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Liberty's catalog presents NURS 718 as a survey of informatics applications and current trends in care delivery across settings. The course examines how information systems and patient care technology change care for individuals, at-risk groups and communities, through evidence-based practice, education, health promotion, workflow and communication.

Week one opens with Tan and Payton, Zaccagnini and White on technology in DNP practice, the checklist, introductions and a 100-point first forum. Module/Week 2 adds a research brief and a technology brief to the reading and asks for Forum 2.

Modules/Weeks 3, 4 and 5 each ask for a case study worth 100, built on Tan and Payton's chapters on systems, data and technology, with two more technology briefs in Module/Week 4.

The final three weeks belong to the HMIS project: Part 1, an introduction, in Module/Week 6 for 100 points; Part 2, planning, in Module/Week 7 for 200; and Part 3, implementation and evaluation, in Module/Week 8 for 200.

The class is organized around the HMIS project, even though it does not start until Module/Week 6. Early on you are asked about your setting and a technology gap you have noticed: a clinic without a patient portal, a hospital weighing remote patient monitoring, a practice struggling with interoperability or a health department that needs better surveillance data. That choice becomes the project's subject.

The early items are then written with the project in mind. Forum 1 and Forum 2 draw on the opening chapters and the briefs; replies to classmates follow their posts. The three case studies, due in Modules/Weeks 3 to 5, answer their own prompts but build the vocabulary and evidence the project will use.

The project's first part presents the setting, the problem and the system proposed. Part 2 plans the selection, the stakeholders, the workflow analysis, the budget logic and the timeline. Part 3 lays out implementation, training, go-live support and evaluation with measures and data sources.

Items land roughly a week early, leaving time to read, ask questions and upload.

NURS 718 is written by a nurse informaticist holding a DNP or PhD who has served on system selection committees, led implementations and measured results after go-live. The HMIS project asks you to do on paper what that person has done in practice.

The writer knows Tan and Payton's framework for health management information systems, the technology chapter of Zaccagnini and White, and the current federal rules, including interoperability rules, certified health IT and telehealth policy.

A second informatics reviewer reads the case studies and all three project parts before delivery. That review checks that the technology described exists and works as claimed, that the plan respects real constraints such as budget and training time, and that the evaluation could be carried out with available data.

Your organization is described by type and size only. If a detail matters, such as which electronic record your organization uses, the writer asks you and keeps the vendor name out of the paper unless you want it in.

A single writer carries the project, so its three parts read as one proposal.

Students get stuck first on the reading, because Tan and Payton approaches health information systems from a management and systems perspective that many clinicians have never studied. The briefs and case studies assume that vocabulary from Module/Week 2.

They get stuck on the case studies when they answer from personal experience alone. The prompts expect the text, current research and an analysis of the technology's effects on care, cost and workflow.

They get stuck on the HMIS project's scope. A project that tries to replace an entire electronic record cannot be planned credibly in three weeks of writing, while one that targets a specific system, such as e-prescribing, telehealth or a population health dashboard, can.

Part 2, worth 200 points, is where most points are lost: plans without stakeholder analysis, workflow mapping, vendor selection criteria or a realistic timeline read as wishes.

Part 3, also 200, loses points when training and evaluation are generic. Measures with no baseline, data source or target leave the professor nothing to grade.

The ideal start is before Module/Week 1, so the project subject is settled while Forum 1 is drafted. Forum 2 follows before Module/Week 2, and each case study a week ahead of Modules/Weeks 3, 4 and 5.

The HMIS project is outlined during Module/Week 4, which lets Part 1 arrive before Module/Week 6, Part 2 before Module/Week 7 and Part 3 early in Module/Week 8. Comments from your professor on each part are folded into the next.

The quote lists two forums, three case studies and three project parts, each with its Module/Week and share of the total. With no exams in the course, nearly the whole grade is included, so the figure is larger than for courses where tests carry much of the weight.

Mid-course starts are priced on the remaining items. Bring any graded case studies or project parts, and the writer continues with your chosen system and setting rather than starting over.

Students who also need NURS 721 or NURS 732 can ask for those plans in the same message.