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Homework: Implementation Plan

Policy Project Evaluation Plan Template

Purpose

Every successful project needs to establish a project implantation plan, budget, and evaluation plan prior to the beginning of the project. The purpose of developing a project implantation plan, budget and evaluation plan is to outline how you intend to plan, budget, evaluate and monitor your project and how you will use the results of the evaluation to improve the project. As the nurse leader of a successful change project, you must have a clear understanding of the problem and what the opportunities are for improvement. With that in mind, it is vital that an implementation, plan, budget, and evaluation plan of the project are established early. Good plans are necessary to for the successful achievement of the project outcomes. The purpose of this homework if to have you develop an implementation plan, budget and evaluation plan to guide your project.

Background:

Use the Policy Project Outcomes and Evaluation Template to create your proposed project evaluation.

Create a Gantt Chart

Background: What is your schedule for your project? There are many ways to present a schedule. For this project, you are expected to develop project timelines using a Gantt chart for key deliverables created in excel. The week 5 lesson contains a tutorial to follow to develop your Gantt chart. The Gantt chart, named after Henry Gantt, clearly shows the start and completion dates for all major project activities and subtasks. The Gantt chart is straightforward, easy to understand, and simple to change. It provides a snapshot of the project, and one can immediately identify task durations and distinguish tasks dependent upon other tasks to be completed before they are started. Understanding all dependencies is critical for the project manager who is responsible for time, budgets, and resource allocation. Please refer to the information below on the project schedule, formative and summative evaluation criteria, outcomes, and budget prior to completing the templates

Complete the Policy Project Outcomes and Evaluation Template.

Background: Formative Evaluation Criteria and Data Collection

What evaluation criteria will you use to ensure that your planned change/policy occurred as you planned? Formative (sometimes referred to as process) evaluation is performed throughout the planned change/policy process to determine whether the change has been implemented as you intended. Without intermittent formative evaluation, you will not know if the intervention did or did not cause the intended outcome because you will not know whether it was implemented. Consider how you will know whether the change is being implemented; this may be by audit. At what point(s) in time will you collect this data using your evaluation tool and under what conditions?

Summative Evaluation Criteria and Data Collection

What evaluation criteria will you use to determine if your practice change (i.e., practice change/policy) has produced the effect in the outcome that you desire? Summative (sometimes referred to as impact) evaluation is at the end. Remember that you are looking for a change in the selected outcome. What tool are you using to evaluate your outcome?

Outcomes

How will you analyze your results to determine if your selected intervention produced the outcome that you desire?

Use the Policy Project Outcomes and Evaluation Template to create your proposed project evaluation.

Complete the Policy Project Budget Template.

Background: One of the keys to project success is completing the project within a budget. In order to develop a realistic budget, consider the following questions:

1) What resources, including human resources and support, financial support, data resources, and materials, will you need for your project? What is your proposed budget for your project?

2) Does your project budget account for all cost factors and span the life of the project? Addressing Variance within Budgeted and Actual Expenses.

Once the planned change project is underway, the advanced practice nurse will be responsible for managing the cost of the initiative. To facilitate this process, the nurse will note the actual expenses incurred for the necessary resources. When the actual cost differs from the projected cost, a variance occurs. Any variance that occurs between the projected and actual budget must be analyzed. As revenue and expenses deviate from the projected numbers, adjustments in the budget may be required. Use the Healthcare Policy Project Budget Template to create your proposed budget.