Roles and Application of Project Management Concepts

Roles and Application of Project Management Concepts
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Even if project management appears new to most individuals, it plays a vital role in almost all branches of nursing. Education track, just like other branches, take in the constituents of the nursing process, which comprises evaluation, planning, implementation as well as assessment. The four elements are incorporated into the projects that are run or initiated by nursing informatics specialists and are not only aimed to benefit the patients but also other individuals working in the sector including the nurses (Gallagher, 2012). In addition to that are other applications in education track. Characteristically, project management concepts can also be used in an academic setting when developing a graduate practicum that should be planned, designed and effected before students graduate.
Apart from that is the evaluation of the learning management system, a role that cannot be achieved without nursing informatics as well as the concepts of project management. Nursing informatics and project management concepts are crucial when evaluating gaps in student’s needs and when developing recommendations for graduate nurses (Sipes, 2016). Similarly, assessment of projects and programs in nursing academic settings to ascertain their quality rely on project management. Moreover, many changes and improvements must be made not only in the academic context of nursing but also in the healthcare sector as a whole, given the rate at which technology is evolving (Sipes, 2016).

To successfully make these changes and improvements, nurse informatics and project management concepts must come in. To conclude, project management is not only essential in nursing education but also in many areas of healthcare. This is because it impacts anything related to nursing informatics and provides a framework for organizations in the four mentioned areas. Thus, project management concepts are applicable in a nursing academic setting since administrative, managerial and leadership functions cannot be achieved without the concepts.
References
Gallagher, T. (2012). The Role of Informatics in Project Management. HIMSS (Clinical Informatics Insights). Available at: http://www.himss.org/news/role-informatics-project-management [Accessed 26 May 2018].
Sipes, C. (2016, July). Project Management: Essential Skill of Nurse Informaticists. In Nursing Informatics (pp. 252-256).