Send the exact assignment or rubric from your course of study and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. D157 is WGU’s Managing Resources in an Era of Disruption course. It centers on how a nurse manager plans and justifies an improvement to staffing, supplies, money or time when demand and supply are both unpredictable. Searches like "d157 task 2 assignment example", "D157 sample paper", and "D157 task samples" land on this page.
What D157 is really about
The disruption in the title is not rhetorical. Staffing shortages, supply shortages, contract labor costs and shifting reimbursement have changed what a nurse manager spends the day doing, and D157 is where the program asks leaders to plan against that reality. The course works through human resource management, financial management, supply and materials management, and the tools managers use to keep all three visible: budgets, variance reports, responsibility charts and project plans. The recurring vehicle is a healthcare improvement project that the student initiates and carries through later courses. What an evaluator wants is a project with a specific resource problem at its center, sized honestly and owned by named roles.
Because the project begins here and continues into the capstone, choices made in D157 follow the student for the rest of the program. A problem that is too large, such as fixing turnover across a hospital, cannot be implemented or measured inside the time available. A problem that is too small does not justify a project. The strongest projects sit on one department or service line, target a resource that can be counted, and involve people the student can actually reach. Practice experience schedules, logs and reflections that the program requires are the student's own record and are not written here. The organizations in these samples are composites.
What D157’s tasks ask for
Current versions usually ask for a written project proposal that identifies a resource problem, explains its effect on cost, quality and staff, sets a measurable aim, and lays out how the change would be carried out. Expect to describe stakeholders and their roles, often in a responsibility chart, and to estimate the resources the project itself will consume: staff time, money, supplies and equipment. A timeline is common, as is a section on risks and how you would respond to each. Some versions ask how the project connects to the organization's mission or strategic plan. Evidence is expected wherever you claim the intervention works elsewhere.
Why D157 tasks come back for revision
Proposals come back most often for a problem stated without numbers. Writing that supply costs are high gives the evaluator nothing to judge; stating that the department spent a stated sum over budget on supplies last year, and that a stated share of it was expired or duplicate stock, gives a baseline the aim can be measured against. The second pattern is a responsibility chart in which one person is accountable for everything, which suggests the student has not thought about who really does the work. Budgets that list costs without any savings estimate are returned too. Revision is routine and usually additive.
The D157 drawers
D157 Task 1 improvement project proposal example
In many versions the task is a resource improvement proposal with baseline, aim, roles and budget. On request, free, 24-48h.
D157 Task 2 project risk and resource plan example
Some versions add a follow-on piece planning timeline, risks and the project's own costs. On request, free, 24-48h.
Your course of study shows something else?
Western Governors University revises courses; task counts and deliverables shift between terms. Send what your classroom shows and the desk matches it exactly.
Using a D157 sample the right way
Read a D157 sample for the chain from baseline to aim to measure. Notice that the project's own costs are counted, not just the savings it promises, and that each risk has a response someone can carry out. Then pick your own problem from a department you can reach, since the capstone will ask you to report on it. Send the task instructions and rubric aspects for a custom sample in 24-48h, the first one free.
How these samples are written
Every sample on this board is written the way the custom ones are: the rubric aspects decoded first, a subject-matched writer drafting each aspect visibly, format and originality checked before it ships. WGU revises courses and instruments; a custom request is always written to the aspects in YOUR portal, never from a stale template.
D157 questions, answered
How big should my D157 project be?
Small enough to finish and measure inside the program, large enough to matter. One department, one service line or one process is usually right. If you cannot name the person who would approve the change and the data source that would show whether it worked, the project is probably too large or too vague to carry into the capstone.
What goes in a RACI chart?
Each task of the project down one side, each role across the top, and a letter in each cell: responsible for doing it, accountable for the result, consulted before it happens, or informed afterward. Every task needs exactly one accountable role. Use job titles rather than names, and include yourself, since you are the project lead.
Do I need real budget figures?
You need plausible figures with a stated basis. If your organization's numbers are confidential, build estimates from published prices, wage data or your own counts and say how you got them. The evaluator is judging whether the financial reasoning holds together, not auditing the figures.