NR631 Week 7 and 8 Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience I Assignment

NR631 Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience I

Week 7 Assignment

Risk Management and Human Resource Management Plans

Purpose

The process of project management has five phases: (1) design and initiation, which you just completed; (2) finalizing your plan before implementation, which you will do now; (3) implementation; (4) monitor and control; and finally, (5) evaluation and lessons learned, as well as knowledge transfer.

I recently learned about nurse that didn’t follow the standards of professional accountability when it came to medication administration and the out come resulted in death of the patient and much pain and suffering for that family after the loss of their family member. The nurse should have followed her 5 rights to medication administration. Right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time. In this instance this nurse overrode the pyxis and pulled vecuronium when she was supposed to pull versed. This mistake could have been prevented if the nurse followed the standards of professional accountability when it comes to patient safety and medication administration safety checks. Nurses are given great responsibility when it comes to caring for the lives of others, the accountability that the general public places in nurses is so great that nurses must always follow the standard of professional accountability in their day to day work in order to create a safe practice that becomes their second nature. Yes, the system that is in place could often times fail a nurse resulting in a sentinel event although, as a licensed nurse it is imperative to fall back on always using safe patient standards no matter where you work in order to protect patient safety and the RN license.

During Phase 2 (finalizing the project plan), you will continue to create the tools and documents you will need when you implement your project as the project manager in Phase 3.

Week 4: Communications Plan

Week 5: Deliverables and Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

Week 6: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Gantt Chart

Week 7: Risk Management and Human Resource Management Plans

In this assignment, students document, track, and manage a project’s risks and use of human resources. The risk management will be accomplished through the use of a Risk Register chart.

Using the Risk Register is a way to identify, document, and manage all the risks associated with a project. The chart details provide an easy way to scan for the level of risk, status, potential responses, and who is responsible for the risk, in addition to the project manager or other details needed to manage the risk. This is a great way to keep everyone informed when this document is presented at the weekly team meetings and in communication with all stakeholders.

Another key tool is called the responsible, accountable, consulted, informed (RACI) chart, which helps you identify who is responsible for, accountable for, consulted on, or informed about each major project task. The RACI chart will help manage and track use of human resources; this facilitates monitoring and control and provides one means of communication. It documents and makes clear who is responsible for bringing the task to completion, on time, and on budget.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes (CO’s):

CO 1: Apply evidence-based leadership skills and concepts in the planning of an executive-level practice change project. (PO 4,)

CO 2: Develop an evidence-based foundation to lead organizational change using current knowledge, standards of practice, and research from current literature. (PO 4,5)

Requirements

Complete the Risk Register and RACI documents for your project. Attach them as appendices to a professional, scholarly paper.

Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations must be consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the current edition of the APA manual.

Preparing the paper

All project risks must be identified and added to your Risk Register following the example. Attach them as appendices to a professional, scholarly paper.

The RACI chart must provide the responsibility, accountability, consulted, or informed status for each member of the team for all major project tasks following the RACI example. Attach them as appendices to a professional, scholarly paper.

Ideas and information from professional sources must be cited correctly using the current edition of the APA manual.

Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations must be consistent with formal academic writing.

NR631 Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience I

Week 8 Assignment

CGE Project Portfolio – Part 1

Purpose

This assignment allows the student to assemble their CGE portfolio with the project management components and activities completed to this point. This assignment will be built upon at the conclusion of the CGE II course to create a complete portfolio.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes (COs):

CO 1: Apply evidence-based leadership skills and concepts in the planning of an executive-level practice change project. (PO 4, 5)

CO 2: Develop an evidence-based foundation to lead organizational change using current knowledge, standards of practice, and research from current literature. (PO 4, 5)

CO 3: Exemplify professional values and scholarship that support the role of a student in a practicum setting during the planning phases of a practice change project. (PO 4)

CO 4: Apply evidence-based fiscal principles that contribute to the creation of a caring environment characterized by high quality, safe, patient-centered care (PO 1, 2, 4, 5)

CO 5: Apply an evidence-based change theory to a project that results in practice change and positive organizational outcomes (PO 1, 2, 5)

CO 6: Assess personal level of nurse executive competencies (PO 3)

Requirements

Complete the portfolio.

Elements of Portfolio

The student is responsible for the development of a CGE portfolio that includes the following elements in the following order.

Project PICOT question

Abstract summary of project topic (approximately 500 words)

Literature review (may be copied and pasted from the Week 3 assignment with revisions as necessary)

Reflection on Course Outcome (CO) achievement

List each CO as a heading in proper APA format.

For each CO, provide a reflective summary of how you feel you have progressed in meeting this outcome through the resources and activities of NR631.

Scholarly application sections of the following (in order) project management tools (may be copied and pasted from those assignments with revisions as necessary)

Project Charter (Week 2)

Project Scope (Week 2)

Communication Plan (Week 4)

Deliverables and CSF (Week 5)

Work Breakdown Structure (Week 6)

Gantt Chart (Week 6)

RACI (Week 7)

Risk Register (Week 7)

The following documents included as separate appendices in the following order

Learning Agreement

Signed (verified) by both student and mentor

Reflective summary of progress through the end of CGE I of progress toward that goal

Signed CGE activity log with a minimum of 72 hours