Needs Analysis for Change

Background and Context

As a master’s level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organizations outcomes. In this weeks assignment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in your Week 3 assignment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.

Instructions

Be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence. Review the assignment instructions and rubric to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.

Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:

• Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
• Reiterate your rationale for pursuing this issue, as well as the gap contributing to it that you identified in your Week 3 assignment.
• Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
• Use at least one piece of evidence to support this disparity (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resources).
• Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
• For example, if your implementation plan includes the need for increased staffing, you might want to research errors or patient falls that occurred as a result of high patient and low staff ratio in the literature.
• Use at least four evidence-based or scholarly sources that are relevant to your chosen topic to support your explanation.
• Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
• Outcomes and opportunities for growth should focus on economic considerations.
• Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Be sure to reflect on the readings and discussions you have completed so far and consider how the content of these activities might inform your approach to this assignment. Ask your instructor any questions you have about the assignment.

Additional Requirements

• Length of Submission: 35 double-spaced pages.
• Number of References: Cite at least 4 sources of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
• APA formatting: Titles, headings, resources, and citations are formatted according to the current APA style.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Centers

page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
• Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
• Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
• Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
• Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
• Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
• Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
• Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
• Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
• Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Week 5 Assignment: Needs Analysis for Change

Week 5 Assignment: Needs Analysis for ChangeCriteriaRatingsPtsSummarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

30 to >25.5 pts

DISTINGUISHED

Summarizes the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community. Notes the rationale for pursing the issue, as well as a gap contributing to it.

25.5 to >21 pts

PROFICIENT

Summarizes the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

21 to >0 pts

BASIC

Provides an unclear or incomplete summary of the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

0 pts

NON_PERFORMANCE

Does not provide any type of summary of the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

/ 30 pts

Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.

40 to >34 pts

DISTINGUISHED

Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations. Supports assertion by using at least one piece of evidence (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resource).

34 to >28 pts

PROFICIENT

Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.

28 to >0 pts

BASIC

Identifies disparities that exist with regards to the chosen economic issue. However, does not relate the disparities to any socioeconomic or diversity considerations.

0 pts

NON_PERFORMANCE

Does not identify any disparities that exist with regards to the chosen economic issue.

/ 40 pts

Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.

40 to >34 pts

DISTINGUISHED

Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans. Cites at least four relevant evidence-based or scholarly sources to support explanation.

34 to >28 pts

PROFICIENT

Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.

28 to >0 pts

BASIC

Identifies the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources, but the relevance to regarding the need to address the chosen issue is unclear or misaligned.

0 pts

NON_PERFORMANCE

Does not identify the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources.

/ 40 pts

Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.

40 to >34 pts

DISTINGUISHED

Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan. Notes the specific economic benefits for patients and the organization.

34 to >28 pts

PROFICIENT

Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.

28 to >0 pts

BASIC

Identifies possible outcomes and opportunities of growth, but their relationship to the proposed change or implementation plan is unclear.

0 pts

NON_PERFORMANCE

Does not identify possible outcomes and opportunities of growth.

/ 40 pts

Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

50 to >42.5 pts

DISTINGUISHED

Conveys clear purpose in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting.

42.5 to >35 pts

PROFICIENT

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards. Applies APA style and formatting.

35 to >0 pts

BASIC

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence and/or minimal adherence to applicable writing standards.

0 pts

NON_PERFORMANCE

Does not convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.

/ 50 pts

Total Points: 0