Explain the key lessons learned during each project management phase of your proposed project: initiation, planning, implementation and control, and evaluation and closure.

Complete the “Healthcare Improvement Project Evaluation and Closure” section of your healthcare improvement project (HIP) paper by doing the following:

Evaluation of the Process
A. Evaluate the development of your HIP proposal by doing the following:
1. Explain the key lessons learned during each project management phase of your proposed project: initiation, planning, implementation and control, and evaluation and closure.
2. Discuss ways you would analyze the final data from the proposed project, and identify the titles of the appropriate experts who you could enlist in reviewing the data.
3. Explain any considerations you would make if you had the opportunity to implement your proposed project, using specific examples from your proposed project.
4. Discuss the possible implications of not meeting one or more key performance indicators (KPIs).
a. Explain how you would use evidence-based data to create a plan to improve the metrics measuring the structure, process, and outcomes of the project.

Reflection
B. Reflect on the successes and challenges for all phases of the entire HIP proposal, using examples that would reflect realistic implementation and evaluation phases.
1. Explain how the professional experience of the project team would have contributed to the successes and challenges of the project proposal.
2. Discuss the methods you would have used to respond to scope creep issues such as deviations from the proposed timeline or not meeting the budget.
3. Discuss the importance of tracking KPIs throughout the project.

Project Closure
C. Discuss how you would celebrate once your proposed HIP is implemented and the processes you would use to close your project.
D. Describe the wrap-up session you would have held with the project team, including details of your team’s recommendations, lessons learned, and the next steps for the project.

Conclusion
E. Write a conclusion that reiterates the rationale and purpose of your project, including how your improvement project addresses a need for a quality change, innovation, or improvement.

Note: Your conclusion should not present new information; rather, it should provide new insight and offer creative approaches to guide future work in this area.

1. Discuss how this improvement project is significant to the role of a nurse leader.

F. Submit your entire HIP paper, which should include the following sections:
• Introduction
• Review of Relevant Scholarly Sources
• Healthcare Improvement Project Initiation
• Healthcare Improvement Project Planning
• Healthcare Improvement Project Implementation Plan
• Healthcare Improvement Project Evaluation Plan
• Healthcare Improvement Project Implementation and Control
• Healthcare Improvement Project Evaluation and Closure
• Conclusion

Note: You are required to submit the entire HIP paper for this task, but only the “Healthcare Improvement Project Evaluation and Closure” section will be evaluated at this time.

G. Incorporate the following components of APA style and formatting in your paper: 
• bias-free language 
• APA-specific rules regarding verb tense, voice, and perspective  
• a title page and headers 
• in-text citations and references 
• APA-specific formatting rules for margins, spacing, numbering, and indentation for the title page and main body of your paper, including headers, bulleted and numbered lists, and tables and figures 

H. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.