Question

Who should be included as members of the project team, key stakeholders, and project sponsors for a clinical project in a physician's office or hospital (you can pick the healthcare setting)? Support your choices with a rationale and/or citations.

Compose 250-400 words posting that adequately answers the discussion question

Answer 1

Members of the project team:

• Physicians
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Discharge planners and
• Others representing areas of focus (e.g., inpatient units, outpatient clinics, procedural areas).
• Representatives from information systems
• The emergency department
• And patient safety
• Quality departments.
• Patients

Rationale: The project team members play an integral role in the development of a project. When assembling this team, it is important to include individuals with actual knowledge. Team should be comprised of multidisciplinary members with a strong knowledge of current workflow, recognition of the problem, and buy-in for improvement.

Members of the key stakeholders:

Engagement of these key stakeholders is important to gain facility-wide support for the project.

• Managers or a director that oversee frontline staff to ensure final design is carried out.
• Department chiefs, chairs, and clinical program leaders overseeing physician participation in the design and implementation.
• Leaders from medical records to ensure forms and documentation are consistent with hospital policies.
• Individuals overseeing quality, licensure, and accreditation to ensure that the process meets regulatory requirements.
• Frontline staff, quality committees, patients, etc. that may require periodic communication and progress reports in preparation for implementation.

Members of the project sponsors:

Leader(s) from various disciplines such as the

• pharmacy director
• nursing director
• hospitalists
• department chiefs
• director of information systems
• chair of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee, etc.

Rationale:

• Provide support for a timely and successful implementation.
• Provide insights from the perspective of the practices they represent.
• Remove discipline-specific barriers.
• Approve final recommendations.