Evaluate Program Outcomes in Faith Communities
Faith community nurses plan and provide health-promotion and
disease-prevention activities within faith communities. The nurses
often must provide these services with limited resources of money,
time, and equipment. The following model for program
development and evaluation is useful in the creation of high-quality
and cost-effective programs:
Step 1: What problem or issue is the program designed to
address? Be specific about the problem as it guides the search
for evidence-based information.
Step 2: Identify program partnerships such as regional faith
community nurses, hospital, chronic disease management centers.
Step 3: Identify both short- and long-term goals. The goals help
prioritize what needs to be documented, tracked, and
reported.
Step 4: Document the specific program outcomes. This may
include numbers of a