As a master’s level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organization’s outcomes. In this week’s assignment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in your Week 3 assignment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.
Be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence. Review the assignment instructions and scoring guide to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.
Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:
Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
Reiterate your rationale for pursuing this issue, as well as the gap contributing to it that you identified in your Week 3 assignment.
Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
Use at least one piece of evidence to support this disparity (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resources).
Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
For example, if your implementation plan includes the need for increased staffing, you might want to research errors or patient falls that occurred as a result of high patient and low staff ratio in the literature.
Use at least four evidence-based or scholarly sources that are relevant to your chosen topic to support your explanation.
Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan. Outcomes and opportunities for growth should focus on economic considerations.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Additional Requirements
Length of Submission: 3–5 double-spaced pages.
Number of References: Cite at least 4 sources of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
APA formatting: Titles, headings, resources, and citations are formatted according to the current APA style.
Resources
https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2021/04/how-predictive-modeling-healthcare-boosts-patient-care-perfcon
HealthTech. https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2021/04/how-predictive-modeling-healthcare-boosts-patient-care-perfcon
This article examines the use of predictive modeling to improve outcomes, as well as the resource requirements to facilitate implementation.
Can Predictive Analytics Drive Implementation Research to Improve Population Health?
Genomics and Precision Health. https://blogs.cdc.gov/genomics/2019/05/28/can-predictive-analytics/
This webpage examines the use of predictive tools around researching the implementation of initiatives and policies within the context of public health.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FROM THE PROFESSOR
Happy Wednesday. I’m sharing with you some helpful tips for your assignment due this Sunday. I encourage you to use the grading rubric as a guide to completing. your assignment. Your submission should have the following set up.
• Title page
• Introduction – 3 sentences is sufficient
• New paragraph- Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community. This is essentially a summary of your first assignment in 1 paragraph.
• New Paragraph- Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations. Supports assertion by using at least one piece of evidence (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resource).
• New Paragraph or 2 -Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans. Cites at least four relevant evidence-based or scholarly sources to support explanation. This is like a mini literature review.
• New paragraph- Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan. Notes the specific economic benefits for patients and the organization.
• Reference page
As always effective writing and proper APA formatting should be completed at the graduate level. Reach out if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
