• Develop a 6–7-page implementation plan for the initiative you proposed in Assessment 1. Include a budget for material, staffing, and capital costs over the first five years of the initiative, as well as projected earnings. In addition, include a timeline, an organizational impact analysis, and an explanation of the effects of environmental changes on the initiative.
  Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
  SHOW LESSAs a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may be expected to create budgets and implementation plans to ensure that initiatives to take advantage of economic opportunities for the organization are rolled out successfully and can be sustained over multiple years. Additionally, it is important to be able to envision how an initiative could be implemented in different contexts and for different purposes to ensure that the investment remains a viable and positive asset to your organization or care setting.
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  The following articles may be helpful in helping you to create a budget.
  
  • Danna, D. (n.d.). Learning and mastering the operating budget. Retrieved from http://www.strategiesfornursemanagers.com/ce_detail/213520.cfm
  • Pritchard, G. (n.d.). How to develop an operating budget for a nursing unit. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/develop-operating-budget-nursing-unit-79824.html
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• Assessment InstructionsDevelop a thorough implementation plan for the economic initiative you proposed in Assessment 1. Your plan must include a budget for material, staffing, and capital costs over the first five years of the initiative, as well as projected earnings. In addition, include:
  
  • A plan and timeline for rolling out the initiative.
  • An analysis of how the initiative may impact other aspects of the organization or care setting.
  • An explanation how the initiative can remain viable in the face of environmental changes.
  • Sufficient relevant and credible supporting evidence.
  • Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft implementation plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.
    Requirements
    The requirements for your implementation plan, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
  • Create a budget for expected costs and earnings over the first five years of your proposed initiative. 
    • What are the expected material, staffing, and capital costs of your proposed initiative over its first five years?
    • What are the projected earnings for your organization or care setting over the first five years of your economic initiative?
    • How does this budget take into account the findings and feedback you received on your business case?
    • What assumptions are you basing your budget on?
  • Create an implementation plan for your proposed initiative that enables achievement of quality or service improvements in an ethical and culturally equitable way. 
    • Did you create a timeline for the rollout?
    • How will you work with relevant stakeholders to ensure that your economic initiative is implemented successfully and sustained?
    • How will you ensure that the rollout is conducted in an ethical and culturally equitable manner?
    • How will you ensure that the desired quality or service improvements your economic initiative will achieve are on track during and after implementation?
  • Analyze the impact of your proposed initiative, once implemented, on other aspects of your organization or care setting and ways in which negative impacts could be mitigated. 
    • What other aspects of your organization or care setting may be positively or negatively impacted by the implementation of your proposed initiative?
    • How will these other aspects of your organization or care setting be affected? (For example, increased workload on a testing department, borrowing of staff hours from another part of the care setting, or better communication with the community.)
    • How could you mitigate at least some of the negative effects on other aspects of your organization or care setting?
  • Explain your strategies for ensuring that your proposed initiative can remain a viable asset to the organization or care setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces. 
    • What are the environmental risks to your economic initiative?
    • How could your initiative, or aspects of it, still be a viable benefit to your organization or care setting if the environment shifts in unpredictable ways?
    • What strategies would you propose implementing to keep all, or a portion of, your initiative a viable net benefit to your organization or care setting?
  • Justify the relevance and significance of the quantitative and qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used throughout your plan to support your recommendations. 
    • How is the evidence relevant to your organization or care setting?
    • How is the evidence relevant to your proposed economic initiative?
    • How does the evidence illustrate a solution that has been successful in the past?
    • How does the evidence illustrate that a recommendation is the best course of action for your situation and organization or care setting?
  • Write concisely and directly, using active voice. 
    • Proofread your document before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your implementation plan.
  • Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
  • Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
  • Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
  • ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
    Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
  • Format: Format your implementation plan using current APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX]. An APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]is also provided to help you in writing and formatting your implementation plan. Be sure to include: 
    • A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
    • A running head on all pages.
    • Appropriate section headings.
  • Length: Your implementation plan should be 6–7 pages in length, not including the title page and references page.
  • Supporting evidence: Cite 3–5 authoritative and scholarly resources to support your implementation plan. Be sure that your sources include specific economic data.
  • Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, after your work has been evaluated.
    Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your implementation plan to your ePortfolio.
    Competencies Measured
    By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment scoring guide criteria:
  • Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation. 
    • Create a budget for expected costs and earnings over the first five years of a proposed initiative.
    • Analyze the impact of a proposed initiative, once implemented, on other aspects of an organization or care setting and ways in which negative impacts could be mitigated.
  • Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered. 
    • Create an implementation plan for a proposed initiative that enables achievement of quality or service improvements in an ethical and culturally equitable way.
  • Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues. 
    • Justify the relevance and significance of quantitative and qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence used throughout an implementation plan to support recommendations.
  • Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care. 
    •  Explain strategies for ensuring that a proposed economic initiative can remain a viable asset to an organization or care setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.
  • Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards. 
    • Write concisely and directly using active voice.
    • Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics

Create a professional presentation of your evidence-based intervention and change proposal to be disseminated to an interprofessional audience of leaders and stakeholders. Include the intervention, evidence-based literature, objectives, resources needed, anticipated measurable outcomes, and how the intervention would be evaluated. Submit the presentation in LoudCloud for feedback from the instructor.

https://www.homeworkmarket.com/questions/benchmark-capstone-project-change-proposal-19887019

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Assignment Prompt

Infographics are visual representations of information. They can include numbers, text, images, or any combination of the three. Just as in traditional writing assignments, an infographic can take on any of the various rhetorical modes — informative, instructive, descriptive, persuasive, etc. Infographics provide quick way to convey a lot of information. For example, this infographic on Integrating Virtual Clinics conveys interesting data much more concisely than another paragraph inserted here could have:

Students will create an Infographic on the topic of Telehealth. Students should create an infographic that is easily understood by the lay public or general population. The infographic should provide information useful to communicating the “What, Why, When and How” of Telehealth. Students may choose to focus on one or more the following suggested topic areas, however, students may choose their own relevant telehealth topic areas of:

• Telehealth Versus Telemedicine
• Environments or Systems
• Population Health
• Health Promotion and Illness Prevention
• Integrative Health
• Technologies and Innovation
• Provider Access
• Patient Access
• Policy Implications
• Legal Implications
• Clinical Practice Issues
• Education/Training Needs
• Research Implications
• Quality of Care
• Outcome Management

Directions:

1. Students will select a platform (tool) for building their infographic. There are a number of great infographic platforms available online. Many are free, but most require that you do set up an account. Check out Infogr.am, Easelly, Piktochart, and Visme.
2. Create the Infographic using one of the above platforms.
3. Post completed infographic in PDF format to the D2L week four assignment link.
4. Deadline Monday 11/16/2020 

  

Instructions for Answer to 2 Question

1- After Each DQ (question), write down references

2- 300 minimum words for every DQ, you can go up to 800 words but answer should be complete.

3- 2-3 Peer Reviewed/ scholarly references for each question

4- References should be within 4 years

5- I am in acute care nurse practitioner program.

6- The response to the DQ is expected to be a minimum of 300 words. A minimum of two peer reviewed/ scholarly  resources are expected. These need to be appropriate for a clinical professional to guide decisions about patient care. If a textbook is used for one of these responses, the other needs to be journal or professional-level website. The references need to be correctly formatted, as do the citations for those references.  “ Question words” don’t count towards 300 minimum count”

  

Write a 3–4 page letter in which you analyze your leadership skills and how you would use them to lead a project requiring group collaboration.

Assessments 1 and 2 are scenario-based, so you must complete them in the order in which they are presented.

Leadership is an integral element in any job, regardless of the work title. However, it is important to recognize that leadership is not just one single skill; instead, success in leadership depends on a broad range of skills, among them decision making, collaboration, and communication.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Apply qualities, skills and practices used by effective healthcare leaders.
  • Describe the leadership qualities desirable for the proposed project.  
  • Compare one’s own leadership skills against those of a chosen health care leader.
  • Explain one’s role as project leader, using approaches from a selected leadership model.
• Competency 2: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.
  • Describe an approach to effectively facilitate collaboration among a professional team.
• Competency 4: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
  • Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences. 

 

Preparation

Read the Assessment 1 Scenario found in the Resources. Information in your assessment should be based on information from the scenario.  

Instructions

Develop a professional response to the supervisor using the template provided. The letter will have two main components:

1. Identify the qualities of a successful leader and compare them to your own leadership characteristics.
2. Make recommendations on how to lead and foster teamwork.

Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how you your assessment will be evaluated.

Submission Requirements

• Your letter should be 3–4 double-spaced pages in length.
• Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
• Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.
• Use correct grammar and mechanics.
• Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current, scholarly or professional sources.
• Proofread your writing.

Grading Rubric:

1- Describe leadership qualities desirable for the proposed project. 

Passing Grade:  Describes in detail desirable leadership qualities that are specifically appropriate for the proposed project. 

2-  Compare one’s own leadership skills against those of a chosen health care leader. 

Passing Grade:  Compares one’s own leadership skills against those of a chosen health care leader, using specific examples or actions that illustrate the similarities and differences. 

3-  Explain one’s role as project leader, using approaches from a selected leadership model. 

Passing Grade:  Explains one’s role as project leader in detail, referencing approaches from a selected leadership model with support from academic resources. 

4-  Describe an approach to effectively facilitate collaboration among a professional team. 

Passing Grade:  Describes multiple approaches to effectively facilitate collaboration among a professional team. 

5-  Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences. 

Passing Grade:  Presents a focused purpose through strong organizational skills. Presents evidence through strong paraphrasing/summarizing and appropriate tone and sentence structure.