Executive Summary Feedback Form: 3A Share your written proposal with your manager, supervisor, or other colleague in a formal leadership position within a health care organization. Complete the "Execu

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Executive Summary

Name

College of Nursing and Health Care Professions, Grand Canyon University

NRS 451: Nursing Leadership and Management

Professor Alicia L. Shields

December 6, 2020

Executive Summary

This paragraph will include your intro. Be sure to explicitly state what you will be talking about.

In this section, discuss why this quality improvement initiative is important. What is the research that validates the importance of this initiative? You will also discuss the benefits of this initiative.

In this section you will describe, in detail, who the target population or audience is. Why are they the target population or audience?

In this section, give a detailed explanation of who or which departments you will need to collaborate with and why in order to implement the initiative.

Cost or Budget Justification

This section, discuss what the cost of implementing this initiative would be and justify why you should get the budget to implement it.

In this section, discuss how your project or program will be evaluated. Be sure to discuss what criteria will be used.

This section is your conclusion where you summarize what you discussed.

Here are sample references. You can use them as a template for your references. Be sure to delete them before turning in your paper.

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