Needs Assessment

Introduction

The educational needs for a practicing nurse are ever-changing proportionate to external factors such as the evolving technologies, geopolitical area of practice, economic issues, etc. Therefore, nurses must always keep up with the latest and trending issues to perform their duties efficiently. However, given the symbiotic relationship between healthcare systems and providers of essential services such as the technologies used, medicine. Therefore, there is a need for a professional management team tasked with coordinating the procurement processes; therefore, this essay introspects into the needs assessment for an experienced "contracts manager."

Discrepancy Analysis

Notably, the daily tasks of a nurse revolve around using external entities, technologies, drugs, and even knowledge. However, it becomes challenging when one wants to adopt new strategies conscious of the operating ones. This creates a dilemma and ethical breach of contracts with the providers, thus limiting one's true potential. Therefore, Strang's (2017) affirmation of the importance of partaking in a needs assessment as a critical endeavor that provides direction for the organization in terms of management and utilizing the resources at their disposal is factual.

Needs Assessment Logic

Desired Status

Streamlining the ethical and legal process gives practicing nurses the opportunity of performing their mandates of being a "knowledgeable and compassionate professional nurse that truly makes a difference in patients' lives through providing holistic nursing care" (Rischer, 2020). Thus, using a needs assessment, the nursing fraternity can introspect the dire needs of professional contract managers.

Actual Status

The current dilemma of practicing nurses not knowing the limiting factors to the use of their knowledge,...

Therefore, in alignment with the "CMBOK" framework for sustainable changes, a needs assessment is pertinent to correct the adverse effects (Change Management Institute, 2017).

Understanding the Gap

A nursing profession's need for "CMBOK" is pertinent to their study and practice as not only does it provides more retrospect into ethical and legal issues related to their daily routine. But it also dissuades them from legal entanglements resulting from breach of contracts. McDonald...

…focus, and how to customize training and support. Equally important, it is essential to introspect the potential nurse's competencies during the recruitments through a structured checklist form. Such forms reflect the general capabilities of a nurse even before they start to work.

Additionally, although the concept of self-reporting is unfathomable amongst many practitioners, assessing one's skillsets using structured questions allows a more accurate picture of professional nurses to see and carry themselves through a skills checklist. Also, Interviews can suffice. For instance, asking both professionals and nurses in practicum their expectations from their experience, professional needs, accomplishment plans, and how they want to grow their careers. It gives a deeper personal and macro-perspective view of their professional and individual needs, thus mentoring them in a positive direction. It is also essential to seek advice from former instructors and managers about their evaluations to have had experiences with the nurses. This can be done through questionnaires with emails or personally questioning skills they thought befitted the students. Finally, the nurses need to be observed in…