This guide is for NURS 834 Week 4 Practice Initiative Project Part II, start to submission. With your group, a business case PowerPoint of about 15 slides seeking the board's or executives' approval and first-year funding, converted to PDF, with 5 to 8 resources.
NURS 834 is Health Care Operations and Financial Management, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's DNP. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as NURS834; it is the same course.
| Course | NURS 834 Health Care Operations and Financial Management |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 4 |
| Points | 100 points |
| Length | About 15 slides, plus title and reference slides |
| Sources | 5 to 8 resources |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | PowerPoint converted to PDF for SafeAssign; title, introduction, body, conclusion and reference slides in current APA |
What NURS 834 Week 4 Practice Initiative Project Part II asks for
Your group builds a business case for the board of trustees or executive leadership to seek approval for the practice initiative and its first year's funding. It is created in PowerPoint and converted to PDF for SafeAssign submission, with a title slide, introduction slide, body slides, conclusion slide and reference slide in current APA and 5 to 8 resources. The PowerPoint should have approximately 15 slides, not including the title and reference slides. It is due in Module/Week 4 with Waxman chapters 8 and 9, alongside IHI Exercise III. Worth 100 points.
Where it fits in NURS 834
In the published schedule, Practice Initiative Project Part II is one of 8 graded written assignments in NURS 834. It follows Week 3 Practice Initiative Project Part I and comes before Week 5 Practice Initiative Project Part III.
How NURS 834 Week 4 Practice Initiative Project Part II is graded
Liberty grades Practice Initiative Project Part II with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 100 points in the published guide. That is about 10% of the course's 1,010 points. Read the rubric first. Each row is a criterion, and the wording of the highest column is the closest thing you have to a model answer.
Course grades in NURS 834 use Liberty's point scale: an A is 940 to 1010 points of the course total. Missing the length or source minimum usually costs points on several rows at once, which is why the checklist below starts with them.
Timing in the published guide: Each course module/week begins on Monday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday. Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The NURS 834 Week 4 method, step by step
Plan the talk before the slides
Decide what the audience should know or do at the end, and outline the talk around that. The slides come last.
One idea per slide
Each slide carries one point, stated in its title. Short lines, readable type, no paragraphs on the slide.
Put the evidence where it is used
Meet the source requirement (5 to 8 resources) with citations on the slides themselves, plus a final references slide in current APA.
Write speaker notes or a script
Script the talk slide by slide. If the guide asks for voiceover or notes, the analysis lives there.
Rehearse to the time limit
Do one timed run before the final recording and trim to fit the limit.
Check the technical requirements
Confirm the format the guide asks for (About 15 slides, plus title and reference slides): slide count, length, audio and visual, and the file or link type Canvas accepts.
A structure for NURS 834 Week 4 Practice Initiative Project Part II
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,300 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | The problem in one slide. | ~130 words |
| The initiative | What it is and how it works. | ~210 words |
| Evidence | Results elsewhere. | ~180 words |
| Costs | Start-up and first-year operating costs. | ~260 words |
| Return | Savings, revenue and break-even. | ~310 words |
| Risks, ask and conclusion | What could go wrong; the funding request. | ~210 words |
A topic angle that works
Boards decide on the return slide. Show first-year costs, expected savings (readmissions avoided multiplied by cost per readmission) and the break-even point, and make the request in one sentence on the conclusion slide.
Model paragraph with notes
An original paragraph written by our desk to show the register that earns full rubric credit. It is study material: learn the moves, then write your own.
The program costs $412,000 in its first year, mostly two nurse practitioner salaries.1 If it prevents 40 of the 160 heart failure readmissions the hospital currently has each year, at an average cost of about $14,000 each, it avoids $560,000 in costs and reduces readmission penalty exposure, for a net first-year return of about $148,000.2 Break-even is 30 avoided readmissions.3
- Shows cost and savings.
- Uses a stated assumption.
- Gives a break-even figure.
Mistakes that cost points on NURS 834 Week 4
- Far more or fewer than about 15 slides.
- No financial analysis.
- Submitting the PowerPoint instead of a PDF.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: About 15 slides, plus title and reference slides
- Sources: 5 to 8 resources
- Slide count and time limit within the guide's numbers
- Audio, notes or video included if the guide asks
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
How is NURS 834 Part II submitted?
As a PowerPoint converted to PDF for SafeAssign, with about 15 slides plus title and reference slides.
How many points is NURS 834 Week 4 Practice Initiative Project Part II worth?
100 points in Liberty's published course guide for NURS 834, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 10% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is NURS 834 Week 4 the same in every section of NURS 834?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for NURS 834. Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term, so if your Canvas section shows different instructions, a different week or different points, follow Canvas and your instructor.
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