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Gaining Success Program

Introduction/Goal

To provide Basic Skills Plus services to students who have not completed their high school credential or GED diploma and are seeking a career in the healthcare field. The evaluation of the program will seek to determine if Nurse Aide I pathway is successful for students and employees. NAs are not licensed, but many acquire certified nurse aide/nursing assistant (CNA) status after proving that they have certain skills related to the requirements of particular positions. They can do this through formal education programs at technical colleges and community colleges or through hospital-based training (Hockenberry, 2016).

Context

While there has been a decline in manufacturing in the county, the healthcare sector continues to have higher numbers employed. Home health aides are third on the list of fast growing occupation by Job Growth. Trinity Healthcare has thus intervened to help individual who never graduated never completed their high school and those without GED diploma. Trinity Health, being a new organization in the health care industry, has devoted itself in helping individuals who never completed high-school attain the necessary credentials for them to compete in the job market. Noteworthy, this program is done as part of the organization’s corporate social responsibility.

Trinity Healthcare, being a new organization has a workforce of 25 employees who comprise of 1 facility manager, 2 nurse supervisors, 12 nurses, 1 surgeon, 2 laboratory technicians, 1 dentist, 2 accountants and 4 internal medicine specialists. The facility is located in the Cherry Hills Village Colorado and the major clients are the members of the general public from the suburb area. The organization’s management style is collaborative and cooperative.

Participants in this program will be assisted to attain Nurse Aide I certification and HSE diploma. The program will be operated through the Basic Skills Program, with the director being the overseer and two part-time career coaches to provide student support services as well evaluation and follow-up. Collaborate with examiner and instructors to ensure that instruction is contextual and aligned with accepted standards while also providing support through mentoring and coaching.

A recruiter will recruit students who are only interested in gaining their high school equivalency diploma as well as their Nurse Aide certificate. All these efforts should be geared towards helping the Health Trinity implement a program that is well-tailored to effectively help students who never graduated in high school to gain all the necessary knowledge and skills needed to qualify as home health aides.

Curriculum

The program components will include an accelerated High School Equivalency Diploma cohort for 15-20 students, career exploration which will include a Career Readiness certificate, enrollment in healthcare academy, enrollment in Medication Aide Exam prep for Adult Care Homes, and occupational extensions Nurse Aide. Project students will attend day classes with the High School Equivalency Diploma and Human Resource Development instructions each day, Monday through Thursday. Students will commit to attending a minimum of 80% of class hours in order to successfully complete and move to the next stage. Although students will work at different pace to complete the High School Equivalency Diploma, the Gaining Success Program is designed to be completed in two semesters, beginning with the High School Equivalency Diploma and ending with the completion of the Nurse Aide I course.

Needs of Learners

Students will have no prior healthcare skills. Leaners are individual from all gender and ages. These are people without adequate computer skills owing to their education level. Additionally, these individuals, due the lack of much workplace or organizational practical experience have varied attitudes towards organization, leadership and tasks. Learners will be individuals who have not graduated from high school and have not received their GED diploma, students will complete Reading 70 or take the placement assessment, students must complete clinical hours at a NC certified Home Care facility, basic computer knowledge and must be at least 21 years of age. As such, leaners will need well illustrative and practical teaching for them to grasp all the concepts of the course ((Tas, 2013).

Motivational Methods

Motivation is the force that drives people to fulfill a need. Collaboration and motivation is a key factor in student success, and whatever level of motivation student brings to the learning environment will be transformed, for better through the learning process. Empowering a people to work towards their goals through motivation is an incentive to learn. Students who enter into the program will have the $50.00 fee for High School Equivalency testing waived as well as books, tuition and uniform fees paid for upon eligibility. Students will also earn credentials towards curriculum classes.

Confirmative Evaluation

The inadequacy of both summative and formative evaluations in the similar program carried earlier on triggered the need for a confirmative evaluation on this particular program. This evaluation is meant to check how this program will be successful for the community as well as employees. The evaluation will allow the staff to look and implement other pathways to be added to assist individuals who have no high school credentials and or unemployed.

Benefits

Successful leadership matters are a great deal to organizations seeking to create a competitive advantage by being prepared for rapid increases in global competition, the impact of advancing technology, and the constant and increasing pace of change (Johnstal, 2013). The benefits expected from the confirmative evaluation is to select ways and make decisions to improve the program for future endeavors, to link studies with additional Healthcare curriculum to alleviate cost and to help to develop a plan for continuous improvement of transitioning to employment and or further education.

Conclusion

The key point for this plan is to foster linkages between Gaining Success Program students, career pathways and employment and training. Make sure the goals are congruent with those of the course instructor and that they clearly define what students will do. Then communicate these goals to the students, define guidelines and rules from the beginning, explain and define the guidelines and rules, and ask for students input and opinions about them. Allocate time early in the term to familiarizing students with essential guidelines for successful and productive learning, encourage students to participate, discuss clearly what you expect students to participate and that they should feel free to make comments and ask questions. Also solicit student feedback, by asking how they are doing in their learning experience and if the instructor’s training is effective. It also checks if the students have mastered all concepts that have been covered already.

References

Hockenberry, J. M., & Becker, E. R. (2016). How Do Hospital Nurse Staffing Strategies Affect

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Johnstal, S. P. (2013). Successful Strategies for Transfer of Learned Leadership. Performance

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TAŞ, A. a., SELVİTOPU, A. a., BORA, V. v., & DEMİRKAYA, Y. a. (2013). Reasons for

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Gaining Success Program

Denise M. Young

Professor Andrew Hughes

EDU 529

July 31, 2016

Stakeholder Information Needed

Leaners- These are the most important stakeholders in this program since everything is geared towards helping them gain Basic Skills Plus in all in effort to prepare them towards getting a career in the healthcare field. As such, this evaluation plan needs to establish whether the program helped the participants gain relevant knowledge and basic skills for them to compete in the healthcare field.

Program implementation team- This is the team involved in the most important activities in making Gaining Success program achieve its objectives. This evaluation plan needs to find out whether the motivational methods used in the program improved the motivation of program implementation team in achieving the program’s goals (Saunders, Evans & Joshi, 2005).

American Nurses Association- This is the body that represents nurses, hospitals and other facilities in which majority of the learners will work after completion of the program. As such, the evaluation plan needs to establish whether the information, knowledge and skills learned during this program were adequate to meet the standards set by the American Nurses Association (ANA).

Program facilitators-This group is responsible for the classroom teaching, mentoring, supervision and overall overseeing of the progress of the program. This evaluation plan needs to establish the satisfaction level of program facilitators in regard to the whole program course.

Evaluation Outcome

a) The needs of leaners will be evaluated based on impact. The program should positively impact the competence of leaners by imparting all relevant skills and knowledge.

b) The needs of implementation team should be based on value. The motivation methods used should generate a positive value to the program by influencing the attitudes, commitment and dedication of the implementation team in making the program a success.

c) For ANA, its needs should be evaluated based on effectiveness. After the completion of all the semesters, skills, information and knowledge gained from this program should be adequate to help the individual meet the standards set by American Nurses Association.

d) Lastly, evaluation of the needs of program facilitators should be based on efficiency. The satisfaction level of the program facilitators should be met the desired level of at least 8 out of 10.

Confirmative Evaluation Question

a) Leaners- Did the learners obtain the necessary information, skills and knowledge?

b) Implementation team- Did the motivational methods improve the commitment, motivation and attitudes of the program’s implementation team?

c) ANA- Are the skills, information and knowledge adequate to meet the standards set my American Nurses Association?

d) Program facilitators- Does the satisfaction level of all participants in the program meet the desired level of at least 8 out 10)?

Key resources requirement during valuation plan implementation

Some of the most important resources required for the valuation include:

a) Staff-People are the most important resources in the implementation of this program. It is the staff that carries out activities such as data analysis, interpretation and decision making.

b) Equipment- These include office materials, computers, drawing boards, test equipment among others. These equipment’s increase the ease in which all activities of the program are carried out.

c) Time-each of the successive activities of both the evaluation plan and other phases of the whole program need time. Adequate time helps to meet deadline, economize resources and prioritize activities.

d) Budget- All activities involved in the evaluation plan and the entire program involve costs. Adequate budget helps to meet all requirements of the plan.

Reference

Saunders, R. P., Evans, M. H., & Joshi, P. (2005). Developing a process-evaluation plan for

assessing health promotion program implementation: a how-to guide. Health Promotion

Practice, 6(2), 134-147.