HCS 446 Wk 1 Individual Assignment Floorplan Design Tool Approval

In this course, you are required to design a floor plan for a health care facility. This will include designing the layout of rooms within the facility as well as adding environmental, regulatory, and IT elements within the rooms you design.

Review the Facility Planning Guide to familiarize yourself with the requirements of the project.

 Research software programs you can use to create a floor plan, and choose one (do pay attention to possible costs, some programs are “free to preview” but are not free for the entire 5 weeks of the course). It is acceptable to use Microsoft programs (Excel or powerpoint) as an option.

For this project, you may use the program of your choice to complete the floor plan. Some programs to consider are Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Visio®, Publisher®, Excel®, or online floor plan programs such as Edraw, SmartDraw, Gliffy, and Lucidchart. Your faculty member will need to approve your choice, since he or she must be able to view your project in order to grade it. It is important to note that the purpose of this project is not to be an expert at creating a facility using your chosen program, but rather to ensure the concepts learned in this course can be applied to the facility design principles. Your use of the floor planning program is meant to enhance your learning of the course and program concepts.

Write a brief explanation as to why you chose the program and why it is the best choice for this assignment. Include details on how the faculty member will be able to access your project. Do include a title page, in addition to an APA formatted page with one paragraph minimum required (no reference required).

Submit your assignment.