NU499M4-4: Create health promotion, prevention, and risk-reduction strategies to provide population-focused care

NU499M4-4: Create health promotion, prevention, and risk-reduction strategies to provide population-focused care.

Creation of the Population Health Plan

This assessment will focus on the concept of population health management. The focus of population health management is “value-based” care. Population health management utilizes a strategy of improving the delivery of care, containing healthcare costs, and improving the health of the overall community (Mullahy, 2016). Population health management is also connected to reimbursement, as healthcare systems are tasked with prevention of readmissions and working with community leaders to decrease/reduce the number of persons with conditions such as obesity and incidence of smoking (Mullahy, 2016).

Mullahy, C. M. (2016). The case manager’s handbook (6th ed.) Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

In this assessment, you are asked to use the Population Health Model (PHM) Template to create an approach to addressing the health needs of those individuals from your POI from a population-health focus, which will be your Population Health Plan (PHP). This means addressing the following: defining the population, identifying gaps in care, reviewing risks, plan for patient engagement, managing care, measuring outcomes, and identifying pertinent stakeholders. The successful completion of the assessment includes:

• Completion of Population Health Model Template
• A written discussion following the model, describing each aspect you have added to the model
• summary/conclusion paragraph
• scholarly references

*Population Health Model Template: You are free to use a different template or create your own. Your template must, however, contain all of the described components to receive full points.

PHM Template

Fawcett, J., & Ellenbecker, C. H. (2015). A proposed conceptual model of nursing and population health. Nursing Outlook, 63(3), 288–298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2015.01.009

Submit your Assessment to the Dropbox.

Minimum Submission Requirements

• Completion of Population Health Model Template
• The written submission should be a Microsoft Word document (2–3 pages in addition to the title and reference pages) following the model, describing each aspect you have added to the model.
• Summary/conclusion paragraph
• 3–5 scholarly references
• Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
• Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
• Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
• A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
• Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style.

If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.