NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR CHANGE

NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR CHANGE

 

Background and Context

As a masters level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organizations outcomes. In this weeks 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.

Instructions

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.

Be sure to reflect on the readings and discussions you have completed so far and consider how the content of these activities might inform your approach to this assignment. Ask your instructor any questions you have about the assignment.

Additional Requirements

  • Length of Submission:  35 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.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Centers page.

SCORING GUIDE

Your work will be evaluated using this criteria.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
    • Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
  • Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
    • Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
  • Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
    • Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
  • Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
    • Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
  • Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
    • Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards

Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Introduction

As a professional, you will always be aware of the impact of your decisions on others. You may be tempted to focus only on your own interests at times, but this can lead to problems down the road. By understanding how your actions affect others and then taking steps to address those issues, you’ll be able to make better decisions in your work life.

What is the economic issue you want to summarize?

The economic issue you want to summarize is important because it impacts your organization, colleagues and community. You should be able to clearly articulate how this issue affects each of these groups.

Which of these do you need to address in your summary?

As you are completing this section, consider which of these issues are important to your organization or community. If any of them aren’t really important to you or your colleagues, then perhaps it’s time to leave that issue out of your summary.

  • Importance: How much does this matter in terms of how your work impacts the world? What does this mean for people’s lives? Does it make a difference whether we treat each other fairly and with respect? Does it matter if we take care of our planet and its resources so that future generations can enjoy them too (see also: sustainability)?
  • Impact on Organization: How does this issue affect the way we run our business? Is there an opportunity here for improvement in how we do things around here. Would improving our performance based on these factors increase profits or save money over time (or both)? What kind of impact will addressing these issues have on morale at work – especially among certain groups within the organization such as leadership teams who may benefit more than others from improved communication channels between departments/teams/people across departments etcetera).

Is this an important topic for your organization?

Your organization should be able to answer this question. If they can’t, it might be time to consider whether you are working in the right industry.

This is an important issue for your organization and its employees, customers, suppliers, competitors and the community at large.

Do you think this will be a topic that is relevant for your colleagues or community members?

If the topic is relevant to your colleagues or community members, it will be easier for them to understand what you are saying.

If the topic is relevant to your colleagues or community members, then they may be able to share their own stories about how this issue has affected them personally. This can help ensure that your summary is accurate and meaningful!

Be aware of how much time it takes us as individuals to understand how our actions affect others.

We have the opportunity to be aware of how much time it takes us as individuals to understand how our actions affect others. This includes being aware of the impact on society, environment and ourselves.

This is important because we need to be able to make informed decisions about what we do with our time, money and talents.

Conclusion

We are all connected to one another. We live in a world where we interact with others and these interactions shape our lives. The way in which we engage with them can have a huge impact on the world around us, even if it seems small at first glance. As individuals and organizations, we should be aware of how much time it takes us as individuals to understand how our actions affect others.

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