Developing an Evaluation Plan

Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Evaluation Plan Author`s Name Institution After implementation of the proposed changes, an evaluation will be undertaken in order to discern the effectiveness of the intervention. This plan will cover evaluation of implementation objectives, outcome objectives and the procedures for managing and monitoring the evaluation process. The target populations during the evaluation include adult patients with mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and nursing staff. Mild OSA is patients with apnea/hypopnea Index (AHI) of less than 15 (Colm & Maxine, 2011). The intervention to be evaluated is the incorporation of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) as an additional treatment modality to weight reduction and positional intervention during sleep. The outcomes are related to improvement in the quality of life in patients with OSA, decreased complications rates in OSA, and increased patient and nursing staff satisfaction. On the evaluation of implementation objectives, measurable terms will include the timeframe, the project implementers and the patients treated. The implementation timeframe will be one year. The Project implementers include the nursing staffs working in the internal medicine outpatient clinic and those that deal with service delivery to patients with respiratory problems. The information to be collected includes the number of nursing staff attending to patients with mild OSA in the given duration. The number of patients treated for mild OSA will also be collected. Confidentiality of information will be maintained during the evaluation (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2010). The data will be collected from the first implementation date to the last date during the one year duration. Patients` records will be accessed in assessing this information. On the evaluation of the outcome objectives, data will be collected on various outcomes. To begin with, the rate of complications of OSA will be analyzed...