Program Evaluation And Measurement Tools

The lack of knowledge and confidence of obtaining a manual blood pressure is an ever growing issue in the healthcare field. This paper will outline the importance of taking a manual blood pressure accurately. Providing the proper blood pressure measurement can determine a patient’s care and outcome when in a healthcare facility. I will talk about the pros and cons of manual blood pressures and personal experience of this vital skill in the healthcare field. I will also provide some simple but effect ways to increase confidence and knowledge by just basic education. All of my information and numbers will be supported by using references and studies in the use of manual blood pressure monitoring.

The educational intervention will focus on diet approaches to stop HTN (DASH) diet, alcohol intake, smoking cessation, weight management, adherence to medication, self-management, stress management, and exercising based on prevailing guideline recommendations developed by Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (James et al., 2014).

According to Rural Health Information Hub (2017), the fundamental purpose of disease prevention is to keep individuals healthy. One implements health promotion interventions in an effort to promote healthy behaviors and to decrease the risks of developing chronic illnesses (RHIH, 2017). According to the ADA (2016) individuals that participate in health promotion behaviors are more likely to have better health outcomes compared to those who do not. The EBP change project has shown that educating patients with prediabetes can increase diabetes knowledge and promote an increase in health promotion behaviors. The EBP change project outcome has indicated that participants who completed the 6-week diabetes education program were able to increase their knowledge regarding type 2 diabetes. Therefore, with the positive outcome of the EBP change project, the EBP change project site can incorporate certain aspects of the diabetes education program into their patient education to increase diabetes knowledge, picking healthier food options and participants in activities that would increase physical fitness.

Understanding whether education and self-efficacy increases adherence to health behavior modification is significant in the nursing world, because it suggests that nurses play a dominant role in patient teaching. As nurses, it is crucial to utilize patient teaching and supporting skills to ensure quality care and better health outcomes in the long run. When a patient is educated, it increase’s their confidence to participate in treatment, improves outcomes, and encourages better health habits. Feeling confident in one’s abilities is key to maintaining adherence to medical regimens, and health behaviors. Patient education can be done in various ways including, PowerPoint’s, handouts, and videos.

* The U.S. High Blood Pressure Education Program is a public-private cooperative effort formed to help reduce death and disability related to hypertension, which is at the root of 50% of those suffering heart attacks and two-thirds of those suffering strokes. Using a campaign that integrates social marketing to first build awareness of the “silent killer,” and then encourage action, awareness of the problem more than tripled to over 90% and those seeking treatment more than doubled within a single decade.

First of all, we decided to set up a booth to check free blood pressures and provide dietary education (DASH diet) to its locals. This will not only help in identifying people with high blood pressure, but also help them to understand how to make healthy eating habits. Secondly, we are planning to give out handouts using pictures or drawings, basically adopting 6th or 7th grade level, to various physicians’ offices, hospitals, health departments, and pharmacies, to promote hypertension teaching among those who have low literacy levels. Moreover, we are going to encourage churches, hospitals, grocery stores, health departments, and physicians’ offices to educate people on healthy eating, diet, and importance of physical

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I have chosen the research topic of medication non-compliance, specifically regarding high blood pressure medication. I see patients very often at my job who do not take their medication because they say they feel fine or they forgot. I do teach my patients that they need to take their medication every day and suggest to take it at the same time as something they already do daily such as eating breakfast but my words seem to fall on deaf ears. Some patients don’t like the way the medication makes them feel so they just stop taking it instead of going back to their doctor. I believe that more visual aids in teaching such as videos that show what is happening inside your body when your pressure is high in addition to meeting stroke patients

This project was an observational program evaluation. The purpose of this project was to evaluate 30-day readmission, medication compliance and outcomes of patient who received traditional care (services provided prior to October 1, 2015) to that of patient who received care from Post Myocardial Infarction Transitional Care Program and Advanced Practice Provider Transitional Care Clinic (which started October 1, 2015). This project focused on evaluation of the following questions:

A process evaluation is a tool utilized to identify the key components of intervention that are effective and under what conditions. Additionally it also evaluates the extent to which a program is being implemented as planned. A process evaluation can be broken down into six steps which are depicted in the diagram below. In order to engage stake holders the process must begin at the evaluation cycle. Stakeholders in regards to our program include those who are directly involved with program operations. This includes the staff utilized to procure supplies and equipment, those involved in the delivery of supplies equipment, those who distribute educational materials, those that perform diabetic testing and those that interact with the target

This health promotion class does not have patient/participant outcome measures. The facilitators have yet to create a system that measures health outcomes within its participants. It is important for health promotion programs and classes to measure health outcome in order to identify areas that need improvement or adjustments. Nonetheless, the class believes it is effective since it is identifying older adults with hypertension.

Hypertension (HTN) is a chronic disease that can affect young and old worldwide. As the population ages understanding and ability to follow the prescribed plan of care can decline. To prevent chronic diseases related to uncontrolled HTN, nurses provide education regarding the prescribed plan of care. Nurses assure that patients can understand and follow through with this plan of care. At first glance it appears that Machado et al. provide information that may help guide today’s nurse in providing education appropriate to the elderly patient with hypertension. Due in part to problems with understanding related to language and cultural barriers, Machado et al. fall short in their presentation.

Thank you for sharing an interesting program implementation. In using specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely (SMART) goals and objectives, it is critical to mention your program timeframes. One of SMART model exhibits the need to provide measurable outcomes that will enable one 's model to meet the specific timeline (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013; Project Smart, 2016). Scheduling a timeline is vital in a program to measure and track progress in a public health

In this portion of the evaluative assignments, there will be an analysis to assess the role and function of evaluations and processes with the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS). ADHS is a large and complex agency which encompasses many departments, divisions, and offices. As a result, each component and program collects different data and evaluates their capacities differently. Therefore, for this evaluation capacity analysis, the program that will be focused on is, the High Risk Perinatal Program/ Newborn Intensive Care Program (HRPP/NICP) within the Bureau of Women and Children’s Health (BWCH), Office of Children’s Health (OCH). This capacity analysis draws on data collected from previous evaluations, as well as data compiled from conversations with agency staff. With this data, the paper will discuss forms of data collected, the processes used to collect data, key players, reporting procedures, a discussion of how data is used within the agency, and a discussion of previous evaluations undertaken to assess the HRPP/NICP program. The purpose of the overall

Another intervention is patient education such as teaching what is considered hypertension, how to check the