Program Planning & Evaluation Resources/Tools
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This user-friendly guide includes checklists and templates and links to other evaluation resources.
The Guide will help you to:
- Complete a useful and credible evaluation;
- Develop a sound description of the program, including a program logic model;
- Develop a feasible evaluation methodology;
- Disseminate evaluation findings;
- Develop recommendations;
- Follow evaluation standards upheld by the Canadian Evaluation Society.
Retrieved from - http://research.fraserhealth.ca/evaluation/services-for-program-evaluation/guide-to-planning-and-conducting-program-evaluation/
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OANHSS is the provincial association representing not-for-profit providers of long term care, services and housing for seniors. Members include municipal, charitable and non-profit long term care homes, seniors’ housing projects and community service agencies. Member organizations serve over 36,000 long term care residents annually and operate over 8,000 seniors’ housing units across the province.
Source: http://www.oanhss.org/
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Established in 2002, this network, made up of thousands of nurses and other health-care professionals who are passionate about evidence-based practice and improving care in their organization, continues to grow and thrive. Network members, appropriately named “Best Practice Champions” participate in a one-day orientation workshop, designed to provide them with numerous tools and strategies to champion the implementation of nursing best practice guidelines in their organization.
Retrieved from - http://rnao.ca/bpg/get-involved/champions
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This project plan is intended to be used as an example in organizations wishing to develop an implementation strategy of their own. The project plan demonstrates how and when implementation of the RNAO BPG will occur, by showing the major milestones of the project, and the activities and resources required to meet these goals.
Retrieved from - http://rnao.ca/bpg/guidelines/resources/best-practice-guideline-implementation-project-plan
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The Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) is a strong and vibrant multidisciplinary association and is committed to building evaluation capacity at an individual and organizational level. Retrieved from - http://www.evaluationontario.ca/
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CIHI is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential information on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians. The site provides broad range of health databases, measurements and standards, together with our evidence-based reports and analyses, in their day-to-day decision-making.
Retrieved from: https://www.cihi.ca/en
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The findings and tools in these reports provide you with an opportunity to understand and evaluate the issues, and begin testing changes that can help your organization make breakthrough improvements.
Retrieved from - http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/IHIWhitePapers/TheBreakthroughSeriesIHIsCollaborativeModelforAchievingBreakthroughImprovement.aspx
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Health Quality Ontario (HQO) is the province’s advisor on health care quality. HQO playa a unique role reporting on the system’s performance, sharing the best evidence to guide change and supporting quality improvement. Retrieved from - http://www.hqontario.ca/
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IHI uses the Model for Improvement as the framework to guide improvement work. The Model for Improvement,* developed by Associates in Process Improvement, is a simple, yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement. This model is not meant to replace change models that organizations may already be using, but rather to accelerate improvement.
Learn about the fundamentals of the Model for Improvement and testing changes on a small scale using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles.
Retrieved from - http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/HowtoImprove/default.aspx
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This guide identifies well-tested approaches for pursuing those goals:
- Sustainability: Locking in the progress that hospitals have made already and continually building upon it; and
- Spread: Actively disseminating best practice and knowledge about every intervention and implementing each intervention in every available care setting.
Retrieved from: http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/HowtoGuideSustainabilitySpread.aspx