An effective assessment plan is fundamental to any health (profession) or organisation as it gives the answer whether a project fulfils what it was intended to attain. As such, this evaluation plan significantly considers methods used to evaluate effectiveness and variables to be assessed (Family Health International 2004).
Methods
- The method shall be based on the literature review of the falling cases as well as preventions undertaken so as to fall within the subject, scope and propositions.
- This will involve an extensive analysis of data collected from Fall Prevention Program (the western United States) and interview of interviewees.
- Subsequently, carry out a survey on the patients who have experienced falls, or undertaken fall prevention recommendations as well as the caregivers who advance offer care and fall prevention services.
- The research shall involve the factors that contribute singly or in combination to older adult falls and examine the history of falling, fear of falling as well as self-efficacy to avoid it (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt 2010).
Questions or Variables
This will focus of the relevancy and effectiveness to achieve the desired outcome, the extent of project input, activities and timeliness. The rationale shall be of immense importance in which analysis of the appropriateness of the outcomes and evaluation of speculation of better or worse results.
The questions can be divided in three categories:
- The patients who have experienced falls
- The vulnerable victims who undertake fall preventions
- The caregivers who offer treatment to victims who have suffered fall at old age and also who offer to vulnerable victim’s self-efficacy to prevent falls.
Tools necessary to educate project participants:
- The level of collaboration from caregivers, nurses and other healthcare providers is fundamental in fall prevention and related risks.
- A critical review of the Geriatric Emergency Management Falls Intervention Team as to check the levels and the impact of collaboration to interdisciplinary fall prevention to older adults
- The focus shall be inclined on the ranging improvement in collaboration consequences and decline in preventable risk determinants.
Again, the evaluation plan shall concentrate on the reliability, correctness and acquiescence of a transitory fall risk screening tool in sub-acute and residential aged care. Reliability shall examine the caregivers. Consequently, results that will indicate elements of majority extrapolative items with experienced recent falls, psychological status values, and medications offered as well as cognition levels shall be undertaken in this endeavour. The final 4-item tool (PH-FRAT) shall provide the level of accuracy, sensitivity (ER), specificity of ER as well as the level of reliability (ICC).
Assessment tools
The evaluation plan design takes the descriptive and exploratory where both qualitative and quantitative data was collected and analysed by use of SPSS.
In essence, occupational therapy programme used as well as the subsequent provision shall cover the functionality, reliability and effectiveness surrounding evaluation to identify risk features for novel falls.
Notwithstanding, general levels of adherence and participation to intervention will advance to facilitate a multiplicity of benefits to the old people like improved physical strength and balance, health advice and encouragement as well as assessment. The ranging results shall be taken into consideration. This is taking the assumption that evaluations of fall prevention activities are fundamental in reducing negative effects and outcomes (South Australian Community Health Research Unit).
References
Family Health International (2004). Developing a monitoring and evaluation work plan. Web.
Melnyk, B.M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2010). Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare: A guide to best practice (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
South Australian Community Health Research Unit (n.d.). Using evidence to improve outcomes for communities, Evaluating Your Project. Web.