Needs Assessment of Nurse Educators

Needs Assessment of Nurse Educatorsi

Purpose of The Report1

Introduction1

Needs Assessment2

The Process of Carrying Out the Need Assessment2

Phase 1: Exploration of the Needs3

Step 1: Preparation of a Management Plan3

Step 2: Identification of Chief Concerns4

Step 3: Determining the Indicators for Need4

Step 4: Consideration of Sources of Data5

Step 5: Decision based on Preliminary Precedence6

Phase 2: Congregation & Analysis Data6

Step 1: Determine Target Groups6

Step 2: Gather Data to Define Needs7

Step 3: Identify & Analyze Causes7

Step 5: Summarize Finding8

Phase 3: Taking Decisions9

Step 1: Propose Action Plan9

Literature Review and Discussion9

Recommendations11

Conclusion11

References13

Purpose of the Report

This report is explaining the needs assessment conducted pout on the needs of the nurse educators working in hospital.

Introduction

Individuals and organizations as learners can have different needs pertaining to education and training. A proper and adequate assessment of these needs is essential for developing an appropriate and efficient program which addresses these needs and fill the underlying gaps. Assessment of needs from the individual learner's perspective is an important part of any instructional program design, and it can benefit both teachers and students alike.

Needs assessment serves to be an effective practice in getting aware of the gaps in the current state and the desired state of the targeted group for any program or project. This helps both the learner and educator in making properly informed decisions regarding the program to make sure that the program or training is efficient. Needs assessment may be carried out using formal or informal procedures.

This report is written on the capstone project that was carried out in a hospital. The project helped to assess the needs of the nurse educators serving in the hospital. The purpose of this report is to lay down needs assessment of the educational needs of hospital based nurse educators and interventions that were taken and discussed in the capstone project.

Needs Assessment

Needs assessment is considered to be an important procedure in the educational and instructional field. It is referred to a process which involves systematic way of identifying and attending to the gaps in terms of needs that exist between the current or existing circumstances and intended or desired circumstances (Altschuld, 2010). In order to address the discrepancies and gaps between the existing situation and the desired situation, it is important that those discrepancies that are the needs are properly identified and measured through an adoption of systematic procedure (Tobey, 2005).

The systematic process of needs assessment is considered to be an important and crucial aspect of planning especially in educational and training circumstances (Tobey, 2005). In an educational setting, needs assessment process is carried out to investigate and assess the current resources of the learners or the target group. These resources can be the abilities, skills, knowledge, approaches, understanding or comprehension pertinent to the respective field (Altschuld, 2010). Carrying out a needs assessment makes sure that the educational program or training entails the needs that require to be met in order to fill the gap and enhance the efficiency and performance of the learners. It also facilitates in planning and designing the ...