Question

Select an education program in a health care agency and assess it for its recognition of the impact of the internal and external factors on the program. Evaluate the program according to the classic components of curriculum development and evaluation. Include an analysis of the evaluation plan in place for individual sessions and the program as a whole. Is there any evidence that the data collected for evaluation are used to revise the program and improve quality? Analyze the budget of the program for its relationship to the mission and goals of the agency and the education program. Based on your analysis, how would you revise the program?

Answer 1

Educational program- Training of the people for Basic life support

Internal factors- Availability of trained staff in big number to train people.

CPR dummy for proper demonstrations.

External factors- lack of interest of people

Lack of time, lack of understanding why the program is essential.

Evaluation according to components of curriculum development

1) All people may not understand the importance of learning basic life support, they need to be motivated and explained its importance in saving ones life

2) Basic life support education should be provided with hands on experience for better outcome.

3) The content of this training mainly include giving chest compression and breathing, identified the patient with cardiac arrest.

4) A story theory explaination with demonstration and redemonstration teaching method will be used

5) Evaluation mainly done by observation of redemonstration.

Analysis of evaluation plan

Evaluation plan will help to know the effectiveness of program by counting the number of effective CPR Redemonstrations

Budget

Budget of the program will mainly depent upon availability of CPR dummies and trained personals.

Revised program

Based on the analysis the program can be revised by using the suggestion taken from the audience at the end of the education program.