Developing an Evaluation Plan and Disseminating Evidence

Developing an Evaluation Plan and Disseminating Evidence
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Evaluation Plan
The evaluation of this project will require a full-time assessment team that will lead the development and execution of a comprehensive project evaluation (Brim & Schoonover, 2014). The purpose of the evaluation is to focus on the impact of the new plan intended to reduce nurse turnover, improve job satisfaction, and positively impact the overall delivery of care. The proposed plan involves periodic training of the nurses’ staff, hiring more nurses, and bringing on board a break nurse and a resource nurse (Boyle, 2011). The evaluation purposes to ensure that the proposed plan accomplishes proposed output and outcome measurements (CDC, 2011). The results of this assessment will be shared with the nursing staff, the program management staff, and all the health workers community within the hospital to assist with future planning and continuous improvement efforts.
The evaluation will address the following key questions:
• Does the new plan result in low nurse turnover rate within the hospital?
• Does the program lead to improved nursing staff job satisfaction?
• Are the improvements in job satisfaction positively influence the overall delivery of care?
Method
The assessment team will conduct a pre and post participant survey to evaluate the new program (CDC, 2011). A staff of 25 nurses will complete a member survey that evaluates their attitudes and contributions to job satisfaction and dissatisfaction before the initiation of change and after initiating change. The stakeholders such as the HR manager, CEO, CNO, and DOU and ICU director will also complete the participant survey. The survey research would enable the organization to measure the need for the proposed solution (Training nurses on how to cope with CF and taking care of the nurses’ well-being by the administration) and the usefulness of the new plan.
The evaluation team will also obtain turnover rates before and after the initiation of the new program. They will acquire this data from the human resource department database, which stores all information concerning the organization’s incoming and outgoing employees. In addition, the team will compare patient discharge surveys before and after the initiation of the plan. The patient discharge surveys would enable them to determine if the new program has resulted in improved care delivery or not.
Variables
A variable is anything that varies; something that can change, for example weight, height, idea, anxiety levels among others (Kaur, 2013). The variables that the evaluation team will assess when evaluating project outcomes include staff attitudes and perceptions, patient attitudes and perceptions, and the rate of nursing staff turnover. The nursing staff is an important variable because they are the primary care providers who get in contact with the patients most of the times, and their well-being greatly influences patient outcomes. Patient attitudes and perceptions are also critical factors in the evaluation process, as they are the benchmarks from which the assessment team meas...