| Course | NR 717 Concepts in Population Health Outcomes & Health Policy |
|---|---|
| Week | 8 |
| Paper type | Policy presentation with speaker notes |
| Length | About 1,010 words, 5 pages |
| Format | Slides with speaker notes, APA 7 references |
| School | Chamberlain University |
| Program | Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) |
| Updated | October 2026 |
Free sample paper for NR 717 Week 8
Presentation to the Lakeview Quality Committee: $23,500 for Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring, and What Lakeview Already Spends Without It
Student Name
College of Nursing, Chamberlain University
NR 717: Concepts in Population Health Outcomes & Health Policy
Instructor Name
Month Day, Year
Slide 1: The Ask: $23,500 for a Twelve-Month Pilot
Remote blood pressure monitoring for Lakeview members discharged from Riverbend with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy
About 147 members a year at $160 each
From the medical management budget, starting 1 July 2027
Speaker notes: Thank you for the time. The request comes first, so that everything after it can be tested against it. We are asking Lakeview to pay $160 for each of its members who leaves Riverbend after delivery with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, about 147 people and $23,500 a year, for a twelve-month pilot. The money would come from the medical management budget that already funds your post-discharge calls.
Slide 2: Six in Ten Go Unchecked in the First Ten Days
502 Riverbend patients discharged with a hypertensive disorder last year
196 of them, 39.0%, were checked in the recommended window
Collaborative member median: 52%
Speaker notes: National obstetric guidance asks for these patients' pressure to be checked a week to ten days after discharge (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2018). At Riverbend, fewer than four in ten got one. The state perinatal quality collaborative's member median is 52%, so this is not a national problem we are borrowing; it is ours, and we are below our peers.
Slide 3: Lakeview Already Pays About $122,600 a Year for the Gap
About 10 hypertension readmissions within six weeks: about $94,500
36 emergency visits for raised pressure, sent home: about $28,100
Source: Riverbend claims for Lakeview members, baseline year
Speaker notes: This is what the present arrangement already costs Lakeview, from Riverbend's records of your payments. Readmissions average $9,450 and emergency visits $780. None of this spending prevents anything; it pays for the consequence of a check that did not happen. The pilot costs about a fifth of this amount.
Slide 4: Home Monitoring Captures the Reading Office Visits Miss
Randomized trial, 206 patients with postpartum hypertension
Pressure recorded in first 10 days: 92.2% with text monitoring, 43.7% with office follow-up
Measured readings captured, not readmissions
Speaker notes: The evidence is a randomized trial from an urban academic hospital (Hirshberg et al., 2018). Text monitoring with a home cuff more than doubled the share of patients with a reading in the first ten days. I want to be clear about its limit: the trial measured whether readings were captured, not whether readmissions fell. Our pilot will measure both, which is part of what you would be paying for.
Slide 5: The Pilot Breaks Even at Three Prevented Readmissions
Cost: about $23,500
Three readmissions avoided: about $28,350
Emergency visits avoided add to the margin
Speaker notes: Three prevented readmissions cover the pilot. Last year there were about ten among Lakeview members at Riverbend. If the program prevents none, Lakeview has spent $23,500 to learn that, with a monthly report to show it. If it prevents a third of them, it pays for itself without counting a single emergency visit.
Slide 6: Extended Coverage Puts the Whole Postpartum Year on Lakeview
State adopted twelve-month postpartum Medicaid coverage
Lakeview now carries members through the months when complications occur
Prevention now pays back inside Lakeview's own year
Speaker notes: Since the state adopted the twelve-month postpartum option under federal guidance (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2021), your members stay with you for the whole postpartum year. That raises your exposure to exactly the events this pilot targets, and it means the savings, if they come, arrive on your books rather than someone else's.
Slide 7: What Riverbend Commits To
Enroll every eligible member before discharge, cuff and teaching at the bedside
Same-day nurse review of readings above threshold
A visit, in clinic or by video, inside a day when a reading calls for one
Monthly report to Lakeview's quality department
Speaker notes: In return for the payment, Riverbend takes on the delivery. Our women's services director has agreed to staff the review, and the obstetric practices will accept same-day referrals. Anyone who declines or stops reporting costs Lakeview nothing; the payment follows enrollment.
Slide 8: Where This Fits the Doctoral Project
Project population: 502 Riverbend patients with hypertensive disorders a year
Project outcome: a pressure recorded 7 to 10 days after discharge
This contract keeps the work running after the project ends
Speaker notes: The pilot is the financing half of my doctoral project, which measures the same population and the same outcome. Without a payer, the monitoring would stop when the project ends; with Lakeview's payment, it continues and expands to your other members if it works.
Slide 9: What Could Go Wrong, and What Happens Then
Enrollment below 70% of eligible members: Riverbend reviews bedside teaching
No fall in readmissions at six months: Lakeview may end the pilot
Any member harmed by a missed alert: case review within a week
Speaker notes: You should know in advance what failure would look like. If fewer than seven in ten eligible members enroll, the problem is ours, and we will fix the teaching before asking for more money. If readmissions have not moved at six months, Lakeview can end the pilot at the review with no further payment. And if any alert is missed, we will review the case within a week and report it to your quality department.
Slide 10: What We Need From the Room Today
Chief medical officer: support for the amendment at the April term sheet
Finance: confirm the medical management budget line
Quality director: name the contact for monthly reports
Committee: agree the six-month review date, January 2028
Speaker notes: These are the four tasks I am asking the committee to leave with. None needs board approval. If any of them cannot happen, I would rather know today, so we can change the request before the term sheet is due on 1 April.
References
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2018). ACOG Committee Opinion No. 736: Optimizing postpartum care. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 131(5), e140-e150. https://doi.org/10.1097/AOG.0000000000002633
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2021). Improving maternal health and extending postpartum coverage in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) (State Health Official Letter No. 21-007). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/sho21007.pdf
Hirshberg, A., Downes, K., & Srinivas, S. (2018). Comparing standard office-based follow-up with text-based remote monitoring in the management of postpartum hypertension: A randomised clinical trial. BMJ Quality & Safety, 27(11), 871-877. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2018-007837
The Chamberlain NR 717 Week 8 instructions
Put the ask and its number on an early slide, so the person who controls the budget can test the rest of the deck against it. Give each slide one claim. Bring the money in early: what the problem already costs, what the change would cost and who could authorize it. Put a source under every figure, in the notes if not on the slide. Show the evidence briefly and say what it did not measure. Include the conditions under which the change would be judged a failure, because a budget holder will ask. Show how your doctoral project population sits inside the argument, rather than in an appendix. End with tasks for the people in the room, by role. Keep slide text short and let the notes carry the detail, and prepare for the two questions that always come: the price and the pocket.
How the NR 717 Week 8 example is put together
Slide 1 asks for $23,500 for about 147 members from the medical management budget. Slide 2 gives the 39.0% rate against a collaborative median of 52%. Slide 3 sets out about $122,600 in readmissions and emergency visits from Riverbend's claims. Slide 4 reports the trial's 92.2% against 43.7% and states that it measured readings, not readmissions. Slide 5 shows the three-readmission break-even. Slide 6 explains how twelve-month postpartum coverage puts the whole year on the plan. Slide 7 lists Riverbend's commitments. Slide 8 places the doctoral project population and outcome inside the argument. Slide 9 gives three failure conditions and their consequences. Slide 10 assigns tasks to the chief medical officer, finance, the quality director and the committee.
Where the points sit in the NR 717 Week 8 rubric
The costliest deck presents findings and requests nothing, sending a room away informed and leaving the money where it was. Next is the ask with no figure, or a figure that first appears on the final slide where nobody can test it. Marks are also lost for numbers with no sources, for a project connection asserted instead of shown, for slides written as paragraphs and read aloud and for no preparation for questions on price and source of funds. Ignoring a time or slide limit costs points, as does identifying detail left in a clinical story. Decks score well when the money appears early, when failure conditions are stated before the vote and when the room leaves with tasks.
NR 717 Week 8 help: mistakes that cost points
A policy deck has to work for the one person in the room who can approve spending, which changes what goes on each slide. Bring your request, your figures and a description of the room, and together we can move the ask and its number to the front, cut each slide to one claim, place sources under figures, write failure conditions and close with tasks by role. Notes for each slide, holding the detail the slides leave out, are part of the same work, and so is a short rehearsal of answers to the questions on price and source of funds. The request, the evidence and the project connection are yours.
Get a NR 717 Week 8 example written to your instructions
Send the Week 8 instructions with the slide count or time limit your section sets and your earlier work on the population, and a custom example is built to those requirements and returned inside 24 to 48 hours. The first one is free. Delivering it in the room is the part that stays yours.
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NR 717 Week 8 questions, answered
How much of the term's earlier work goes into the deck?
Compressed hard, and only what the ask rests on. The population analysis, the profile and the financing paper are the evidence, so each is worth a slide with the detail held in the notes for anybody who asks. Decks rebuilding the earlier papers arrive at the request with two minutes left, which is the commonest failure in this assignment.
How do I connect the policy work to my DNP project?
Through the population and the money rather than through a stated theme. Where the project addresses a group whose outcomes a financing arrangement is holding back, the policy position is what lets the work continue after you leave. Your practice hours, the record you keep them in, and anything a project site or mentor puts a signature on belong to you and are never drafted here.
What if somebody asks a question I cannot answer?
Say what you would need to find out and by when, which reads better than an improvised figure. Budget audiences are used to unresolved numbers and unforgiving about invented ones. Preparing two or three likely questions, particularly about the cost estimate and the funding source, is worth more than another slide, and instructors frequently mark the questions.
Where can I find a free NR 717 Week 8 sample paper?
The complete ten-slide policy presentation, with speaker notes, can be read on this page.
Why does the NR 717 Week 8 deck include a slide on what could go wrong?
Stating failure conditions before the vote lets the budget holder approve a bounded risk, including the option to end the pilot at six months.