sections 1-2; sections 3-6

Please remember that your document is being prepared for a proposal for what your intervention(s) are going to be for a one-year pilot project.

Before you create the budget and or timeline you must make sure that you have the following information

1) Based upon the first part of the project you were supposed to Quantify the number of monies lost or not realized as a result of your problem

For instance, if you are claiming the need for a psych unit how many patients were lost in revenue to the fact of not having that unit for a one year period. And you must be able to document where and how you got that figure,

2) If your project is going to require either facility redesign or new capital equipment, you must know how many years in your organization's accounting system they allow you to break up the expenses. For instance if the system is five years and you are purchasing a 1 million dollar machine then you take the first 250.000 and apply that to your proposed pilot project.

3) If you are using existing staff you have a full-time salary you must take whatever % of their salary and assign to your budget

4) Do not forget to include other monies from the department and assign to your project. If you going to have to feed patients you must include that in the operational budget

Your budgets must have a detailed line-item budget for staffing with a line for each staff person. If you have a coordinator or manager put their salary in.

You must have a detailed line item budget for operations

If your purchasing equiptment you must have a capital budget

When creating this budget have sub totals for each section and then have a total budget for the year

Then have a final section at the bottom of the budget

For instance

Nursing Turn over is costing the hopsital 3,000,000 for the year and your interventions are going to cost less then it might be worth doing

If the cost is greater than the one year loss and you believe that the expense is going to be made up in five years. You must write a justification at the bottom of the budget

If you are going to use a excel spreadsheet it must be embedded in the document. It cannot be an appendix

If it is not embedded in the document it will be considered not there

Remember you must have a key in each section of the budget explaining where you got your figures from

As for the timeline you must first decide if you want a three month or six month prep time before launching the project.

In the prep time section of the timeline you are to list all the task you must accomplish and when during that period

For instance the hiring of new staff if needed

During the first four quarters you must have in your timeline

How you are going to accomplish each part of the scorecard remember the score card are the metrics that you promise your organization that will achieve at the end of year 

For projects that are really going to be proposed to your organization if they have a specific budget form you are welcome to use it.