The purpose of a needs assessment is to identify priorities of a community or patient population. The findings of a needs assessment can be an extremely useful tool to help organize and plan care decisions for a specific patient or group. By conducting

For this assessment, you will complete an evidence-based patient-centered needs assessment of prospective health care technology that will improve patient engagement. You will write a 4-5 page paper explaining the process and considerations that went into completing the patient needs assessment. Not including title page and references page

 Introduction

Evidence-based practice is a key skill in the toolkit of the master’s-prepared nurse. Its goal is that health care practitioners use the best available evidence to improve population health outcomes and make the best clinical decisions (Gallagher et al., 2020). In essence, evidence-based practice is all about ensuring quality care.

For this assessment will begin to apply some of the evidence-based practice strategies you have learned to ensure quality care for an individual patient. The primary strategy that you will utilize to accomplish this is an evidence-based patient-centered needs assessment. A patient-centered needs assessment can help you organize the relationships between ideas, challenges, or terms to utilize the best evidence to plan interventions. The overall goal of the resources and this assessment is to allow you the opportunity to apply evidence-based practice and personalized care concepts in order to improve the health of a single patient.

Reference

Gallagher, F. L., Koshy Thomas, B., Connor, L., Sinnott, L. T., & Melnyk, B. M. (2020). The effects of an intensive evidence‐based practice educational and skills building program on EBP competency and attributes. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 17(1), 71–81.

Professional Context

Patient-centered needs assessment is a critical element in nursing care. The findings from the needs assessment can be effective tools for organizing a plan of action, prioritizing patient care strategies, and developing personalized care approaches that improve patient engagement. In addition to organizing care, they can aid in ensuring that the patient’s care is individualized to their health conditions as well as familial, cultural, and environmental circumstances.

Scenario

The purpose of a needs assessment is to identify priorities of a community or patient population. The findings of a needs assessment can be an extremely useful tool to help organize and plan care decisions for a specific patient or group. By conducting a needs assessment, a nurse can then use the best evidence to guide the interventions selected to meet the identified needs and improve patient engagement.

Instructions

Develop a 4–5 page patient-centered needs assessment to demonstrate how to leverage health care technology to improve patient engagement and outcomes for a specific patient population. This could focus on a disease or a disorder based on the best available evidence that has been individualized to treat your patient’s health, economic, and cultural needs.

The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the rubric. Be sure that your paper addresses all of the bullets below, at minimum. If you are having a difficult time choosing a topic, review the Healthy People 2030 topics and try to find a topic that is interesting and relevant to you.

·        Identify the importance of addressing patient engagement in the management of a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs based on the best available evidence.

o   Why is patient engagement necessary to ensure that patients are better able to manage their specific health conditions?

o   What evidence in the current literature (published within the last fiveyears) supports the benefit of patient engagement?

·        Explain the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population.

o   Consider what type of health care technology modalities are useful to improve consumer health literacy

o   Are there mobile applications, telehealth features, or other technology that can facilitate improving patient care?

·        Evaluate the value and relevance of the technology modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment.

o   How does each proposed technology modality encourage patient engagement in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way?

o   Ensure that your strategies:

§  Promote honest communications.

§  Facilitate sharing only the information you are required and permitted to share.

§  Enable you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and their family regardless of language, abilities, or educational level.

o   Consider how health information exchange and interoperability of technology modalities contribute to their value.

·        Identify innovative strategies for leveraging technology to support quality, ethical, and efficient patient care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the identified patient population.

o   Consider how the selected technology impacts the patient in the most efficient way.

o   Is the selected technology culturally and linguistically appropriate?

·        Explain how the proposed strategies will mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes due to inequity in access to patient personal health data and technology modalities.

o   What are potential risks that could lead to adverse outcomes for certain members of the population?

o   How will those risks be mitigated?

o   How have your proposed strategies been used previously to address inequities and risks?

·        Convey purpose of the assessment narrative in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

·        Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Submission Requirements

·        Length of narrative: 4–5 double-spaced, typed pages. Your narrative should be succinct yet substantive.

·        Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source materials defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work. Be sure you are citing evidence to support that your information is evidence based.

·        APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Competencies Measured

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

·        Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.

o   Identify the importance of addressing patient engagement in the management of a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs based on the best available evidence.

·        Competency 3: Evaluate the value, relevance, and ethics of available evidence upon which clinical decisions are made.

o   Evaluate the value and relevance of the technology modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment.

·        Competency 4: Integrate evidence-based practice, technology tools, and scholarly research to address patient and population needs.

o   Explain the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population.

o   Identify innovative strategies for leveraging technology to support quality, ethical, and efficient patient care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the identified patient population.

o   Explain how the proposed strategies will mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes due to inequity in access to patient personal health data and technology modalities.

·        Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

o   Convey purpose of the assessment narrative in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

o   Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

 

 

Criterion 1

Identify the importance of addressing patient engagement in the management of a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs based on the best available evidence.

Distinguished

Identifies the importance of addressing patient engagement in the management of a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs based on the best available evidence. Provides specific examples of patient engagement strategies that would be appropriate to apply to the chosen patient.

Proficient

Identifies the importance of addressing patient engagement in the management of a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs based on the best available evidence.

Basic

Identifies reasons for why patient engagement is important, but does not do so within the context of one or more of a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs based on the best available evidence.

Non Performance

Does not identify reasons for why patient engagement is important.

Criterion 2

Explain the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population.

Distinguished

Explains the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population. Supports explanation with specific reference to evidence from professional best-practice or scholarly sources. Identifies unanswered questions or areas of uncertainty about the individual needs of the patient or their family, where further information could improve the analysis.

Proficient

Explains the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population.

Basic

Identifies the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population.

Non Performance

Does not identify the potential use and impact of information and communication technology tools needed to improve consumer health literacy for a specific patient population.

Criterion 3

Evaluate the value and relevance of the technology modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment.

Distinguished

Evaluates the value and relevance of the technology modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment. Notes how exchange and interoperability of technology modalities contribute to their value. Notes specific ways in which the communication strategies promote honest communication, facilitate sharing only information that is permitted under data privacy rules, and help to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and their family, regardless of language, abilities, or educational level.

Proficient

Evaluates the value and relevance of the technology modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment.

Basic

Explains technology modalities that may be used to modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment, but does not offer a full evaluation of the value and relevance of these modalities.

Non Performance

Does not explain technology modalities that may be used to modalities that may be used to address the needs identified in the patient population assessment.

Criterion 4

Identify innovative strategies for leveraging technology to support quality, ethical, and efficient patient care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the identified patient population.

Distinguished

Identifies innovative strategies for leveraging technology to support quality, ethical, and efficient patient care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the identified patient population. Make reference to evidence from professional best-practices or scholarly sources to support the use of the identified strategies.

Proficient

Identifies innovative strategies for leveraging technology to support quality, ethical, and efficient patient care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate for the identified patient population.

Basic

Identifies strategies for leveraging technology to support patient care. However, does not fully address how that technology relates to quality, ethical, and efficient patient care that is culturally or linguistically appropriate for the patient population.

Non Performance

Does not identify strategies for leveraging technology to support patient care.

Criterion 5

Explain how the proposed strategies will mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes due to inequity in access to patient personal health data and technology modalities.

Distinguished

Explains how the proposed strategies will mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes due to inequity in access to patient personal health data and technology modalities. Supports the explanation with specific examples of strategies that have previously been applied to mitigate risks and address inequities.

Proficient

Explains how the proposed strategies will mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes due to inequity in access to patient personal health data and technology modalities.

Basic

Describes how the proposed strategies may mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes, but the connection to inequity in access to patient personal health data or technology modalities is either unclear or missing.

Non Performance

Does not describe how the proposed strategies may mitigate the risk of adverse outcomes.

Criterion 6

Convey purpose of the assessment narrative in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

Distinguished

Conveys clear purpose of the assessment narrative, in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards, including APA style and formatting.

Proficient

Convey purpose of the assessment narrative in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards. Uses APA style and formatting.

Basic

Conveys purpose of the assessment narrative, in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence and minimal adherence to applicable communication standards.

Non Performance

Does not convey purpose of the assessment narrative, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and communication scholarly standards.

Criterion 7

Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Distinguished

Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to APA style of in-text citations and references.

Proficient

Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Basic

Integrates credible sources of evidence, but the sources used is not relevant or do not well- support assertions. APA formatting of in-text citations and references is incorrect or inconsistent, detracting noticeably from good scholarship.

Non Performance

Does not integrate credible sources of evidence or apply APA formatting to in- text citations and references.