Case Study: Process Evaluation Plan for Hospital A Back Injury Project

This assignment presents a process evaluation plan for a service improvement project at Hospital A, focusing on patients with disabilities due to back injuries. The project aims to improve service outcomes within 12 months. The evaluation plan outlines indicators of achievement, methods of measurement, and data collection timelines. Success indicators include patient satisfaction, service quality, and adherence to policies and procedures. Data collection involves questionnaires, interviews, and observation. The plan also addresses direct and indirect benefits of the project, such as improved patient outcomes, social justice, and enhanced healthcare service delivery. The assignment details the importance of standardizing diagnostic and treatment guidelines, providing follow-up services, and training for managers. It also considers the benefits of the project including maximizing patient pleasure and minimizing pain, promoting social justice, and providing satisfactory services. The assignment also includes a list of direct and indirect benefits.

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A Process Evaluation Plan For The Next 6 Months Of The Project.
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A case service improvement project is designed to improve the service outcomes of all patients
with disability due to back injuries who are admitted and discharged from Hospital A within
12months
A Process Evaluation Plan For The Next 6 Months Of The Project
Objectives
Indicators of
achievements / Success
indicators
Methods for
Measurements
including details of
data collection
When should data
collection and
analysis take
place?
All patients* discharged
from hospital A are
referred to relevant
community-based
services according to the
Policy and Procedure
Manual;
Performance
indicators- for
measuring the success
of the implementations
in place such as
training and mentoring
programs offered to
the director, quality
manager, director and
team leaders with the
regards to
implementation the
“policy and procedure”
in the use of national
guidelines amongst
practitioners
Questionnaire
forms are
formulated whereby
they can be opened
ended and the
closed-ended one.
surveys should be
filled out to seek
recommendations
and services offered
t the patients with
back injuries
Interview using the
semi-structured
analysis
Data collected
from the patients
attending the
hospitals.
During revisits
and from those in
admitted

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The clinician and
the hospital
management faculty
should also air their
views regarding
changes to be done
in the institution
and their
recommendations
Initial indicators of the
quality of the service
provided
For instance, there
was no policy and
procedure in
implementing testing
diagnostic treatment
and support guideline
in the department
Observation method
involves visiting
hospital A and
oversee the
conditions and the
overall process of
treatment the
Reviewing
preexisting data by
compiling data
available from
previous record
concerning on the
follow up of
Data to be
collected during
regular working
hours
Data could also
be obtained from
the patients who
have come for
revisit purposes.

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patients by
community
practitioners.
Checking the
turnaround time of
the patient of the
patient since
diagnosis treatment
to the final
treatment of drug
administration
Intermediate indicators
of
Changesg made to
ensure improved
services are offered,
relating to the progress
of the clinicians and
practitioners as well as
the entire team.
Inputting a
documented service
Interviewing the
care givers
regarding their
concerns during
revisits
Attitude scales 1-10
given to the patients
in question to fill
their satisfaction
Observation by
checking the overall
Giving out
questionnaires to
the patients after
treatment to
indicate their
satisfaction level
art a given scale
During the
working hours
and by checking

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provision policy to be
used in treating
patients with back
pains
Result indicators those
that show customer
satisfaction. They are
meant to check
whether there is the
success in the
implemented
objectives
performance of the
staffs that have
been trained and
mentored during the
change process
Viewed all the
reports provided by
the team for
implementation
purpose
their records after
work.
Follow up on
Summary daily,
weekly and
monthly report
This will be
reviewed after the
six months.
Question B:
Please itemise all critical direct and indirect benefits that the project may produce within six
months after the completion of the project. Please make sure each item is worded clearly for
readers to understand. No justification or explanations are required.
Direct Benefits
1. To maximise pleasure and minimise pain.

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2. Preventing and minimising harms.
3. Promote social justice.
4. Self-awareness.
5. Social wellbeing and justice.
6. Promoting unification among patients attended.
7. Providing satisfactory services.
8. Providing conditions that are not just for health but good life.
Indirect Benefits
1. Obsessive focus on individual autonomy.
2. Negative impacts upon public health by the medical ethics.
3. Sensitive to social relationships.