| Course | NR 709A DNP Project & Practicum IV |
|---|---|
| Week | 1 |
| Paper type | Discussion post with two replies |
| Length | About 680 words |
| Format | Discussion post with APA 7 citations |
| School | Chamberlain University |
| Program | Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) |
| Updated | October 2026 |
Free sample paper for NR 709A Week 1
Week 1 Discussion: Initial Post
Twelve Weeks of Same-Day Handoffs: The 30-Day Contact Rate Rose From 32.6% to 53.1%, and the Gap I Expected Was Not There
Initial Post
Over the twelve test weeks ending 24 May 2027, the share of adults screening 10 or higher on the PHQ-9 who reached behavioral health inside 30 days rose from 32.6% to 53.1% at our health center.
The counts underneath. In the test weeks, 139 of 262 eligible patients reached behavioral health inside the window. For the same twelve calendar weeks of 2026, recounted under the identical rule, the figure was 97 of 298. Implementation outcomes such as reach and fidelity were tracked weekly alongside it (Proctor et al., 2011), so the count is not the only evidence I have. The rule counts the first eligible visit per patient in the window, leaves out anyone already seen by behavioral health in the previous 90 days and counts a completed visit or a documented phone or video contact of ten minutes or more. Every 30-day window closed by 23 June, and the counts were finished on 28 June.
What I expected and did not find. I expected Spanish-speaking patients to lag, because the script was first written in English and the consultant who covers most visits is not a native Spanish speaker. They did not lag: 60 of 114 Spanish-speaking patients completed a contact, 52.6%, against 79 of 148 English-speaking patients, 53.4%. The gap I planned to report is under one point. I think the reworded Spanish script in week 4 and the behavioral health assistant, who is bilingual and makes the next-day calls, account for much of that, but I cannot separate them, and I have said so in the results paper.
What the data cannot carry. Several classmates and one of my committee members asked whether depression scores improved. I do not know. The project measured whether patients reached behavioral health, not whether they got better, and only 71 of the 139 had a repeat PHQ-9 recorded within 60 days, which is too few, and too self-selected, to report. Getting people through the door is the first step that integrated care depends on (Archer et al., 2012), but it is not the outcome patients care about most, and I would rather say that plainly than let the 53.1% stand in for it.
One more thing I will not claim: that the handoff alone moved the rate. On 1 April the main payer began covering video visits with behavioral health, and 18 of the 139 contacts were by video. With no comparison site, a single run chart can show a shift but cannot rule out a change happening at the same time (Perla et al., 2011).
What I Am Asking
My question for the group: if your own result came with a change you did not control, such as a new benefit or a staffing change partway through, how did you report it without either hiding it or letting it swallow the finding? I would like to see the sentence you used.
Reply to Tasha
Tasha, you wrote that falls fell from 9 to 5 after the hourly rounding started. Over what census? If the unit ran about 900 patient days in each period, that is 10.0 per 1,000 against 5.6 per 1,000, which sounds dramatic, but with counts that small a single bad week moves it by a whole point. Could you put the monthly counts on a run chart? Five points per period will not support a shift rule, so I would report the counts and hold off on the word "reduced" until the next quarter.
Reply to Brian
Brian, your discharge call reached 64 of 80 patients, 80%. How many of the other 16 had a wrong number on file? If it was most of them, the fix is upstream at registration, not in your script, and your success rate among patients you could reach is closer to 95%. That is worth a separate line, because it changes who needs to act next term.
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
Perla, R. J., Provost, L. P., & Murray, S. K. (2011). The run chart: A simple analytical tool for learning from variation in healthcare processes. BMJ Quality & Safety, 20(1), 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs.2009.037895
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
NR 709A Week 1 instructions, in plain terms
Keep the post short on screen and arrange it in three moves. Open with a sentence a reader could quote back without anything else: the measure, the direction it went and the period it covers. In the second paragraph, give the counts underneath the figure, so nobody has to ask how many records produced it, and state the counting rule in a line or two. In the third move, name something you expected to find and did not, or a comparison your data cannot support, and say so before a classmate or faculty member asks. Do not recap the whole project; the graded object is this term's finding. End with a question that classmates can answer from their own projects. In replies, do the arithmetic a classmate's post left out, such as turning a raw count into a rate or splitting a failure into its causes, so the reply adds something the original post did not have.
How the NR 709A Week 1 example is put together
The sample's opening sentence gives the share of adults screening 10 or higher on the PHQ-9 who reached behavioral health inside 30 days, rising from 32.6% to 53.1% across the twelve test weeks ending 24 May 2027. Underneath are 139 of 262 eligible patients against 97 of 298 in the same calendar weeks of 2026, counted under one rule that is summarized in two sentences. The writer expected Spanish-speaking patients to lag and reports that they did not: 52.6% against 53.4%. The post declines to say anything about depression scores, since only 71 of 139 had a repeat screen, and names the payer's video coverage from 1 April as a change the single run chart cannot rule out. One reply converts a classmate's falls from 9 to 5 into rates per 1,000 patient days; the other asks how many unreached patients had wrong numbers on file.
Reading the NR 709A Week 1 grading rubric
Final-term posts lose the most ground when they state a percentage and stop, leaving the obvious question of how many records produced it to be asked in front of the whole section. Next is the post that retells the whole project, from design to setting, when the reader wants this term's finding in a few lines. A third common loss is the post that lets a headline figure stand in for an outcome it did not measure, such as reporting contact rates as though they showed patients got better. Many posts leave out a change that happened partway through the test, which a classmate will usually spot. Replies written as agreement, with a compliment and a restatement, earn the participation mark and nothing else. Posts that close without a question leave classmates nothing to answer.
NR 709A Week 1 help: mistakes that cost points
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NR 709A Week 1 questions, answered
How long should a term-four opening post run?
Most sections publish a word range rather than a hard number, and length is rarely where the marks move. A short post carrying a figure, the base under it and one honest qualifier scores above a long one that recaps the whole project and arrives at the finding on the last line. The range your classroom publishes is the one that governs, and the qualifier is where the words earn their place.
My numbers are not final yet. What does the post say?
It says so, with the date the last extract was pulled and what is still outstanding. An interim figure labeled as interim is ordinary doctoral practice; the same figure presented as settled is the problem, because everything you write in the weeks after has to agree with it. Faculty read the opening post as a marker, not as a result.
Can a sample post use my own figures?
Send them and the example is built around them, including the qualifier that goes with a count of that size. Where you would rather not share, the sample runs on a stand-in figure and marks every place your own belongs, so swapping them in takes a few minutes and changes nothing structural.
Where can I find a free NR 709A Week 1 sample paper?
The full first-week post reporting a twelve-week rise in 30-day behavioral health contact, with two replies, is on this page.
What does the NR 709A Week 1 post decline to claim?
It does not claim depression scores improved, since only 71 of 139 patients had a repeat screen, and it does not credit the rise to the handoff alone.