Learning Needs Assessment
Conduct an educational needs assessment and analysis of your hospital.
Write a 1,500-word paper describing the results of your assessment.
Include the following information in your assessment:
• Type of institution
• Type of nursing care or service provided
• Volume of activity of the institution
• Levels of nursing care staff employed
• A summary of the results of the educational needs assessment and analysis, obtained by completing the following steps:
o Select a small sample from your representative group.
o Collect data through interviews, questionnaires, checklists, a review of the institution's documents, or direct observation.
o Analyze the data.
• Identification of the highest priority educational need
• Identification of institutional forces in favor of and those against responding to educational needs, such as budgetary and staff constraints, staff receptiveness and buy in, and support from management
• Identification, based upon the existing structure of the organization, of the next step within the institution to respond to the educational needs identified as highest priority
Include 1 paragraph introduction and 1 paragraph conclusion.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.