IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE THE RURAL, HOME CARE OR PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY THAT YOUR TEAM SELECTED FOR YOUR COURSE PROJECT.

24 Jun IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE THE RURAL, HOME CARE OR PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY THAT YOUR TEAM SELECTED FOR YOUR COURSE PROJECT.

Setting Type: Home Care of Public Health Agency

Synopsis: You and your team members have been assigned to the Midwest region of the United States. To begin your project, your team

will select an existing home care or public health agency within a rural setting in the Midwest region. If you have a team member

who lives and works in this region, he or she might identify a setting for your team to research. If no team members live or work

in the Midwest region, each team member should conduct research to identify home care or public health agencies.
After conducting preliminary research, select one setting that fulfills the above requirements. Before making your selection, be

sure to review this document in its entirety to ensure that your team will be able to locate all required information about this

setting via information on the Internet.
Focus: The focus of your project is to analyze the patient education needs of your selected setting. To do this, your team must

first conduct a needs assessment of the factors that influence the health education needs of thisrural population. Based on the

information gained through your needs assessment, your team will develop the basis for a patient education program within this

setting.
While it would be beneficial for your team to develop a detailed educational program for this agency, it is not the focus of this

project. For the purposes of this project, you will use the information collected from your needs assessment to develop a

hypothetical educational program based on real data.
Assigning Team Roles: In order for you to function effectively as a team, it is suggested that you identify a Team Captain (and/or

co-captain), a recorder, a coordinator for managing the assigned activities, a time keeper for setting and keeping deadlines, and

any other roles you feel are needed. Members may remain in these roles throughout the Course Project, or team members may alternate

between various roles during each part of the project.
It is also important to note that though this is a team project, individual effort and participation accounts for a percentage of

your grade. By Day 7 of Week 10, each team member will submit a Team Evaluation Form (presented in Week 2’s Learning Resources)

that details the contributions of each team member. Throughout your project, your Instructor will provide grades and feedback on an

individual basis. You will also receive an overall team grade.

The information that follows outlines the process your team will undertake in developing an educational program for your selected

home care or public health agency. Note that each section corresponds to a week of the course. It is strongly recommended that your

team completes each section during the identified week.

Part 1: Needs Assessment
Part 1 begins in Week 2 and ends in Week 4.

Directions: For Sections A, B, and C, your team will outline your research in bullet and/or paragraph form. The information you

provide will not be graded for grammar but for the quality of research you have gathered for each section. Ultimately, the

information you include in each section should aid you in completing your Final Submission for this part of your Course Project.

Section A: Determining the Need
Respond to each of the following in bullet or paragraph form during Week 2 of the course.

1. Know your clinical agency:
• Identify and describe the rural, home care or public health agency that your team selected for your Course Project.

2. Know your audience:
• Whose needs are you measuring? Do they represent a group of people or a target population?
• To whomwould you deliver your needs assessmentdataif you were actually presenting this information to your selected

setting?

3. Know your data:
• Identify the type of data (health statistics, education levels, comparable home care/public health agencies in the area)

that you need to gather to learn more about your region, your setting, and your patient population.
• If you were a nurse educator within this setting, how would you gather data about your region’s population?
o Identify the instruments and/or methods you would use and how each would help you to better assess the needs of this

specific population. For example, would you utilize websites,surveys, interviews, focus groups, working groups, observations, or

tests and why?
• Realistically, considering the scope of this project and your available resources, how will you gather authentic data about

your region’s population?
o Identify the instruments and/or methods you will use and explain how each will help you to better assess the needs of this

specific population.

4. Know your action plan:
• Explain how you will analyze the data that you collect.

Questions adapted from: McCawley, P. (2009). Methods for conducting an educational needs assessment: Guidelines for cooperative

extension system professionals. University of Idaho, Extension.

Section B: External Factors

As a team, collect information on the external frame factors that influence the home care/public health agency and possible patient

education needs. As you complete this section, use the following questions to help guide your research:

What are the major demographics of the regional population that this setting serves?What are the major health problems and diseases

in the population that could be preventable? Are there implications for health education as it applies to these populations? How do

disease rates in this specific population compare to national morbidity and mortality rates?

Respond to each of the following in bullet or paragraph form during Week 3 of the course.

Describe the community in which your selected setting is located.

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