Conduct an educational technology needs assessment for your current workplace setting or another health care setting you are familiar with and interested in.
Workplace Setting and Educational Context: Clinical (Hospital) / Continuing professional education.
The needs assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point.
• Describe how nurses are currently using educational technology within the setting (Hospital) and educational context you have chosen for this assessment (continuing professional development).
o What information is lacking that would provide you with a more complete or accurate description of current usage?
o Is your description based on any particular assumptions?
• Compare the current state of educational technology use with the desired state (best practices in nursing education).
o Use a Gap analysis methodology
o Address the following:
o What, if any, changes are needed in how nurses currently use the existing technology?
o Is there a need for a new technology solution?
o On what do you base your conclusions?
• Assess the metrics used to determine the benefits of current educational technology use.
o Are the metrics sufficient for the intended purpose?
o What are the best practices that could help improve the quality, interpretation, and use of the data?
• Explain how new or existing educational technology aligns with the strategic mission of the organization.
o If needed, locate a public statement of the organization's mission.
• Recommend changes to existing educational technology, or current use of the technology, that will improve nursing education.
o How will your recommendations result in improvements in nursing education?
o What evidence do you have to support your conclusions and recommendations?
• Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.
o Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
o How or why does evidence support a claim?
o Will your reader see the connection?
o Did you summarize, paraphrase, and quote your sources appropriately?
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