NURS 656 How is organizational culture and the SIPOC tool utilized in project planning?

Week
1 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

Review the major tenets of the HIMSS
position paper Transforming Nursing Practice Through Technology and Informatics
by clicking on the link here or in the required resources for this week.
Contrast it to a healthcare setting familiar to you. Describe your
organization’s status in regards to the position paper

Discussion
Prompt 2

Nursing informatics is dynamic and
continues to evolve over time. What information technology (e.g., bar coding,
EHR, mobile devices) have you witnessed that positively affected and supported
safe patient care? Share specific examples and explain why and how you feel
they have supported patient safety.

Week
2 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

How is organizational culture and the SIPOC
tool utilized in project planning? Describe the importance of understanding the
strategic vision and alignment of the organization where the system change
occurs and how this affects information technology implementation.

Discussion
Prompt 2

State two major theories and models
underpinning informatics and apply one of the theories to a clinical system
problem in a healthcare organization. Justify your choice of this theory to the
selected problem.

Week
3 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

Think about the Systems Life Cycle Scenario
Activity you completed. Describe how clinical nurse experts assigned to an IT
team selecting and implementing an EHR for a healthcare organization might
address the issues of user experience and usability. Explain the importance of
usability testing in the adoption of health information technology (HIT) and
provide an example of HIT best practices.

Discussion
Prompt 2

Select a usability questionnaire of your
choice from the web link below, and measure your interaction with the newest
HIT system or device in your clinical practice. Are you surprised by this
usability score? Why or why not?

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Usability_and_user_experience_surveys

Week
4 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

Discuss an example of a project that did
not have a clear problem statement, and include information on how the problem
statement could have been more effective. (You can refer to projects that you
have observed in committees and performance improvement projects if you do not
have personal experience.)

Discussion
Prompt 2

Identify policy and standards of a
healthcare organization, and identify the governing licensing and accrediting
bodies and their judicial relationship with that healthcare organization.
Describe legitimate consequences and/or negative actions if these policies and
standards are not accomplished by the healthcare organization. Remember to
consider external licensing and accreditation organizations as well as the
standing healthcare organization’s own internal policies.

Week
5 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

Discuss how to apply two of the identified
EBP into the Requirements Phase II of your identified clinical IT problem.
Create and share high-level project goals within the system life cycle using
the SMART technique to develop them.

Discussion
Prompt 2

Discuss how dashboards contribute to the
success of good project management and how you will incorporate it into your
current project. Note if it creates efficiency or redundancy in your actions
and its overall effect on the project progress.

Week
6 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

Compare and contrast the scope statement
and the statement of work.

Discussion
Prompt 2

In regards to your chosen HIT project, what
barriers do you anticipate the project manager will face trying to meet the requirements
for the meaningful use stage? Bullet your responses and prioritize them in
order of importance, explaining your rationale.

Week
7 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

After reviewing the required resources this
week on quality measures, discuss a quality outcome measure that you could
apply to your HIT project. Be specific on how you would determine the success
or failure of the outcome with the implementation of the tool.

Discussion
Prompt 2

Discuss the importance of a well-defined
project timeline and the risks of not having a project timeline.

Week
8 discussion

Discussion
Prompt 1

Apply Rogers’ theory of innovation and
discuss the role as a clinical leader with a strong user voice when new
information technology systems evolve in your healthcare organization.

Discussion
Prompt 2

Describe the benefits link between IT
implementation and tangible and intangible benefits such as patient safety,
cost savings, and time saved experienced by an organization with SLC projects.

Week
1 Health Informatics Technology (HIT) Paper

The purpose of this assignment is to
explore and present a summary of the literature on a selected successful health
informatics technology (HIT) project that focuses on its application, trend, or
issue influencing consumer, clinical, and public health informatics.

Instructions

Perform an online literature search using
the university library and/or Google Scholar to identify three or more
scientific articles addressing a health informatics technology project that has
been successfully completed/implemented.

Write a problem statement related to this
healthcare informatics technology project.

In a three- to four-page paper, summarize
the project/problem while integrating the evidence-based practices surrounding
it.

Provide a list of references in current APA
style.

When choosing your HIT project/problem to
focus on this week, remember that you will use this same project/problem
throughout the course for each upcoming weekly assignment. You will basically
be hypothetically taking this project through all phases of a project charter
as if you were acting as the project manager for its implementation at a
facility. Make sure that you not only choose an HIT project that is meaningful
and interesting to you, but one that you know has been successfully implemented
already and has a substantial amount of research/data associated with it.

Week
2 HIT Gap Analysis Presentation

The purpose of this assignment is to
analyze an issue or topic addressed through a critical gap analysis and further
literature review within health informatics technology (HIT) .

Instructions

Looking at the same literature/HIT project
that you used last week to generate your HIT paper, define at least one major
gap surrounding your informatics topic. Sources for this gap analysis may
include the general media, online literature searches using the university
library and/or Google Scholar, interviews of health practitioners, and
interviews of the general public.

Summarize the gap(s) regarding this topic
in an online presentation.

Use Kaltura to create the presentation. It
should be between seven and ten narrated slides (including a reference slide)
or an approximate equivalent for video.

Review the Getting Started with Kaltura
link in your main menu if you need a refresher on using the tool.

Make sure to provide a list of references
in current APA style.

Week
3 Table and Summary of HIT Gaps

This assignment builds on assignments 1 and
2. The purpose is to synthesize critical gap analysis by proposing creative
solutions for the health informatics/information technology issue.

Instructions

Based on the literature review and major
gap(s) identified in your HIT project for the first two assignments, propose a
creative solution(s) that would resolve the gap(s) and ensure inclusion of
evidenced based practices in the solution. Sources for a proposed solution(s)
may include the general media, online literature searches using the university
library and/or Google Scholar, interviews of health practitioners, developers,
computer scientists, technology experts, and the general public.

Summarize the solution(s) regarding this
topic in a table.

The information integrated from the
literature will be presented via a tabular column similar to the one shown.
Distinct columns will name the discovered gaps, state the evidence-based
practice from the literature, and possible solutions based on this information.

You will also write a two-paragraph summary
below the table stating important takeaways based on the table for your
informatics project.

Provide a list of references in current APA
style.

Identified gap EBP
from the literature Possible solution

Week
4 A3 PM Tool

Creating an A3 will integrate your work
from completed assignments in weeks 1 through 3. A3 serve as mechanisms to
complete a root-cause analysis and scientific thinking related to your project,
while also aligning the interests of stakeholders, users, and departments
throughout the organization by encouraging productive dialogue and helping
people learn from one another.

Instructions

Based on your informatics problem statement
identified in week 1, you will complete an A3. You will complete this
assignment with the application of a structured A3 Problem Solving template.
Access to free A3 templates can be found at the website listed below. Choose
from the The PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) Tracking Form or the A3 Problem
Solving Guide and accompanying template to complete your A3.

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe-lpha/tools-and-resources

The A3 Problem Solving template lays out an
entire plan in a dashboard visual.

It should be visual and extremely concise.

It should tell a story, laid out from upper
left-hand side to lower right, which anyone can understand.

Week
5 Work Breakdown Schedule (WBS) Executive Dashboard

A WBS in project management builds on the
A3 tool and is a deliverable-oriented breakdown of your project into smaller
components. Specifically, it supports your key project deliverable that
organizes your project scope and your team’s work to focus and develop the project
schedule, resource requirements, and costs.

Instructions

Create an executive dashboard utilizing
your completed A3 with development of a work breakdown structure (WBS).

Based on the A3 tool completed in week 4,
develop a WBS using PowerPoint.

Your WBS should reflect how you, the
project manager, plan to manage the project.

Emphasis must be on meeting project
objectives

The larger or more complex the project, the
more levels in the WBS

If work is needed that requires effort or
funding, it should be included in the WBS

It should reflect the total effort and
scope of your project

Refer to your text: Martinelli and
Milosevic, Project Management Toolbox, Chapter 5, Scope Planning and reference
the required resources this week for guidance to build your WBS.

You should submit three separate documents
for this week: Executive Dashboard, Work Breakdown Schedule, and PowerPoint
Summary of WBS.

Week
6 Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, and Customers (SIPOC) Mitigation Plan

In your informatics process improvement
project, the SIPOC tool will summarize the inputs and outputs of one or more
processes in table form. Specifically, the SIPOC identifies project risks and
creates a mitigation plan for your identified informatics project.

Instructions

Create a Suppliers, Inputs, Process,
Outputs, and Customers (SIPOC) Mitigation Plan. The acronym SIPOC forms the
columns of the table.

Incorporate three of the Learning Health
Systems (LHS) core values into the Process, Outputs, and Customer column.

The LHS core values are described in your
week 6 required resources.

Download the SIPOC Template at:

Week
7 Gantt Chart

The Gantt chart is a scheduling tool that
uses bars to represent project activities and to show when the project, and
each activity within the project, starts and ends against a horizontal time
scale. Having a Gantt chart ensures that your project participants have the
necessary time allocated on their calendars and are available to perform their
activities.

Instructions

Based on your informatics problem statement
identified in week 1:

Create a Gantt chart for your project plan
using a template created in Excel. Make sure to include specific and
appropriate performance outcome measures in your Gantt chart. Reference Chapter
6 in Martinelli and the required resources located in this week for guidance.

Separately summarize how the selected
performance measure will assure proper measurement, data collection,
monitoring, and analyzing in your project.

Create a PowerPoint presentation using four
slides.

Slide 1: Introduction slide of the
healthcare informatics project

Slide 2: Copy your Gantt chart (created in
Excel) to a PowerPoint slide

Slide 3: Bulleted summary supporting your
selection of Performance Measurements included in the Gantt chart

Slide 4: NURS 656 How is organizational culture and the SIPOC tool utilized in project planning? References

You will submit three separate documents
this week: Executive Dashboard, Work Breakdown Schedule, and PowerPoint Summary
of WBS, including Gantt Chart

Week
8 HIT Executive Summary and Video Presentation

The purpose of the executive summary is
perhaps the most important section of your healthcare informatics project. It
is usually the first section of a business plan that leadership will read, but
it should be written last. A successful executive summary presents the
highlights of your project and is an opportunity to support clinical and
administrative safe processes.

Instructions

Create an Executive Summary and
Presentation of your HIT project. You will integrate and summarize the work
that you have accomplished over the last seven weeks and present it via an
executive summary and a Kaltura video.

Executive summary

Your written executive summary will be a
maximum of three to four pages and completed in current APA format following
the instructions outlined below.

Your executive summary needs to be
consistent with the full business plan to secure facility leadership support
for this informatics project.

You should include your:

Healthcare mission and vision statements

A brief sketch of your plans and goals

A quick look at your company and its
organization

An outline of your strategy

Highlights of your gathered informationfrom
all weeks of the course

The key to the executive summary is to pick
out the best aspects of every part of your plan. Extract the essence of each
key part and present a highlight reel of your business.

What is the informatics problem and how
does it fit into your healthcare organization?

You will need to explain why your idea has
merit and how it can solve a common problem by making things easier, faster, or
cheaper for your healthcare organization. Be sure to include your problem
statement in week 1, and integrate and summarize the gap analysis and gap
solution in weeks 2 and 3 for this section. Include best practices applied from
the literature. Demonstrate that there is a problem and why it needs to be
addressed in reference to patient safety.

What did your collection of information
with the A3 PM, WBS, and SIPOC tools reveal?

Include an image of one of the more
relevant tools as an image in this section. Summarize the effects of these
tools on the informatics project and be sure to include a focus on the user and
current usability issues that are now present in the health information
technology?

How much will it cost, and how much
financing are you seeking?

Decide if this is an internal solution
(using IT in the healthcare organization) or an external solution (buying
software from a vendor). Provide a short explanation of how you will use any
financing you seek.

What are the immediate and future
recommendations?

The summary is the place to put your best
foot forward to speak about immediate recommendations to leadership. Paint a
realistic and factual portrait of a compelling opportunity for the healthcare
organization and outline the risks inherent in it.

Presentation

Create a Kaltura video introducing your
informatics project to facility leadership following the outline from the
executive summary above.

Your Kaltura video presentation should be a
maximum of four to five minutes long, not to exceed 5 minutes.

Review the Getting Started with Kaltura
link in your main menu if you need a refresher on using the tool.

Week 1 quiz

Question 1 The project manager’s and
nurse’s role are to diligently assess the healthcare system and consider how to
improve its structure and processes to achieve:

Satisfying the requirements of the
organization’s stakeholders

More favorable patient outcomes in an
efficient and effective manner

New clinical practice guidelines

A promotion and substantial pay raise

Question 2 The three sciences that make up
nursing informatics are:

Nursing, clinical, and computer sciences

Information, computer, and nursing sciences

Medical, information, and computer sciences

Engineer, nursing, and clinical science

Question 3 Which is the correct sequence of
the informatics continuum?

Wisdom to data to knowledge to information

Data to information to knowledge to wisdom

Wisdom to data to information to knowledge

Knowledge to information to data to wisdom

Question 4 Six Sigma is a five-step program
that supports quality improvement and outcomes in health care. Which is the
first step?

Defining the project goals

Improving the process

Analyzing the current problems

Making a change and managing the new
process

Measuring current processes

Question 5 Health information management
includes:

Tools of computers, hardware, software,
networking, programming, and data storage

Project management, teams, stakeholders,
and timelines of different activities

Records, coding, documentation, policy,
guidelines, administration, and compliance

Technology tools and information systems in
a healthcare setting

Week 2 quiz

Question 1 SIPOC is short for suppliers,
inputs, process, outputs, and customers and is used as a:

High-level process map

Project charter

Stakeholder notification tool

Goals Grid

Question 2 The PM toolbox: (Select all that
apply.)

Is issued to all nurse project managers

Helps to establish and maintain alignment
among business strategy, project strategy, and project execution outcomes

Increases efficiency of the project players

Provides the right information to support
problem-solving and decision-making processes

Question 3 What are three major steps, each
including several substeps, in constructing and adapting a PM toolbox for
specific projects?

Secure a strategic alignment, customize the
PM toolbox, and improve continuously

Secure the role of project manager, pick a
team, and pick a project

Define, analyze, and measure the project
goals

Complete the data to information to
knowledge continuum

Question 4 One of the most prominent
theories in management today is:

Nursing

Information

Computer

Systems

Question 5 The Goals Grid is a tool for:

Showing the quickest time possible for
project completion

Users to analyze the system problem

Defining the system problem

Setting and clarifying goals

week 5 quiz

Question 1

The acronym SWOT stands for:

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
threats

System, workload, open source, time

Software, Wi-Fi strength, object oriented,
tasks

Software, Windows, Open Tracker,
three-tiered model

Question 2

High-level requirements

Actionable daily items

Vendor availability

Short-term goals

Question 3

The best use for Clinical Decision Support
Systems (CDSS) is:

Ensuring CDSS is separate from the CPOE
(computerized physician order entry)

Creating information supported by evidence
at the patient point of care

Creating an alert tip sheet

Generating a daily analysis of nursing
workload

Question 4 Activating a specific response
to the gap ensures:

Listing the gap on the project to-do list

Recognition and a choice to leave the gap
or act on it

Specific organizational objectives and
performance metrics are accomplished

Reducing or eliminating the project
execution gap

Question 5 Which step addresses gaps found
in project management?

Create a column chart

Perfective maintenance

Define specific action to respond to the
gap

Align to the strategic goals

Week 6 quiz

Question 1

During which phase should the project
manager document the current process and any work-around used in the business
process?

Analysis

Specification

Brainstorm

Elicitation

Question 2

Which definition below describes the gap
analysis term “requirements elicitation”?

Comprehensive understanding of the
project’s business need

Assessing, negotiating, and ensuring
requirements are correct

Detailed document describing the specific
requirements

Verify the project is meeting the stated
requirements

Question 3 As a new project manager, you
know that completing a comprehensive requirement collection will allow you to:

Identify stakeholders

Recognize the system dysfunction

Identify business needs

Identify unknown organizational resources

Question 4

Which usability tenet supports designing a
usable healthcare information system that supports “the capacity to find,
process, and understand basic health information”?

Digital Divide

Population Needs

Measure and Manage

Build community

Speak the Language

Question 5

Fix system boundaries:

Elicit a list of requirements from all
users impacted by the project

Detail how the project relates to the
current organizational processes including a well-defined project scope

Identify everyone who has a direct or
influential connection to this project

Ensure an understanding of the issues with
the current healthcare system

Week 7 quiz

Question 1 The critical path method
diagram:

Captures all the project action items
against the scheduled timeline

Efficiently captures time on a time
sensitive and large scale project

Assesses action items and determines the
best method to accomplish them

Writes the big goals into the project time
line and notes project risk

Question 2 What is the most effective schedule
development tool for capturing the relationship of action items to the
timeline?

GANTT chart

Time-scaled diagram

Milestone

Critical path method diagram

Question 3

The goal of scheduling during the early
phase of project management seeks is to:

Monitor, control, and assess cost
restrictions

Summarize the project, create project
goals, and define the scope of the project

Track the project, determine personnel
payments, and allocate resources

Allocate resources, monitor, control, and
track the project

Question 4

By developing a project schedule, a project
manager is planning the:

Outcomes of the project

Stakeholder management

Budget needs of the project

Time element of the project

Question 5

Which activity does the project manager use
when controlling in a project? (Select all that apply.)

Sequence

Review

Track

Revise

Build

Week 8 quiz

Question 1

Lack of goal achievement relative to
patient safety and quality improvement often points to underlying EHR _______________issues.

Utilization

Hardware

Management

Cost

Question 2

What action is best done during the active
project phase of the stakeholder management plan?

Measure stakeholder goals at the end of the
project

Turn key stakeholders into advocates for
project success

Complete action items in a timely manner

Align key stakeholders to the goals of the
project

Unsaved change Moving to the next question
prevents changes to this answer.

Question 3

The critical stakeholder management
documents include: (Select all that apply.)

Stakeholder management process

Roles and responsibility

Creating automated links with the CDC

Computer Decision Support System

Tools

Question 4

In which order does the stakeholder
management plan occur?

Identify, strategize, use the plan,
analyze, benefits

Analyze, identify, strategize, use the
plan, benefits

Identify, analyze, strategize, use the
plan, benefits

Benefits, strategize, analyze, use the plan,
identify

Question 5

Which maintenance phase is the result of an
urgent or emergency condition that needs immediate attention?

Corrective

Predictive

Adaptive

Perfective

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NURS 656 How is organizational culture and the SIPOC tool utilized in project planning? Grading Rubric

Performance Category	100% or highest level of performance 100% 16 points	Very good or high level of performance 88% 14 points	Acceptable level of performance 81% 13 points	Inadequate demonstration of expectations 68% 11 points	Deficient level of performance 56% 9 points	Failing level of performance 55% or less 0 points
Total Points Possible= 50	16 Points	14 Points	13 Points	11 Points	9 Points	0 Points
Scholarliness Demonstrates achievement of scholarly inquiry for professional and academic topics.	Presentation of information was exceptional and included all of the following elements: Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s). Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts. Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.* Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.	Presentation of information was good, but was superficial in places and included all of the following elements: Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s). Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts. Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.* Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.	Presentation of information was minimally demonstrated in all of the following elements: Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s). Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts. Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.* Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.	Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in one of the following elements: Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s). Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts. Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.* Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.	Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in two of the following elements: Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s). Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts. Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.* Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.	Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in three or more of the following elements Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s). Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts. Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.* Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information
	16 Points	14 Points	13 Points	11 Points	9 Points	0 Points
Application of Course Knowledge Demonstrate the ability to analyze and apply principles, knowledge and information learned in the outside readings and relate them to real-life professional situations	Presentation of information was exceptional and included all of the following elements: Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic. Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience. Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.	Presentation of information was good, but was superficial in places and included all of the following elements: Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic. Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience. Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.	Presentation of information was minimally demonstrated in the all of the following elements: Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic. Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience. Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.	Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in one of the following elements: Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic. Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from and scholarly resources to a professional experience. Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.	Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in two of the following elements: Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic. Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience. Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.	Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in three of the following elements Applies principles, knowledge and information and scholarly resources to the required topic. Applies facts, principles or concepts learned scholarly resources to a professional experience. Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
	10 Points	9 Points			6 Points	0 Points
Interactive Dialogue Initial post should be a minimum of 300 words (references do not count toward word count) The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each (references do not count toward word count) Responses are substantive and relate to the topic.	Demonstrated all of the following: Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words. The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each. Responses are substantive Responses are related to the topic of discussion.	Demonstrated 3 of the following: Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words. The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each. Responses are substantive Responses are related to the topic of discussion.			Demonstrated 2 of the following: Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words. The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each. Responses are substantive Responses are related to the topic of discussion.	Demonstrated 1 or less of the following: Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words. The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each. Responses are substantive Responses are related to the topic of discussion.
	8 Points	7 Points	6 Points	5 Points	4 Points	0 Points
Grammar, Syntax, APA Points deducted for improper grammar, syntax and APA style of writing. The source of information is the APA Manual 6th Edition Error is defined to be a unique APA error. Same type of error is only counted as one error.	The following was present: 0-3 errors in APA format AND Responses have 0-3 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors AND Writing style is generally clear, focused on topic,and facilitates communication.	The following was present: 4-6 errors in APA format. AND/OR Responses have 4-5 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors AND/OR Writing style is somewhat focused on topic.	The following was present: 7-9 errors in APA format. AND/OR Responses have 6-7 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors AND/OR Writing style is slightly focused on topic making discussion difficult to understand.	The following was present: 10- 12 errors in APA format AND/OR Responses have 8-9 grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors AND/OR Writing style is not focused on topic, making discussion difficult to understand.	The following was present: 13 – 15 errors in APA format AND/OR Responses have 8-10 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors AND/OR Writing style is not focused on topic, making discussion difficult to understand. AND/OR The student continues to make repeated mistakes in any of the above areas after written correction by the instructor.	The following was present: 16 to greater errors in APA format. AND/OR Responses have more than 10 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. AND/OR Writing style does not facilitate communication
	0 Points Deducted					5 Points Lost
Participation Requirements	Demonstrated the following: Initial, peer, and faculty postings were made on 3 separate days					Failed to demonstrate the following: Initial, peer, and faculty postings were made on 3 separate days
	0 Points Lost					5 Points Lost
Due Date Requirements	Demonstrated all of the following: The initial posting to the graded threaded discussion topic is posted within the course no later than Wednesday, 11:59 pm MT. A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT.					Demonstrates one or less of the following. The initial posting to the graded threaded discussion topic is posted within the course no later than Wednesday, 11:59 pm MT. A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT.