Implementation Plan- Rolling Out the Initiative

Table 1: Timeline

Activity	Duration
Management approval	3 weeks
Stakeholder engagement	1 month
Orientation training	2 weeks
Preparation and plan’s roll out	3 weeks

Implementation implies taking the necessary actions to achieve a project’s goals. The first step, vital in goal achievement, is setting a timeline. The initiative does not involve building new facilities and should not take long before rolling out to the public. Since the association of greengrocers is open to partnerships and the organization has engaged in similar partnerships before, management approval is expected to take a maximum of three weeks. Stakeholder engagement will follow the management’s approval to give the initiative a better chance to succeed. Stakeholders, internal and external, affect the outcomes of health projects depending on their support and resistance. Engaging stakeholders reduces resistance and increases buy-in (Quanbeck, 2019). The organization’s management, nurses, and support staff are key internal stakeholders whose support is needed for the initiative to succeed. To earn their support, an organizational presentation will be held detailing the project’s benefits and its impacts. Regular meetings will also be held to update stakeholders on the progress. After the management approval and stakeholder engagement, it is crucial to ensure that the team is ready to implement community-based health care activities and handle patients and communities ethically and in a culturally-sensitive manner. As a result, the team will undergo orientation training to ensure that everyone understands the initiative’s focus areas and the ethical, legal, and professional principles to apply throughout the initiative. For instance, the staff will be educated on treating people without discrimination, particularly cultural, ethnic, and gender-based discrimination. The team’s composition will also be diverse in all major aspects to ensure that it is ready to interact with people in a culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate manner (Jongen et al., 2018). With the team ready and focused on achieving the set goals, the initiative’s rollout will be in March 2022. The organization’s team will join the association of greengrocer’s team and commence the initiative through joint leadership from leaders representing each side. Rolling out the plan is expected to commence the organization’s growth and sustainability efforts.

Impacts of the Initiative and Mitigating Negative Impacts

The initiative is expected to achieve three primary goals. The first goal is expanding the organization’s revenue base through earnings from more patient services. The organization will serve more patients due to increased referrals. The nursing staff will be remunerated through the same program to supplement its current income. Secondly, the organization will save the organization some current costs. Thirdly, it will commence the organization’s journey towards sustainability through partnerships in community health development. Despite these efforts and well-outlined plans, some areas of uncertainty can adversely affect the implementation and cause some delays. For instance, it is uncertain whether the team will require further training once it joins the association of greengrocer’s team. Also, it cannot be accurately established whether the current financial reserve will sustain the efforts for one year before the organization starts earning any substantial revenue. The number of nursing staff to be involved in the initiative can only be estimated too. Hence, it is unknown whether more staff will be required, which can adversely affect operations in the organization before more staff is recruited. The organization should set a higher proportion of the current financial reserve towards the program to address these uncertainties. It should also be open to including more volunteers in the program as support staff. The search for donor support should be intensified to increase financial security since financial problems are the most significant risk.