Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic

Project Proposal to decrease hospital readmissions for patients with Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease using a home tele-health system
Project and Change Management
Final Project

Choose a problem that exists at your facility that is high value for patients and the health system. Consider the IHI Triple Aim goals to optimize patient outcomes, value and cost.

This can be a quality improvement initiative based on internal data or a project based on a regulatory change that requires a change in process.

Using an evidence-based solution from research and clinical practice guidelines, create a well-designed project plan that would benefit both patients and the health system.
Your paper should include:

Introduction that includes scope of the problem including internal and external data/statistics to support the problem
Evidence-based solution from research or clinical practice guidelines
Anticipated impact that the project will have and explanation of how findings will close gaps identified by the SWOT analysis and needs assessment
Purpose/Goals
Theoretical nursing models or change theories to support the project
Internal & external stakeholders
Team members including description and roles
Action plan to include implementation strategies, deliverables and technology needs
Time specific milestones
Evaluation metrics for process and outcome indicators
Sustainability measures
Dissemination measures
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

Write between 2,500 ? 3,000 words (approximately 10 ? 12 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
Use font size 12 and 1? margins.
Include cover page and reference page.
At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
Use at least five references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.
References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.