Evaluation of the Development Project of Community Nurse Network in Driving the District Health Management of Health Region 7
Keywords:
project evaluation, community nurses, district health management, health regionAbstract
Abstract
This research aims at evaluating the development project of the community nurse network in driving the district health management of Region 7. This Research and Development study was done to evaluate the project according to the CIPP Model. The evaluation was carried out under 4 aspects, including Context Evaluation, Input Evaluation, Process Evaluation, and Product Evaluation.
The findings revealed that 1) Context Evaluation: the project enabled the connection between community nurses and different networks in a concrete way. There were three sectors involved, namely the academic sector, the political sector, and the citizen sector. This resulted in the community’s self-problem-solving following the context. The public policy was driven by empowering the workforce and together finding proper solutions. 2) Input Evaluation: personnel could execute the project with network partners and multidisciplinary associates. The mechanism of work collaboration resulted in various operating plans, which focused on designing activities that boosted personnel competencies including academic and professional competencies, knowledge sharing, empowerment and team building. 3) Process Evaluation: project operations were driven in a district level to design area-based developmental process, where health issues were raised and led to One District One Project. 4) Product Evaluation: Knowledge development was executed by using qualitative research methods. Community analysis, routine to research workshop. There were 10 projects operated in different areas, 43 research studies, and 13 innovations.
Results from the evaluation suggested that all relevant parties (government, local government, and local people) agreed that the development project of the community nurse network in driving the district health management of Region 7 could solve the community’s problems based on the disease condition and actual health threats. In addition, the project also helped motivate the participation of relevant sectors in the operations in a concrete way.
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