Identify the project team (by roles) and explain how you would incorporate the nurse informaticist in the project team.

The project team has three members. The first member is a project manager who would be responsible for coaching the project team through the project life cycle, coordinating with the organization’s management, and ensuring the overall success of the implementation to include meeting deadlines and requirements such as performance and function. In addition, this individual links the implementation phases (planning, design, development, implementation, and testing phases) so that they run seamlessly and are able to communicate. The second member is a training analyst who is responsible for linking the concepts and ideas that are presented as the training requirements. The expertise required of the training analyst is the technical knowledge of continuous training applications. The role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to relay information to others and elicit their needs, and analytical skills. This individual should understand that medication administration needs of the organization and should have a clinical background (Bemker & Schreiner, 2017). The final member is a nurse informaticist who will be responsible for managing all data needs of the project. This will include identifying the project’s data needs in terms of which variables inform on medication errors. In addition, this individual will be responsible for evaluating the project data and communicating the results to the project leader and other stakeholders with a focus on noting implications for the organization (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018).

References

Bemker, M., & Schreiner, B. (Eds.) (2017). The DNP Degree & Capstone Project: A Practical Guide. DEStech Publications, Inc.

Harris, J., Roussel, L., Thomas, P., & Dearman, P. (2016). Project Planning & Management: A Guide for Nurses and Interprofessional Teams. Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC.

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Jones and Bartlett Learning.