Monitoring a health and social care team’s performance is essential so that any threats to its service delivery, are identified early and corrective actions taken. There are two dimensions of team functioning: the tasks the team are required to do, and the social climate that impacts on how they operate. The social climate will determine how team members cope with diversity of opinions, accept difference and resolve conflict.
Monitoring and evaluation are integral parts of management and provide a link between planning and implementation. While monitoring focuses on the activities and outputs, evaluation focuses on the outcome and goals. Monitoring focuses on inputs and outputs and is the continuous process of gathering information to measure against the goals and objectives. Evaluation, like monitoring, is a continuous process. Evaluation provides feedback on whether plans have been met and the reasons for success or failure. Evaluation should highlight shortcomings so they can be identified and corrected. It should provide direction for future plans. It is important to monitor and assess the on-going performance of teams and individuals, in order to evaluate the progress towards agreed objectives. Monitoring mostly involves keeping track of what is going on. By undertaking this regularly, we have the opportunity to make changes and adjustments, to ensure that any areas of concern are addressed.
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Evaluation and review should be an ongoing process of learning, embedding a process of continual improvement and development. The key to evaluating is knowing what we are measuring. We cannot monitor and evaluate the team’s progress towards agreed objectives without clear advance planning of what we want to do and how it will be achieve. Effective strategic and operational planning, incorporating clear measurable objectives, is therefore an important
What does ‘care’ mean? Care is the provision of what is necessary for your health, welfare and protection of someone or something. However when you talk about ‘care’ in a care practice the term changes and becomes more about enabling people to meet all their needs which would refer to their social, physical, emotional, cognitive and cultural needs. The individual is central to the meaning of care in this context.
2.3 Explain how the health and social care practitioner own values, beliefs and experiences can influence delivery of care.
This piece of work will be based on the pre-assessment process that patients go through on arrival to an endoscopy unit in which I was placed in during my second year studying Adult diploma Nursing. I will explore one patient’s holistic needs, identifying the priorities of care that the patient requires; I will then highlight a particular priority and give a rational behind this. During an admission I completed under the supervision of my mentor I was pre-assessing a 37 year old lady who had arrived to the unit for an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. During the pre-assessment it was important that a holistic assessment is performed as every patient is an individual with unique care needs as the patient outline in this piece of work has learning disabilities it was imperative to identify any barriers with communication (Nursing standards 2006).
Assessment is defined in the Merriam – Webster Dictionary as “the act of making a judgement about something” and thus connotes a worthwhile activity based on sound, careful thought. In Education, assessment has been variously defined as “any systematic method for obtaining information from tests and other sources, used to draw inferences about characteristics of people, objects or programs” (AERA, APA, & NCME, 1999, p.172); “any purported and formal action to obtain information about the competence and performance of a candidate’ (Schuwirth & van der Vleuten, 2014. p.243). Generally, assessment has three purposes. First, to determine what students do and do not know,
Monitoring is the ongoing process of measuring and analyzing to ensure that quality controls are maintained. It is generally less formal than auditing and performed by the organizations staff. Auditing in contrast, is a more structured and formal approach to analyzing quality control operations. Someone who is independent of the organization performs audits. At the conclusion of an audit formal recommendations are also provided for areas of improvement.
Social workers deal with a wide scope of marginalised groups with elderly as a commonly-discussed group. Elderly receive an adequate amount of care and concern in Asian countries such as Singapore largely due to the belief of filial piety. As a result, issues such as accessibility to elderly-friendly facilities and affordability of healthcare are frequently brought up and policies are reviewed and edited multiple times in order to best suit their needs. Despite the attention that is shown to the elderly, we often overlook the needs of their caregivers- who are in fact elderly themselves. These caregivers who are ageing along with their care recipients include children taking care of their parents, spouse taking care of another spouse and parents taking care of their bed-ridden children. The stressful situations that the elderly care provider faced due to their old age are rarely highlighted even though they may be complex and beyond their ability to handle. Hence, this essay aims to analyse the reason as to why social workers
Evaluation: - We look to see if the sales results that the evaluation is a process Advertising and strategies are working or not. It is working so well, then we need to figure out what we can make it better be. It will not work, but if we find out where our strategy is to Went wrong and why it did not work in increasing sales.
Teamwork is a vital aspect of the public and community services. These services consist of groups of people working together to achieve a mutual goal/aim. Teamwork is a key element for having a successful and efficient team. The way a team works together influences how successful they are and how efficient and effective they can be in achieving their common goals/aims. This essay will evaluate various teamwork theories, that explain the stages of forming a group and how it develops into a well established team. Examples of these theories include: Tuckman's theory of team development, Belbin's team roles, conflict theory, pluralism, trait theory and social learning theory. This essay will consider Tuckman's theory of team development, trait theory and social learning theory.
Continuous monitoring when it comes to processes, by evaluating and monitoring along the way, the early identification of issues gives way for a real time evaluation and solution. As a result, you are waiting until the issue has passed and creating a near miss. Using the simple structure of identification, inventory, intervention, and institutionalization establishing a baseline that will be followed every time. Clear definition of the problem at hand, no matter the complexity, by uncovering the root cause reduces rework down the road. The use of the inquiry perspective will develop my team and resources, creating the best picture of what we are faced with and how to resolve it. Developing and evaluating all possible alternatives is key. Not having a solid evaluation process in place guarantees that we will inevitably fail. Finally, the completion of implementation when it comes to a solution. By failing to fully implement, it is guaranteed the problem will resurface and the process and create rework. By fully implementing the team can make it a programed decision for the
The review mechanism enables leaders to measure the performance of their managers, especially in the key result areas: marketing; innovation; human organization; financial resources; physical resources; productivity; social responsibility; and profit requirements.
For the Health Assessment and Health Promotion portion of NURS 255, we were paired with 66 year old G.T., a resident of the senior living community Freedom Village. Over the course of two visits, we were able conduct a health history and physical assessment on our client, who was in outstanding health in comparison to her other individuals her age. She even reported, “this may not be too interesting to you -- I don’t have much wrong with me.” Our health assessment was incredibly average, with normal responses across the board and an occasional childhood story thrown in. The only health concerns that she had were related to weight-loss, risk for breast cancer, symptoms of a 10-year-old hip injury, and common fears about end-of-life and her social
There are several reasons organizations initiate performance evaluations, however the standard purpose for performance evaluations is to discuss performance expectations; not only from the employers perspective but to engage in a formal collaboration where the employee and the manager are both able to provide feedback in a formal discourse. There are many different processes an organization should follow when developing its performance evaluation tool; in addition essential characteristics that must accompany an effective performance appraisal process. I will discuss in detail the intent of a performance evaluation, the process an organization should follow in using its performance evaluation tool, along with the characteristics of an effective
The goal is to accurately measure the performance results and or the performance efforts. The measurement must be accurate enough to spot significant differences between what is really taking place and what was originally planned.
Health care has always been an interesting topic all over the world. Voltaire once said, “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” It may seem like health care that nothing gets accomplished in different health care systems, but ultimately many trying to cures diseases and improve health care systems.
The idea behind measure is improvement. Organisations measure the growth by its overall performance in terms of customer satisfaction, its ability to adapt the turbulent situations, product or service quality, profit ratio etc. Track of performance helps business to take corrective steps well in time when business is facing downtime. It opens the door for continuous improvement. For example athletics, agriculture needs continuous improvement, which can be achieved only when measures are tracked. It is generally accepted that measurement of performance is the first step toward quality improvement. And quality measurement leads to quality improvement. Th...