NR 705A Week 3 Change Package Outline Example

Course	NR 705A DNP Project & Practicum II
Week	3
Paper type	Change package outline
Length	About 1,100 words, 5 pages
Format	APA 7 student paper
School	Chamberlain University
Program	Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Updated	October 2026

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Change Package Outline: Every Object the Same-Day Behavioral Health Introduction Needs, Who Writes It, Where It Lives and Whether a Draft Exists

Student Name

College of Nursing, Chamberlain University

NR 705A: DNP Project & Practicum II

Instructor Name

Month Day, Year

What this page is doingThe outline gives one line per object, groups objects by when they are used, measures teaching in minutes, puts version numbers on everything and names dependencies owned by other people.

Change Package Outline: Every Object the Same-Day Behavioral Health Introduction Needs, Who Writes It, Where It Lives and Whether a Draft Exists

Before the Start Date

Object	Author	Where it lives	Time to produce	Draft exists?	Version
One-page workflow summary for clinicians and medical assistants	DNP student, reviewed by director of behavioral health	Clinic shared drive, Behavioral Health folder; printed at each workstation	3 hours	Yes	0.3
Start-date announcement email	Site medical director, from a student draft	Staff email	1 hour	Yes	0.2
Five-minute huddle teaching script with one teach-back question	DNP student	Shared drive; used at three huddles	2 hours	Yes	0.4
Consultant template change: two open-access slots daily	Scheduling office, on director's request	Scheduling system	1 hour of scheduling office time	No; request submitted 18 January	n/a
Moved follow-up appointments list	Behavioral health assistant	Scheduling system	4 hours	No	n/a

During Each Visit

Object	Author	Where it lives	Time to produce	Draft exists?	Version
Laminated pocket card for medical assistants: trigger, message wording, patient question in English and Spanish	DNP student, Spanish reviewed by bilingual medical assistant	Clipped to each rooming tablet	2 hours plus review	Yes, English; Spanish in review	0.2
Secure message group "BH warm handoff"	Clinic information technology lead	Secure messaging system	30 minutes	No; request submitted 18 January	n/a
Smart phrase for the visit note recording the patient's answer	Clinical informatics, on site medical director's request	Electronic record	Queue estimate 3 weeks	No	n/a
Sign in the behavioral health waiting area: "Meeting our counselor today? Please wait here"	DNP student	Wall outside consultant's office, English and Spanish	1 hour	Yes	0.1

After the Visit

Object	Author	Where it lives	Time to produce	Draft exists?	Version
Next-business-day call script, English and Spanish	Behavioral health assistant and DNP student	Shared drive; printed at the assistant's desk	3 hours plus review	Yes, English	0.2
Daily 16:30 list of positive screens without same-day contact	Quality analyst	Report emailed to the behavioral health assistant	4 hours to build	No	n/a
Weekly measure summary	Quality analyst, with DNP student	Shared drive	1 hour a week	No	n/a

What this page is doingGrouping objects by when they are used shows the team what has to be ready before the first patient and what can follow.

Teaching, Measured in Minutes

Medical assistants: five minutes at each of three morning huddles in the week before start, using the script; teach-back question: "A patient's PHQ-9 is 12 and the counselor is with someone else. What do you do?" Clinicians: five minutes at the Tuesday operations meeting and the one-page summary by email. Behavioral health team: twenty minutes at their Wednesday meeting, including the template change and the call script. Total staff teaching time: about 15 minutes per medical assistant, 5 per clinician and 20 per behavioral health team member.

Version Numbers on Everything

Every object carries a version number and date in its footer. The shared drive keeps old versions in an archive folder. A change after the start date, such as rewording the patient question, will be recorded in a change log on the one-page summary, so that later results can be matched to the version in use.

Dependencies Owned by Other People

Some objects cannot be produced by the student at all. Four objects depend on someone else's queue: the template change, owned by the scheduling office; the message group, owned by the clinic's information technology lead; the smart phrase, owned by clinical informatics; and the daily list, owned by the quality analyst. The smart phrase has the longest queue. If it is not ready by 1 March, medical assistants will record the patient's answer in the free-text visit note, and the weekly summary will be built from the message group instead. No other dependency blocks the start, and each owner has given a date by which their part will be ready.

What this page is doingNaming dependencies owned by other people, with a fallback for the slowest, keeps the start date from depending on a queue the student cannot control.

Why the Package Is Bilingual From the Start

About 40% of visits at the site are in Spanish. The patient question on the pocket card, the waiting area sign and the call script are drafted in both languages before the start, not translated afterward, and a bilingual medical assistant reviews each Spanish version for how patients actually speak. One study found warm handoffs worked differently across language groups among Latino patients (Horevitz et al., 2015), so the project cannot afford Spanish materials that read as an afterthought.

What this page is doingBuilding the bilingual materials before the start, rather than translating later, reflects the evidence that language shaped how warm handoffs worked elsewhere.

How the Package Will Be Checked Before Day One

On 22 and 23 February, two dry runs will be held with a medical assistant, the consultant and a volunteer staff member playing a patient: one during a free slot and one when the consultant is busy. Each object will be used in sequence, and any gap found will be fixed before 1 March. The version numbers will move to 1.0 after the dry runs, and any object changed during them will be reviewed again by its author.

Who Owns the Package After the Test

A package that depends on its author ends when the author leaves. The director of behavioral health owns the workflow summary, script and sign. The site medical director owns the pocket card and huddle script. The quality analyst owns the daily list and weekly summary. Ownership is assigned now so that the package does not depend on the student when the project ends. Each owner has seen the object they will own and agreed to keep its version number current if they change it.

How Long the Package Takes to Assemble

About 20 hours of the student's time for the drafts and reviews, plus about 8 hours from other staff for reviews, the template change and the report build. The work is spread over January and February so that no object is rushed in the last week before the start.

What the Package Deliberately Leaves Out

A patient handout about depression, because the consultant already uses one. A new policy, because the change fits within existing behavioral health procedures. New hardware, because the existing tablets and secure messaging cover everything needed.

How the Package Fits the Evidence

Integrated care depends on routine, low-friction processes for bringing patients and behavioral health clinicians together (Archer et al., 2012). The package keeps each object small and physical so that the change can run on a busy day without anyone needing to remember a long procedure. Implementation research treats adoption and fidelity as outcomes in their own right (Proctor et al., 2011), and the pocket card and script are the objects most likely to affect fidelity.

References

Archer, J., Bower, P., Gilbody, S., Lovell, K., Richards, D., Gask, L., Dickens, C., & Coventry, P. (2012). Collaborative care for depression and anxiety problems. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012(10), CD006525. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006525.pub2

Horevitz, E., Organista, K. C., & Arean, P. A. (2015). Depression treatment uptake in integrated primary care: How a "warm handoff" and other factors affect decision making by Latinos. Psychiatric Services, 66(8), 824-830. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400085

Proctor, E., Silmere, H., Raghavan, R., Hovmand, P., Aarons, G., Bunger, A., Griffey, R., & Hensley, M. (2011). Outcomes for implementation research: Conceptual distinctions, measurement challenges, and research agenda. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 38(2), 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-010-0319-7

The Chamberlain NR 705A Week 3 instructions

Write the outline as a list, one line per object: what it is, who writes it, where it will live, how long it takes to produce and whether a draft exists yet. Group the objects by when they are used. Keep a modest change's kit short and physical: a one-pager, a pocket card, a short teaching script with a teach-back question, a sign, an announcement. Measure teaching in minutes per role. Put a version number on everything and say how changes will be logged. Name every dependency owned by someone else and give the slowest a fallback. Say who will own each object after the project, and what the package deliberately leaves out.

Inside the NR 705A Week 3 example

The sample groups objects before the start, such as a workflow summary, announcement, huddle script and scheduling template change; during the visit, such as a bilingual pocket card, message group, note phrase and waiting area sign; and after it, such as a call script, a 16:30 list and a weekly summary. Teaching totals about 15 minutes per medical assistant, 5 per clinician and 20 per behavioral health staff member, with a teach-back question about a busy consultant. Dependencies are the scheduling office, information technology, clinical informatics and the analyst, with free-text notes as the fallback for the note phrase. Dry runs, ownership and about 28 hours of assembly are described. The package also explains why Spanish materials are drafted from the start rather than translated later.

NR 705A Week 3 rubric: what full points look like

Change packages lose most when they describe the change in paragraphs instead of listing the objects staff will actually use. Next is an outline with no authors, locations or draft status, so nobody can tell what is ready. Many packages leave teaching time vague, which hides how much staff time the change costs. Version numbers are often missing, making it impossible to match later results to the materials in use. Dependencies on other departments are frequently overlooked until the week before launch. Packages without named owners after the project tend to disappear when the student leaves, which graders recognize as a sustainability gap. Outlines that never plan a dry run also leave gaps to be found on the first live day. Bilingual materials added late often read as afterthoughts.

Common NR 705A Week 3 mistakes, and how to avoid them

Listing every object a change needs usually turns up two or three nobody had thought of. Line by line, we can help you set down each object, group them by when they are used and measure teaching in minutes. We can also help you name dependencies owned by others and assign owners after the project. A dry run with real staff before the start date is the best test of whether the list is complete. The package is yours. Planning a dry run before the start date is worth doing too.

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NR 705A Week 3 questions, answered

Is a change package the same as an implementation plan?

They answer different questions. The package is the set of things that have to be in hand before the first day, listed as objects with authors and dates. A plan arranges people and days around those objects. In this term the second one is not being asked for, and an outline that becomes a calendar usually arrives with half its items still unnamed.

Do the actual drafts belong in the submission?

In most sections yes, as appendices, and the outline reads very differently once they are there. An item described in a table is a promise; an item attached is a fact. Where a draft is genuinely not ready, saying so on its line costs less than a vague entry, because faculty can tell the difference and usually comment on it.

How big should a kit be?

Small enough that one person can produce all of it inside the term, which is usually five or six items. A long list is read as a design that has grown since Week 2 rather than as thoroughness. If an item cannot be traced back to a step in the design paper, it is generally cheaper to cut it than to defend it later.

Where can I find a free NR 705A Week 3 sample paper?

You can read the whole change package outline for a same-day behavioral health introduction right here.

Which dependency in the NR 705A Week 3 package is slowest, and what is the fallback?

The note phrase from clinical informatics, with a three-week queue; if it is late, staff record the patient's answer in free text and the message group supplies the counts.