Describe the context of your interview—where and how the interview took place, why you selected this individual, and how you believe this individual meets the requirements for this Assignment.
Describe the role and functions of the individual within the context of the individual’s organizational structure and for project management.
Synthesize insights on how project scope, budget, risk management, and team building are addressed in the interviewee’s organization.
Compare the insights you synthesized from your interview with information from project management literature about project scope, budget, risk management, and team building. Be sure that the comparisons you make are clear to the reader.
Explain how your insights into these aspects of project management will impact your ability to successfully manage health care information technology projects. Include any tips the individual described for managing a successful project.

Task Dependencies
Inserting an intravenous (IV) line is a multi-step process. Before attempting to find a suitable vein, nurses must gather the appropriate materials (tourniquet, catheter, IV tubing, etc.). Before puncturing a patient’s vein, nurses must first find one that is suitable. This process illustrates the project management principle of task dependencies. Each task in the process depends upon the previous one’s completion in order to begin.
Once a project’s scope has been defined and its work breakdown structure created, the next step is to generate a detailed and precise schedule for all activities in the project. This schedule allows for monitoring the project’s progress and provides a strategy for mitigating risk during the project’s life cycle. The identification of the relationships (dependencies) between the tasks in a health information technology project is critical as you determine a project timeline.
In this Discussion, you construct a brief example of a health information technology project that illustrates three of the four types of dependencies. In addition, you assess the importance of accurately identifying dependencies in a project timeline.
To prepare:
Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on identifying dependencies and sequencing activities.Bring to mind a health information technology project on which to focus for this Discussion. Note: You will use this same project idea to complete this week’s Assignment.Consider the tasks necessary to complete the project you selected.Think about the relationship between the tasks (i.e., the dependencies).Reflect on why it is important to accurately identify the dependencies in a project timeline.
Post by tomorrow 10/11/16 a minimum of 550 words essay in APA format and at least 3 references, which addresses the level one headings as numbered below:
1) An example that illustrates dependencies, or relationships, between tasks in a health information technology project timeline. Include at least three of the four types of dependencies between tasks in the example.
2) Assess the importance of accurately identifying dependencies in a project timeline.
Required Readings
Coplan, S., & Masuda, D. (2011). Project management for healthcare information technology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Chapter 3, “Project Management”
“Time Management” (pp. 59–68)
This section of Chapter 3 focuses on how project managers may plan and control a project schedule to complete a project in a given timeframe. The chapter explains the various aspects of tasks, resources, and scheduling that are necessary for effective time management.
Project Management Institute. (2013). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide) (5th ed.). Newtown Square, PA: Author.
Chapter 6 “Project Time Management” (pp. 141–192)
This chapter provides an overview of processes that can be used to manage a project so that it is completed on time: defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity resources, estimating activity durations, developing a schedule, and controlling a schedule.

Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk Management, and Team Building
Part 2 of the Individual Project focuses on the scope of a project, budgeting issues, risk management, and team building. If conducting an interview, the interviewee may be from the same organization as your last interview and should have managed a project for the organization. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about a health care information technology project’s scope, budget, risk management, and team building activities.
Interview
To prepare:
Review the Individual Project Overview document, located in this week’s Learning Resources. Pay particular attention to the questions you might ask in your interview.
Locate a professional who manages or works on special projects in health care and is willing to speak about his or her experience regarding scope of a project, budget, risk management, and team building.
If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community who has managed a project for an organization and can speak to those topics. The organization can be a volunteer service group, a faith-based group, a business, or another that meets your needs. The goal is to find an individual who has been in charge of a project important to the organization.
Review the topics and questions in the Individual Project Overview document that should be addressed in your interview.
Think about other related questions you might have for the interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.
Topics and Questions:
Remember that you will need to adapt your questions to the individual, setting, and
projects. You are not required to ask these specific questions, but you are required to
address the topics listed below (Note: If the interviewee cannot address a topic, conduct
a literature search to find scholarly information or research on that topic).
Scope
 How does a project manager limit the scope of a project?
 How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?
Budget
 How are costs managed during a project?
 If all resources are not available to a project when needed, how do you handle
resource problems?
Risk Management
 How are potential risks to the project determined?
 How are these risks mitigated?
 Think of a major crisis you’ve faced in project management. How did you handle
it?
 What is one example of a tough decision you had to make in a project
management role?
Team Building
 How do you obtain the members of a project team? How do you “sell” the project
to a team?
 Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk Management, and Team Building
Part 2 of the Individual Project focuses on the scope of a project, budgeting issues, risk management, and team building. If conducting an interview, the interviewee may be from the same organization as your last interview and should have managed a project for the organization. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about a health care information technology project’s scope, budget, risk management, and team building activities.
Interview
To prepare:
Review the Individual Project Overview document, located in this week’s Learning Resources. Pay particular attention to the questions you might ask in your interview.
Locate a professional who manages or works on special projects in health care and is willing to speak about his or her experience regarding scope of a project, budget, risk management, and team building.
If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community who has managed a project for an organization and can speak to those topics. The organization can be a volunteer service group, a faith-based group, a business, or another that meets your needs. The goal is to find an individual who has been in charge of a project important to the organization.
Review the topics and questions in the Individual Project Overview document that should be addressed in your interview.
Think about other related questions you might have for the interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.
Topics and Questions:
Remember that you will need to adapt your questions to the individual, setting, and
projects. You are not required to ask these specific questions, but you are required to
address the topics listed below (Note: If the interviewee cannot address a topic, conduct
a literature search to find scholarly information or research on that topic).
Scope
 How does a project manager limit the scope of a project?
 How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?
Budget
 How are costs managed during a project?
 If all resources are not available to a project when needed, how do you handle
resource problems?
Risk Management
 How are potential risks to the project determined?
 How are these risks mitigated?
 Think of a major crisis you’ve faced in project management. How did you handle
it?
 What is one example of a tough decision you had to make in a project
management role?
Team Building
 How do you obtain the members of a project team? How do you “sell” the project
to a team?
 Explain how you operate within this organization to facilitate project success.
 Can you give me an example of your project management leadership activities
regarding a project team problem?
 If you have a team member who is not meeting agreed-to commitments, what do
you do? How do you handle unproductive team members? How do you motivate
team members who are burned out or bored?
Additional questions and insights are encouraged.
 Can you give me an example of your project management leadership activities
regarding a project team problem?
 If you have a team member who is not meeting agreed-to commitments, what do
you do? How do you handle unproductive team members? How do you motivate
team members who are burned out or bored?
Additional questions and insights are encouraged.

Okay, I’m a DNP student. my Captsone is a Nurse driven protocol on pressure ulcer.
Here are suggestions for my first article. its suppose to be a literature review and it should also correspond to my captsone1. Is there a knowledge gap in ADN prepared nurses vs BSN prepared Nurses on the intervention/ treatment on pressure ulcer?2. Is there a translation gap of knowledge into practice for recently graduate nurses?3. What does evidence say are the best interventions/treatment for pressure ulcers?4. What are the different dressing foams and which ones have shown to be more effective and also cost effective.
This is my project and you should use it as a guide after you have selected one of the questions above. My project will be on 5South. Take time to read and understand
one of my main significant findings is that at st joesph mercy (clinical site) was that they recently opened several new units as they expand the hospital. With the new units they mostly hired graduated nurses with little or none working experience. Most of the nurses are associate prepared nurses not BSN prepared nurses. The units that had the highest incidence of pressure ulcers were the recently opened units, graduate nurses and most of them were ADN prepared.
I’m going to carry out the project on 5south which is one of the recently opened unit with graduate nurses. The nurses where asked to take an online test on pressure ulcer and the passing rate was average 65-70%. The score was noted poorly on the intervention section. Most nurses did not know what intervention was appropriate for what stage, they did not understand functions of the mepilex dressing foams and the different foams/soaps/resources available for use in the treatment of pressure ulcer.