the term health in all policies to refer to the actions to incorporate health into policies. (Wikipedia)
3. CONCEPT – 3. MONITORING AND EVALUATION:
Monitoring and evaluation is a systematic collection, analysis and reporting of information about public health activities. It determines programs efficiency and establishes standard of performance at the activity level. Proper monitoring and evaluation helps to identify the strong and weak points of programme operations and discrepancies. Basis for program accountability is formed and program effectiveness is determined.
3.1 Personal Context:
Personally, I feel that the importance of monitoring and evaluation cannot be over emphasized. Every public health intervention or health education intervention …show more content…
Since it’s a basis for accountability, the government in partnering in the program will know that nurses at every level are reliable and trusted. Members of the community will gain from the program optimally because of its efficiency.
3.3 Application in Current Job:
In my unit we believe in improvement in the services we render to our clients and this is why we always evaluate our services so that corrections can be made whenever substandard services are rendered. Thank God for nursing process this has evaluations as one of its steps to help nurses to evaluate the quality of nursing care rendered. It helps to know whether goals are met or not or whether new strategies need to be adopted. Evaluation of school’s curriculum is done periodically to know whether they meet the required standard. If not then the curriculum is re-evaluated, to meet the expected outcome.
3.4 Current Research:
The group involved in the evaluation process should be briefed about the activities to be evaluated and the method for the evaluation should be pre-determined so that on get better direct response (Bastable 2003).
4. CONCEPT – 4. ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE AS A NURSE …show more content…
In my own organization, we use facts discovered through research findings for illustrations during health talks to newly admitted students. Most of our nurses are highly educated and conversant with recent findings. We organize clinical meetings to discuss new findings that are relevant to patients care both positively and negatively for quality care
4.4 Current Research:
To achieve magnet status, the chief nurse executive needs to create, foster and sustain a practice environment where nursing research and evidence based practice is integrated into both the delivery of nursing care and the frame work for nursing administration and decision making (Turkel and her Colleagus 2005).
5. CONCEPT – 5. CONTROL OF MALARIA:
This concept is selected from module 6 subtopic 2 entitled ‘health programs across the