NURS-FPX 4065 Care Coordination: Assessment Guides, Study Support & Tutoring

Preliminary Care Coordination Infographic: Requirements and Planning Guide

This assessment asks you to develop a visual preliminary care coordination plan based on a healthcare problem raised in the Sentinel-U Family Support and Home Assessments v5 simulation. The goal is to show how a community-based nurse can plan safe, continuous, culturally responsive services for an identified population.

Start with the simulation, not a generic topic

Review the simulated interview and identify a health concern that the patient or family actually discusses. Specify the affected population and describe why coordinated follow-up matters. Do not claim that a particular diagnosis, barrier, or resource appears in the simulation unless you observed it there. Selecting a concern that is well documented in your own simulation notes makes it easier to justify your planned interventions and goals.

Analyze three dimensions of need

• Physical: Identify healthcare needs such as medication routines, home safety, nutrition, treatment access, immunization, mobility, or other conditions relevant to your selected concern.
• Psychosocial: Consider emotional strain, support networks, mental health needs, caregiving responsibilities, stress, and health-related coping barriers.
• Cultural: Explore how health beliefs, language preferences, family roles, spirituality, and culturally sensitive communication might influence care planning without making assumptions about a patient.

Create two evidence-supported SMART goals

For each goal, specify what the patient will achieve, how improvement will be measured, why the target is realistic, how it relates to the health concern, and when progress will be reviewed. For example, a general skill-building goal could measure whether a patient can explain their follow-up plan using teach-back by a stated review date. Adapt the measures to your actual patient population and scholarly evidence.

Identify a realistic continuum of care

Explain the role of relevant clinics, healthcare professionals, community support programs, education services, and social services. A directory of names alone is insufficient: connect each resource to a particular barrier or goal, and verify that the service exists and is accessible to the population. Include scholarly, peer-reviewed evidence for the selected healthcare best practices; the supplied instructions explicitly state that websites are not suitable as substitutes for these scholarly sources.

Ethical and Policy Factors in Care Coordination: Presentation Guide

Assessment 3 centers on how ethical nursing obligations and governmental policy influence access, patient safety, and the coordination of services. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation, a separate narrative script, and a Kaltura video recording for a healthcare-organization audience.

What the discussion must cover

Explain how government policies related to community health and safety affect the coordination of care. Discuss a specific policy relevant to your selected organizational setting, rather than reviewing policy only in abstract terms. The instructions identify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as an important policy context. Where appropriate, connect actual policy provisions to insurance access, referrals, continuity, patient rights, or other dimensions of the patient experience.

Analyze ethical questions created by national, state, and local policy provisions. A meaningful analysis explains who is affected, which values or duties may conflict, and what consequences might follow from different coordination choices. Assess the influence of the nursing code of ethics while considering health disparities, social needs, and barriers to access among your patient population.

Presentation and script specifications

• Slides: The formatting section specifies 10–12 content slides, excluding title and references slides.
• Duration: A recorded presentation of approximately 10 minutes, not exceeding 10 minutes according to the instructions.
• Script: A separate 3–4-page narrative script in Word, with APA citations and a references page.
• Evidence: Four to five credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications.
• Recording: Use Kaltura to record the presentation, rather than PowerPoint's built-in voice-over option.

The slide narrative and Word script should tell the same story. For example, a presentation can introduce an organization, define a policy issue, show how it changes the referral process, examine an ethical tension, discuss the code of ethics, and close with practical implications for the team. Support conclusions with references on the slides where the claims appear and within the script.

Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues: A Peer Education Guide

Here you take the role of a nurse educating other staff members about the fundamentals of care coordination. The emphasis shifts from an individual care concern to the broader skills nurses need for safe, ethical, effective care transitions.

Five content areas to teach your colleagues

1. Patient and family collaboration: Describe shared decision-making, medication education, active listening, teach-back, culturally competent communication, and ways to include caregivers with the patient's consent.
2. Change management and patient experience: Explain how changes to handoff processes, communications, technology, or staffing can affect patient trust, engagement, safety, and continuity.
3. Ethical rationale for coordinated care plans: Explain why a chosen care-planning approach respects patient autonomy, reduces avoidable harm, and fairly considers differing patient needs.
4. Healthcare policy: Connect specific provisions to care outcomes and the experience of navigating healthcare services, using credible supporting evidence.
5. Nurse's role: Show how nurses help identify barriers, communicate across professions, advocate for patients, and maintain the continuum of care.

Required deliverables

Submit a PowerPoint presentation, a separate 3–5-page APA narrative script, and a video recording in which you present the PowerPoint while speaking from the script. The video may not exceed 10 minutes. The supplied document recommends Kaltura or similar recording software and specifically excludes YouTube as the recording method. Include three to five credible scholarly or professional industry sources, with appropriate citations on slides and an APA references list in the script.

To make your peer education useful, structure it as a short staff development session. Define the concept of coordination; demonstrate how communication failures may complicate transitions; describe practical collaboration and policy considerations; and close with behaviors colleagues can apply in routine nursing work. Keep slides readable and reserve detailed explanation for the narrative script.

Final Care Coordination Strategy: Scholarly Paper Guide

This assessment expands the preliminary infographic you completed in Assessment 2. You must keep the selected healthcare problem and population in focus while developing a more detailed, researched strategy that identifies interventions, timelines, ethical issues, relevant policies, and education priorities.

Turn the preliminary plan into a complete strategy

Start by reviewing the original concern and your initial SMART goals. Which assumptions were strong? Which barriers require greater attention? Search for high-quality research that supports or challenges your preliminary decisions. The final strategy should demonstrate development of the plan, rather than simply repeating infographic captions in paragraphs.

Address three related healthcare issues

Identify three patient healthcare issues connected to the selected primary problem. For each issue, propose a patient-centered intervention, explain an implementation timeline, and identify three relevant community resources. That is three resources per intervention, not just three for the entire paper. Explain how a resource would function in practice and why it is suited to the patient's context.

A useful organizing model is an issue-to-intervention matrix: identify a priority; define the related patient barrier; describe an evidence-supported action; state who participates; specify an implementation and review period; and connect the action to realistic community services. The final paper can convert that matrix into clear scholarly paragraphs with Level 1 and Level 2 section headings.

Show ethical, policy and teaching implications

Discuss ethical decisions and uncertainties that might affect the plan. Identify specific health policy provisions rather than naming laws without explaining their effects. Clarify what matters most when discussing the plan with a patient or family, including readiness to learn, language needs, communication preferences, and patient consent.

Compare proposed teaching-session content with evidence-based educational practice and relevant Healthy People 2030 objectives. Explain exactly why your strategy requires any changes, and how these adjustments support improved coordination and learning.

Paper formatting checklist

• Five to seven pages of scholarly content, excluding title and reference pages.
• APA formatting, including citations and reference entries.
• Five evidence-based resources.
• Three health issues, each with an intervention, three community resources, and an implementation timeline.
• Ethical reasoning, specific policy implications, discussion priorities, and Healthy People 2030 alignment.

Reflective Journal, Sentinel-U and EMPOWER Debrief Reports

Assessment 6 is primarily a documentation and reflection submission. Instead of developing a new care coordination paper, you assemble the work completed across simulation experiences and demonstrate reflection on the four spheres of care.

The four simulation experiences

1. Family Support and Home Assessment v5
2. Prioritization of Care Geriatrics v2
3. Prioritization of Care Adult Medical v2
4. Patient Management & Delegation v2

For each simulation, you must supply its completion report and associated EMPOWER debrief report. The completion reports must display the completion percentage, points, and time spent within the activity. The instructions specify that each section of the EMPOWER debrief tool must contain at least 100 words.

Reflection journal requirements

Complete the four journal entries in the Nursing Reflection Journal: Four Spheres of Care activity and use the activity's Output Activity option to export a PDF. The competency criteria also mention addressing at least three of the four spheres; because the submission instructions call for all four entries, the safer approach is to complete all four and verify current faculty guidance.

Exactly nine files

A useful personal study workflow is to record what you observed, what decisions you made, what evidence or feedback changed your thinking, and what you would approach differently in future patient care. The purpose of reflection is to explain your own learning from the simulated experience, not to provide generic descriptions that could apply to any learner.