An outpatient diabetic clinic nurse is asked to develop an educational program.
Which key factor would the nurse first need to know to begin planning the program?

Structure measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to provide high-quality care.

For example, the ratio of providers to patients.

Choice A: Process measures indicate what a provider does to maintain or improve health, either for healthy people or for those diagnosed with a health care condition.

Choice B: Dependent measures is not a type of measure used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations.

Choice C: Outcome measures reflect the impact of the health care service or intervention on the health status of patients.

Before determining the learning needs of your clients, it is important to collect and review data from an assessment.

This can help you identify the learner, choose the right setting, collect data about the learner, involve members of the healthcare team, prioritize needs, and determine the availability of educational resources.

Choice A is not the correct answer because evaluating learning outcomes is done after determining learning needs.

Choice B is not the correct answer because selecting teaching strategies is done after determining learning needs.

Choice C is not the correct answer because writing learning objectives using Bloom’s taxonomy is done after determining learning needs.