Mrs. Jones, a widow, is no longer able to live independently and is requiring more and more help with her self-care. Her daughter, Susie, who is married with three school-aged children, agrees to let her mother move in with her. Susie is concerned with balancing the demands of her career and the needs of her family, especially now that her elderly and chronically ill mother will need assistance. She is also unsure about how she feels with the reversal of roles, having to now be the primary caregiver of her mother.

 

 

How can the nurse, caring for this family, assist with the changes they are about to undergo?

 

 

How can both the family structural theory and the family developmental theory be applied to this scenario?

 

 

How can health education enhance health promotion for this family?

For the next newsletter, you have been asked to write a 700- to 1,050-word article about the spectrum of health care facilities. In your article:

• Analyze the spectrum of health care facilities that exist in the U.S.
• Analyze the purpose and goals of each of the different types of health care facilities in the U.S.
• Analyze how the different types of facilities work together.
• Analyze who is responsible for the oversight of the facilities.
• Analyze the similarities and differences of the health care facilities.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

Common Models in Health Informatics Evaluation

Have you ever watched a movie in which the same scene was shown several times but as viewed by different individuals? Or, have you watched a detective show in which the witnesses all had differing accounts? The same can hold true for conducting an evaluation of a health information technology project. How you plan and conduct the evaluation is largely dependent on the viewpoint you assume and the perspective with which you approach the evaluation.

Consider a new patient discharge protocol at a small hospital. Do you want to know how the patient feels about the process? Do you want to gather the opinions of nurses who are using this process? Perhaps you want to determine if it is saving the hospital money by freeing up bed space in a more timely fashion. Obtaining each of these viewpoints would require a different approach. Depending on the goal of your evaluation, the model and viewpoint you opt to use will likely vary.

In this Discussion, determine which evaluation model would be most effective for evaluating the health information technology described in one of the scenarios below. Your Instructor will assign a specific scenario by Day 1 of this week.

• Scenario 1: You have recently provided a training program to help nurses and physicians become proficient in the use of a new bedside medication verification (BMV) system.

• Scenario 2: The Chief Medical Officer at your hospital is interested in finding out the impact of a new decision support system on the number of adverse events occurring in the past year.

• Scenario 3: You are helping with the design of a new outpatient surgery center to be built adjacent to the hospital. You are tasked with evaluating the opinions of physicians, nurses, and the general public toward this facility.

To prepare:

• Review the information on the types of evaluation models covered in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Determine which model would be most appropriate to use for evaluation in the scenario to which you were assigned.
• Consider why the viewpoint of the scenario or situation would impact the model used.
• View the scenario from a different viewpoint, and consider how a different model might be used.
• Reflect on the importance of basing an evaluation on a model.

By tomorrow 12/13/2016 at 9pm, post a minimum of 550 words in APA format with a minimum of 3 references from the list below, which include the level one headings as numbered below:

1)      Post which scenario (1, 2, or 3) you were assigned and two different models that could be utilized to approach the evaluation.

2)      Explain why you selected those models and how you would use them.

3)       Explain why it is important to consider the intended goal of the evaluation and the viewpoint that is selected.

4)      Finally, assess the importance of basing an evaluation on a model. Justify your response.