C855: Nursing Informatics Capstone

C855 is the capstone of WGU's MSN Nursing Informatics program: you finish the system optimization proposal you began in C854.

WGU describes the course as clinical or practice experiences in which students finalize a system optimization proposal paper addressing the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim.

Students plan the final phase of the system development life cycle (SDLC): proposing the processes, methods and tasks for monitoring, maintaining, supporting and evaluating their optimization.

Students often underestimate this phase. Monitoring and evaluation sound simple, yet they decide whether the organization will ever know if the change worked, and evaluators look for concrete measures, owners and timelines.

What C855 Covers

Key Concepts Explained

The Four SDLC Phases in the Proposal

Student proposals in this program typically use four phases: planning and analysis; design and build; implementation and testing; and monitoring, maintenance, support and evaluation. The first three are drafted in C854. C855 adds the fourth and ties the whole paper together.

Evaluation Measures

Good evaluation uses a mix of measures. Process measures show whether staff use the new function. Outcome measures show whether the Triple Aim result moved. Balancing measures check for side effects such as extra documentation time.

Sustaining the Change

Many optimizations fade after launch. Plan who owns the system function, how often reports are reviewed, how user feedback reaches the build team and when the change is formally re-evaluated.

Pulling the Whole Proposal Together

The final paper is read as one document, so it needs a single thread from problem to evaluation. Before submission, check that:

• The problem statement in the introduction is the one your design actually solves.
• The literature review supports the specific change, not just the general topic.
• Implementation and testing describe the same users, units and data named earlier.
• The evaluation measures test the Triple Aim goal you claimed at the start.
• Terminology (system names, unit names, measure names) stays the same throughout.

A short paragraph at the end that summarizes the expected benefits, the main risks and the next decision point helps the reader see the proposal as a plan an organization could act on. Keep it factual: describe expected effects and how they will be checked, rather than promising results.

Typical Tasks and How to Approach Them

Where Students Get Stuck

• Vague evaluation. "Outcomes will be monitored" earns little. State the measure, the data source, the target and the review schedule.
• Inconsistent paper. If the problem changed during C854, the introduction and literature review may no longer match the solution.
• Ignoring evaluator feedback. Comments from C854 often point to issues that resurface in the final paper.
• Missing roles. Every monitoring and support task needs an owner.

Study Tips for C855

• Reread your C854 work before writing anything new.
• Build a measure table: measure, type, data source, target, frequency, owner.
• Use the rubric aspects as headings and check each one off.
• Read the full paper aloud once, start to finish, to catch inconsistencies.
• Keep APA 7th formatting consistent across all sections.

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