Project Practicum: Creating a Clinical Summary Screen for Women and BabiesAdopting clinical information systems is one way healthcare organizations they are striving to improve patient safety, provide a means to exemplify regulatory compliance, and facilitate the exchange of patient information among healthcare providers (Kirkley & Stein, 2004; Nadzam, 2009). To accomplish this goal, Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) recently implemented a new CPOE/clinical documentation system. One of the goals of the new system was to provide bedside clinicians with a standardized electronic tool, known as the Clinical Summary, for bedside handover reporting. Soon after go-live, it was identified that the Standard Nursing Clinical Summary did not meet the specialized reporting needs of nurses in the Women's and Newborns divisions. As a result, a request to improve the application was submitted. The objective of this project is to synthesize the knowledge gained during this Master's program to initiate, plan and execute changes to the current clinical documentation system to provide a standardized clinical summary review screen to meet the specialized handover reporting needs of nurses on the Women's and Newborns divisions of the BJH. This document includes project objectives, a review of evidence-based supporting literature, project methodology, formative and summative evaluation criteria, and a graphical timeline with narrative description for the women and newborns clinical synthesis project. Project Objectives The initiation phase of a project is not complete without a clearly defined objective and realistic, measurable objectives that describe the business benefits expected to be delivered upon completion of a project (Laureate Educatio...... middle of paper ...... retained from my preceptor, instructor, and peer feedback on the final results of my project course. This summary evaluation will serve as lessons learned to improve my performance in future information technology projects of project practical experience is the initial step in addressing a gap identified in the new CPOE/ clinical documentation system implemented last year at the medical center where I work Using standardized project management tools, I presented the objectives of the project, the overall methodology of the project and the formative and summative evaluation criteria. To further describe this project plan, a graphical timeline is shown in Figure 1. A narrative explanation of the timeline is included in the appendix. Finally, this project plan is supported by academic and peer-reviewed literature.