NURS 6211 – Finance and Economics in Healthcare Delivery – Week 2 Assignment
NURS 6211 The Assignment: Healthcare Budget Request – Executive Summary:
Throughout this course, you will develop a comprehensive Healthcare Budget Request to promote commitment from leadership to your idea for a healthcare product or service to address gaps or provide opportunities to your organization. We started thinking about this in the week 1 discussion.
For this Assignment, you will begin this effort by developing an executive summary for the proposal. You will also begin work on a spreadsheet workbook that you will utilize to calculate and present financial analysis in support of your idea.
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This assignment has two parts. Part 1 is the development of an executive summary. Part 2 is the development of an Excel workbook template to be used throughout the course and you analyze data related to your proposed healthcare product or service. Be sure to read the details and directions as presented in the Blackboard classroom for this week.
To Prepare
- Reflect on current gaps or opportunities for enhanced services within your healthcare organization.
- Select one of these gaps or opportunities that you would like to analyze and for which you would like to propose a healthcare product or service solution.
- Reflect on the impact this issue/opportunity and product/service solution have (or could have) on various stakeholders and systems across your healthcare organization.
- Identify one or more individuals within your healthcare organization to act as “finance counselor” with whom you can consult on financial and budget items such as costing, estimating, and budget request processes.
- Reflect on the current costs associated with the selected issue or opportunity, including direct financial costs to the organization and financial costs to patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders. Also consider non-financial costs, including opportunity costs.
- Consider how you would communicate a proposal to leadership that addresses the selected issue/opportunity within your organization.
The Assignment: Healthcare Budget Request – Executive Summary:
Develop an executive summary and structure for a healthcare budget request for your new product or service idea by completing the following:
Part 1: Executive Summary
Using the Healthcare Budget Request Template, develop a 1- to 2-page executive summary that describes the issue or opportunity that you are analyzing. In your executive summary, you should:
- Describe the healthcare issue or opportunity you selected.
- Describe the stakeholder groups impacted by this issue/opportunity.
- Explain which stakeholder groups would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue or opportunity you selected and why. Be specific and provide examples.
- Describe the healthcare product or service that you propose to address the identified gaps/opportunities and explain why.
The instructions from the Healthcare Budget Request Workbook say:
Part 1: Executive Summary
Your executive summary will be a critical first component of your formal healthcare budget request. It will be your first real opportunity to sell leadership
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