Needs Assessment Assignment
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Needs Assessment Assignment
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Running head: FINAL NEEDS ASSESSMENTFINAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees][Institutional Affiliation(s)]
2FINAL NEEDS ASSESSMENTFinal Needs AssessmentQ1: Reflection of the method of data collectionA gap has been identified in the healthcare system to be the ever-increasing cost of healthcare expenses with time. This has formed the basis of a practicum question that needs to be addressed.Part of the reason that leads to such a gap is the continued used on unnecessary medical tests on patients. It has been established that significant resources are possibly running down into the channels of wastes of resources as a result of medical tests performed on patients but were not needed[ CITATION Don141 \l 1033 ]. This leads to increased operating costs and thus an overall burdening of the cost of running healthcare facilities. The needs assessment thus purposes to establish mechanisms and strategies that could be deployed so as to reduce such forms of wastages that are incurred by healthcare facilities. Reduction or complete elimination of such forms of wastage would have a significant impact on reducing the operation costs of healthcare facilities.The choice of the method of collecting data was based on the nature of the data that was supposed to be collected. This was directly related to the objectives and the aim of the practicum.The data required in this case is in line with what the stakeholders in the healthcare system feel can be deployed or adopted in order to reduce the possible wastes resulting from unnecessary medical tests[ CITATION Chr16 \l 1033 ]. Among the stakeholders whose opinions need to be soughton this issue so as to establish a comprehensive research, outcome include patients, healthcare providers (nurses, doctors, pharmacists, etc.) as well as the administrative wing of a healthcare facility. For this reason, the most appropriate data collection methods would be questionnaires and interviews.
3FINAL NEEDS ASSESSMENTSuch methods allow for the collection of the views, thoughts and ideas of the various stakeholders. Questionnaires would be bearing written questions, both closed and open-ended, onthe research topic[ CITATION Jea11 \l 1033 ]. A stakeholder would submit his responses to each of the questions upon request to do so. These responses are used as the suggested strategies in the views of such stakeholders in curbing the ever-increasing cost of operating healthcare facilities through reduction of unnecessary medical tests. Interviews would involve engaging the stakeholders either through focus groups orindividual interviews. Still, in this method of data collection, it will be possible to collect the required data based on the research question. The needs assessment of this task calls for qualitative research approach and since the methods chosen are for qualitative research approach interviews and questionnaires are the best tools or data collection methods that are usable in gathering the required information[ CITATION Mar154 \l 1033 ].Q3: Measuring the validity and reliability of quantitative dataReliability defines the extent of generation of consistent and stable results by an assessment tool[ CITATION Nan10 \l 1033 ]. Among the test for measuring reliability, include test-retest, inter-rater, parallel forms and internal consistency tests. Internal consistency evaluates the extent to which different items of test over the same research question yield similar results. Parallel forms test is where dissimilar versions of the same assessment tool are used on the same group of individuals. The results obtained from the different versions are then compared for the establishment of an existence of a correlation between the results obtained across the alternative versions. Test-retest test is a method of obtaining reliability by administering the same questions or tests to the same group of participants twice over a period[ CITATION Chr16 \l 1033 ]. The
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