My program entails to the improvement nutritional status rural areas within the American society. The target group comprises individuals that live in the rural parts of Bronx, New York. The key focus is the identification of nutritional conditions that need immediate attention as well as the strategies to facilitate the change. To access the underlying needs, it will require me to conduct an elaborate needs assessment (Hunt, Sproat, and Kitzmiller, 2013).
I can use several approaches and they include surveys, interviews, focus groups, as well as, working groups. However, for the purpose of my program, a survey seems to be the most appropriate strategy. According to Connecticut Hospital Association (2013), surveys, especially the written ones, are useful tools to gain information for the needs assessment where the main aim requires a cost-effective way of collecting data from a large number of individuals. As a student, I am limited when it comes to financial resources. As a result, I do not have a large pool of money to facilitate the completion of the program under focus. At the same time, I need to collect data from the greatest number of people possible. Therefore, a survey will provide optimized outcomes in the face of my limitation (Connecticut Hospital Association, 2013).
After collecting the data, I will analyse it through content analysis. The essence of using this method is to make inferences and gain relevant insight regarding the nutritional conditions that my target group would like to address. Content analysis usually allows a person to conduct a more objective evaluation or assessment when compared to all other methods of data analysis. Therefore, it is the best fit for analysing the data collected to establish the nutritional needs of the target population (Connecticut Hospital Association, 2013).
References
Connecticut Hospital Association (2013). Guidelines for conducting a community health needs assessment. Retrieved from <https://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/informatics/Documents/CT-cha-chna%20guidelines.pdf>
Hunt, E., Sproat, S., and Kitzmiller, K. (2013). The nursing informatics implementation guide. New York: Springer Press.
