The general purpose of developing an evaluation plan is to measure the overall outcome of the proposed solution. In addition, that the evaluation plan is a fundamental piece that provides to understanding the theory and practice to evaluate before and after implementation results of the change. Further, more the evaluation provides information on whether ultimate goals are being fully met or modify current activities where necessary for program improvement. A commonly used definition of evaluation is “the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of program, services, policy, or processes, in order to make judgments about the program process, improve effectiveness, …show more content…
“The model has three fundamental questions, (1) What are we trying to accomplish? (2) How do we know a change as an improvement? (3) What changes can be made that will result in an improvement?” (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2015). Therefore, the nurse and diabetes educator will be given certain Questionnaires, flyers or a power point presentation to diabetes patients, in order to understanding their higher risk and long-term complications and the advantages one to one self-management educations. The National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education defines; the key indicator of effectiveness of a diabetes self-management education is behavior changes as the priority outcome (Haas et al., 2012). Once these questionnaires are assessed with specific guidelines, so that everyone understands and patient agreeing that, these tools help in identifying the needs of the project, help evaluate …show more content…
The diabetes educator can access and reviewing the patient online medical records, also the educator when determining the evaluation process whether these patients are reach a time point beyond diabetes self management education before and after of the program. “Diabetes self management education do not have as significant a reduction in A1C as patients with diabetes for < 1 year, and their A1C remained higher for 2 years. These patients may benefit from additional education” ( Nicoll, et.al