Category: Nursing

Understanding Program Planning and Evaluation

Objectives

1.1 Relate program planning to grant proposals.

1.2 Define key terminology related to program planning.

1.3 Compare program planning with program evaluation.

1.4 Identify political and technical aspects of program planning and evaluation.

Explain the relationship between program planning and grant proposals. When describing each component, address their similarities and differences as well as how they relate to each other.

Program Planning and Evaluation Paper Read all of the fictional program scenarios and choose one to work with throughout the course.

Compare program planning with program evaluation in human services organizations. Describe how the two components are related.

Identify specific examples of how program planning and evaluation interrelate in your chosen scenario

Identify technical and political aspects of program planning and evaluation you might encounter in the program scenario you chose, and explain how these aspects could affect your planning and evaluation process.

Setting goals can be effective motivation. What should a manager and employee do in order to make goal setting effective?

Program Planning and Grant Proposal Writing in Human Services course provides practical knowledge in program planning, grant proposal writing, and program evaluation. Students will examine the planning process from conceptualization to implementation and evaluation. Also discussed is how to locate private and public funding for human service programs and agencies.

You are a manager of a 5-member customer service team. Two members of the team are stars, and the other three members are average workers. The two star team members are competitive,and their competition creates friction within your team. What can you do to respond to this conflict? Why?

How often do you find yourself on the edge of compassion fatigue (with your family, your friends, your coworkers, your patients, your clients)? Do you think they can read it in your face? What can you do to be sure you have the emotional reserves to do what you need to do?

Develop your own opinion about what constitutes social class. Give evidence to support your opinion. Discuss a situation from your own experience in which you personally witnessed the relationship that exists between social class and an individual’s health. Your response should be at least 300 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. Any references or citations used should be in APA style.

The fundamental-cause theory suggests that those with greater access to resources will experience better health because of those resources, regardless of changes in cause, time, or situation. Do you agree with this theory? Do you believe that this truth only applies to those with a higher social status? Explain your position and provide at least one supporting fact to Fundamental-Cause Theory. Your response should be at least 300 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. Any references or citations used should be in APA style.

From Private to Non-Profit—The Organizational Change Process

Your Learning Team is a Quality Management Team at a health care organization. Your company is preparing for a large organizational change and has asked your team to ready the managing staff for the upcoming change. Resources: Barriers of Change Product grading criteria on the student website Prepare an original product that outlines the barriers to change and factors that influence change. Products might include one of the following: 3 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for group training Include the following in your product: Describe possible organizational and individual barriers to change.

The Joint Commission provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using these resources and any other guidelines/examples you can find, make up your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients. The spiritual-needs assessment tool should include a minimum of five questions that can either be answered by the patient and/or by your observation of the patient. The information can be presented in a Word document, in a table, or in questionnaire format. Using your assessment-tool questions, practice completing a spiritual assessment with a patient, family member, or friend. Once complete, analyze your results in 750-1000 words, with the following: Write a brief summary of your assessment findings. What significant discoveries did you make about the individual you chose to assess? What went well? What would you do differently in the future? Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges? Describe the spiritual experience you had with your patient, family member, or friend using this tool. How does this tool allow you to better meet the needs of your patient?

Write a paper describing the approach to care of cancer. In addition, include the following in your paper: 1. Describe the diagnosis and staging of cancer. 2. Describe at least three complications of cancer, the side effects of treatment, and methods to lessen physical and psychological effects. 3. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines. An abstract is not required.