Assignment: Benefits of CCT to patients

You will develop a proposal for review by the hospital leadership team. This proposal should contain the following (at minimum):

Executive summary detailing the need for collaborative care teams (CCT) and why they will benefit the hospital.
At least one paragraph to summarize each of the following components, citing relevant research as applicable. Assume fictional information to formulate your rationale:
Benefits of CCT to patients
Benefits of CCT to clinical staff
Structure of CCT (what providers are involved, and to what degree)
Oversight and assessment (who is responsible for tracking the success or failure)
Operational/Financial risks or areas of concern
Timeline for implementation
Conclusion: summarize key points to “sell” this proposal. Ideally, this will become a standardized model of care in your hospital, if a pilot is successful.
APA style
Include a cover and reference page
Include a minimum of three references. In-text citations should be used to cite relevant research supporting your rationale for using CCT.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.