Name
Capella University
NURS-FPX-6111: Assessment and Evaluation in Nursing Education
Instructor’s Name
October, 2024
Course Definition and Alignment Table
The selected course of this paper concerns the illnesses that entail nursing care in community health centers. All enrolled nurses who wish to strengthen their knowledge and enhance their ability in the care of clients with ongoing illnesses in a community health care center setting should enroll in this course (Bloomfield et al., 2023). Some of the aspects of chronic illnesses in the course will include, assessment, diagnosis, therapy, and prevention among many others.
Course Description to Support Educational Program Outcomes
Course Title
“Nursing Care in a Community Health Center for Patients with Chronic Illnesses”
Course Description
The fact that the morbidity rate is high in many community health centers, registered nurses should be informed of practices and techniques that would enable them to provide the best treatment for chronic individuals.
Vision
In other words, the goal of the course is to prepare registered nurses for efficient, high-quality nursing care of members in the community with chronic illnesses seeking services at the health center.
Rationale
Most of the individuals from different parts of the world live with fatal diseases that is chronic illnesses. Diabetes, high blood pressure, and general heart diseases are some of the top killers in America, and these are diseases that contribute a huge percentage to medical charges (Cohen et al., 2021). In the management of diseases and to achieve patients’ satisfaction, nurses are very important. Indeed many nurses do not possess adequate experience that is needed in treating patients with chronic diseases. This course helps meet these knowledge deficiencies by equipping the nurse with the ability and knowledge necessary to manage patients with chronic diseases to optimal potential.
Align Learning Objectives to Program Outcomes
Course Learning Objectives
- The level of detail will be in the evidence-based interventions which will be the work of the nurses.
- The overall task of appraising and supervising people with chronic diseases becomes less complicated.
- Indeed, the task involves developing highly provocative yet systematic interventions to address the patients affected by the disease.
- Promoting the learning objectives, and encouraging the nurses to focus on engaging with stakeholders of the organization is also under the goals of the learning objectives.
- Since self-care activities are critical to patient outcomes, nurses will focus on patient teaching and counseling.
- For registered nurses, factors regarded to ethical standards of patients as well as their critical thinking skills will be highlighted here.
- Designing and developing online simulation games for licensed practical nurses.
Program Description
This continuing education program is for the registered nurse who wants to update his /her competencies and knowledge in providing care to patients at the CHCs to those with chronic illnesses (Cohen et al., 2021). The disease-specific knowledge would improve through taking more online courses, workshops, and practical sessions to understand surely about the pathophysiology of such diseases, diagnosis, treatment, and management of Chronic diseases. It may include self-study at a computer in online content and Web-based modules, short workshops, and case and skills practices that allow the nurse to enhance easily and rapidly. This course will take 12 weeks and each week the learner should be willing to take 30 hours of training.
Program Outcomes
Improving the quality of the patient’s health will utilize nursing care, as a method of dealing with chronic ailments, by the implemented nursing practice. These are technologies that the nurses will employ in the management of care being delivered to those patients suffering from chronic diseases (Flaherty, 2019). They recommend that all patients with chronic illness should always be evaluated and supervised to make sure that their diseases do not have the following repercussions. A comprehensive care plan makes it easy for the nurses to comprehend the chronic patient problems quickly. Hence through the identification of the concerns of chronic patients, the nurses will be able to work as a team and therefore be in a position to provide the best care (Omboni et al., 2020). This will improve their teamwork. The leadership potential of the nurses will also be under development. It is important to demonstrate an ethical and critical approach to solving problems concerning chronically ill and complicated patients.
Identification of Assumption
However, the proposal is also based on the belief that registered nurses are willing to expand their experience on how to handle patients with chronic diseases in a community health center context (Van et al., 2023). They are encountered by numerous patients and are among the most important issues in many areas of healthcare. I believe that nurses will stand to gain from the many learning activities incorporated in the course, which will enhance their efficiency.
| Number | Learning Objectives | Program Outcomes | External Standards |
| 1 | Emphasizes interventions based on evidence | To improve patient well-being, nurses will manage chronic diseases using evidence-based nursing interventions. To improve the nursing care they provide to patients with chronic illnesses, nurses will make use of technological interventions. | The Nursing Practice Act of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) places a strong emphasis on the value of providing patients with chronic conditions with evidence-based nursing care and on leveraging technology to improve nursing care delivery (Riegel et al., 2021). |
| 2 | Examine and keep an eye on individuals with long-term illnesses | To guarantee proper disease care and avoid problems, nurses can evaluate | The significance of delivering safe, effective care is emphasized by the |
| and keep an eye on patients with chronic illnesses. | Nursing Practice Act of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (Zhang et al., 2024). | ||
| 3 | Creation of thorough care plans for patients. | The efficient understanding of chronic patient problems nurses can be facilitated by the implementation of a complete care plan. | Regarding the assessment, diagnosis, planning, execution, and evaluation of nursing care for patients with chronic diseases, the American Nurses Association (ANA) has established Standards of Practice (Melhem et al., 2021). |
| 4 | Urge nurses to concentrate on working together with other organization stakeholders. | By quickly understanding the concerns of chronic patients, nurses will be able to work as a team to give the best treatment possible. This will improve | American Nurses Association (ANA) Practice Standards.The curriculum has a strong emphasis on |
| their collaborative abilities. The leadership abilities of nurses will also improve (Melhem et al., 2021). | maintaining professional development, using patient education, and working in conjunction with other healthcare providers (Melhem et al., 2021). | ||
| 5 | Emphasize ethical standards for treating patients and critical thinking abilities. | Assist nurses in exhibiting critical thinking abilities when diagnosing and treating complicated patients with long-term conditions. Follow ethical guidelines when providing medical care to patients with chronic conditions (Zhang et al., 2024). | The NCSBN Nursing Practice Act places a strong emphasis on upholding moral principles. |
| 6 | Creating online simulation games for licensed practical nurses. | Because the virtual game is built on scenarios involving chronic patients and how nurses will effectively handle patients, it will assist nurses in improving their clinical practices towards these patients. | The ANA created a variety of exercises to improve nurses’ capacity for learning. |
Part 2 – Memo to Department Supervisor
To, Department Supervisor,
The current letter is to request approval to offer a Continuing Education course for Registered Nurses practicing in the community health center. The new proposed course is aptly titled ‘Chronic Disease Management in the Community Health Center Setting’ which would enable imparting the necessary knowledge and skills needed by the nurses in the management of patients having chronic diseases (Vo, 2021).
Chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases are prevalent and nurses need to be prepared to respond to these patients effectively (Vo, 2021). The need for such a course will therefore be met as this course will enhance the knowledge of nurses on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and management of Chronic diseases, as well as impart to the nurses the skills that will enable them to provide the requisite, optimum nursing care to patients with these diseases.
This course may be taken by nurses who may feel that they require enhancement in their knowledge level, to meet the standards of care expected of a health center that mainly deals with patients with chronic diseases within the health center (Haahr et al., 2020). Pre and post-course knowledge assessment checklists, skills practice, and post-appraisal will be used in the assessment of the effectiveness of the course. Likewise, skills can be assessed through detailed demonstration and tests, questionnaires that can also be used to determine the extent to which, a course improves productivity among the nurses involved (Fitzgerald, 2020). Employing the assessment design method, an assessment of the efficiency of the course in enhancing the knowledge and know-how of the nurses will be carried out.
As part of the evaluation design method, skill demonstrations, as well as assessments, still leave one guessing how real the above-said simulations would be in portraying a real-life patient care environment in a CHC (Fitzgerald, 2020). Perhaps, more studies could be done to identify the best ways of evaluating the impact of continuing education programs on patients. Literature supports the need for the suggested course. In one particularly enlightening analysis of the research, patients can be served better if they stick to the treatment regime, and doctors should urge them to do so for chronic disease.
Another peer-reviewed study is nurses’ patient-centered care for chronic patients In an attempt to foster patient well-being and promote involvement in the treatment process (Riegel et al., 2021). Since patients may succumb to recurrent infections caused by unclosed sores, there is increased focus on investigating the role of patient-centered care offered by healthcare practitioners in increasing clients’ success in wound care.
To support my suggestion, it is now recommended to offer this suggested continuing education course to our community health center’s registered nurses (Cohen et al., 2021). This training will enhance our program offering and enable the nurses to acquire vital knowledge and skills in the management of chronic illnesses. We would appreciate the chance to discuss further this suggestion and give any additional information that is required.
Thank you for considering this proposal.
Align Appropriate Professional Standards and Regulations
We shall apply the following criteria to make sure that the learning objectives of the nursing education course are in line with the relevant professional standards and laws:
In any case, the competencies that are highlighted for the nursing field are given by the American Nurses Association (ANA), and the learning objectives should incorporate them (Haahr et al., 2020). A number of these competencies include; patient-centered care, care coordination and communication, application of evidence-based integrated processes, quality, safety, and information management. Diplomatically, the goals and objectives of the course will be to comply with the Nurse Practice Act and, if necessary, state legislation (Bloomfield et al., 2023). This includes areas of practice, legal and ethical issues as well as theories and skills relevant to the practice of nursing. Furthermore, they can be considered concerning some parameters which are set by the NCSBN. These guidelines help to ensure that the nurse education programs reach the set standards as far as efficiency and quality are concerned.
Evaluation of Alignment Criteria
We will apply the following criteria to assess how well the learning objectives correspond with professional norms and laws: Regarding the content of the course, the outcome-based competencies that are fundamental in nursing, but which are to be taught in the course should be stated in the learning objectives of the course and how they are going to be incorporated in the design (Haahr et al., 2020). It is recommended that the learning objectives should be resent to nursing professionals and various stakeholders to ensure compliance of the certain course to the Nurse Practice Act as well as the laws of the state in which the course will be conducted. In light of this, while designing the course, the learning objectives should be aligned with the ANA, NPA, and NCSBN standards. If there are blanks or weak links, they have to be addressed.
NURS FPX 6111 Assessment 1 Conclusion
These patients should be closely monitored since other conditions associated with this disease may get worse. To join forces of improving the health of the patient and improving the quality of the treatment it is only right that the nurses’ services be incorporated (Disch, 2020). To develop the above-discussed knowledge, the course of patient-centered care for patients with chronic diseases will be undertaken in a community health center. The essays show that nurses can also improve on treatment progress once they synchronize their movements and better still learn how to deal with chronic patients’ afflictions.
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