Question

A state-funded teen clinic located in an urban setting has routinely used appointment-only visits to schedule adolescents for well-health and acute visits, including contraception counseling and treatment and screening for sexually transmitted infections. The clinic, led by an APRN, serves as a teaching site for graduate nursing and medical students and receives reimbursement for precepting students from the local professional schools. Recently, the medical school threatened to withdraw its learners from the clinic because of low patient volume, which has limited the learning experiences of the students. This threat prompted the clinic administrators to evaluate clinic usage. The analysis found that more than half of the appointments scheduled resulted in “no shows.” The administrators have decided to change the clinic to a walk-in only scheduling format and have suggested using social media to promote availability.

1. As the APRN working in the teen clinic, do you agree with this decision? Why or why not?
2. Describe the next steps for evaluating this proposal.
3. Which evaluation data would be important for this clinic to collect?
4. Suggest how the planned scheduling changes might be evaluated and the results disseminated.
5. Discuss ethical considerations anticipated when changing the clinics’ scheduling format and the use of social media to promote enrollment.
6. Who would be most appropriate to evaluate the clinic policy, and who would pay for the evaluation?

Answer 1

• Social media and its platform are the most visited sites by the teenagers. To bring an awareness and also to market tjisnis one of the best way.This can be agreed as the next generation are more technological based or techie.
• A simple and first way to evaluate this is the response received on the social media for this proposal
• The evaluation data of how many walk in cases attends daily is important to be collected to know the outcome
• It can be evaluated by the feedback received from the teen's and adults who visited the clinic
• The ethical consideration of the teens able to fix their medical appointments without the knowledge of parents and being on treatment for STD
• The state and the federal government can intervene to evaluate the clinic policy
• As this evaluation is plan bed by the administration, they have to bear the cost of expenses.