Sahana Rao
Consultant Paediatrician, Clinical lead for Qi and Patient safety at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
England - Oxford
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Sahana Rao posted a new activity comment 3 years, 2 months ago
Dear Emma,
Thanks.
That is brilliant.
I will look forward to the announcement. -
Sahana Rao posted a new activity comment 3 years, 2 months ago
Dear Sharon,
Thank you,
This is a great resource and very helpful. -
Sahana Rao posted a new activity comment 3 years, 2 months ago
Dear Jo,
Many thanks.
The Kirkpatrick model seems like a perfect one for the evaluation of our project. As suggested we will be looking at 4 key areas including expectations from stakeholders and participants; increase in knowledge and skills of the training participants, experience gained through the project; impact on their work and…Read more -
Sahana Rao posted a new activity comment 3 years, 3 months ago
Dear Alisa,
Thanks,
This sounds very helpful. I will email you ASAP.
Hope you have a lovely Chris& a Happy new year! -
Sahana Rao posted an update in the group Evaluation 3 years, 3 months ago
Hi,
We are hoping that you can support us and suggest some ideas for evaluating our educational programme. We run a QI programme with regular teaching sessions followed by workshops to support participants in undertaking QI projects. The programme runs for 4 months but the projects continue and outcomes are not available till many months later.…Read more -
Sahana Rao joined the group Liberating Structures in healthcare 3 years, 3 months ago
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Sahana Rao posted an update in the group Delivering Virtual Training (#ConnectingImprovers) 3 years, 6 months ago
Hi,
We are excited to introduce a new digital solution at primary-secondary care interface for the first time in UK. This will facilitate remote monitoring of patients by streamlining blood tests and investigations for secondary care.
We have entered this initiative into the Q Exchange as “Digital integration at primary-secondary care i…Read more
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Sahana Rao joined the group Delivering Virtual Training (#ConnectingImprovers) 3 years, 6 months ago
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Hi Sahana, this is something we have lots of experience of at Matter of Focus and I can share some tools that other organisations we work with have used to evaluate quality improvement training and practicums. Do drop me an email if you would like to discuss, ailsa@matter-of-focus.com.
Dear Alisa,
Thanks,
This sounds very helpful. I will email you ASAP.
Hope you have a lovely Chris& a Happy new year!
Hi Sahana – a lot of evaluations I’ve seen use the Kirkpatrick model for evaluating training programmes. You may have come across this already – it is helpful for breaking the different levels of outcomes (although it doesn’t provide tools). From the evaluations that I’ve read about of QI training programmes, it reinforces for me how important it…Read more
Dear Jo,
Many thanks.
The Kirkpatrick model seems like a perfect one for the evaluation of our project. As suggested we will be looking at 4 key areas including expectations from stakeholders and participants; increase in knowledge and skills of the training participants, experience gained through the project; impact on their work and…Read more
Hi Sahana, I agree with Jo that Kirkpatrick is commonly used for evaluation of educational interventions . I have not heard of the social network analysis- sound interesting. Here is a link to a an evaluaiton resource we developed which I hope will be helpful: https://ihub.scot/media/7486/guide-to-programme-evaluation-in-quality-improvement-v10.pdf
Dear Sharon,
Thank you,
This is a great resource and very helpful.
Hi Sahana,
Just to let you know we are also looking to run a session on evaluation of QI training in the new year, this is to present a toolkit that was developed as part of one of the Q Exchange projects – https://q.health.org.uk/idea/2018/transfering-learning-from-qi-training-for-better-impact-on-care/ – which used the Kirkpatricks model. We…Read more
Dear Emma,
Thanks.
That is brilliant.
I will look forward to the announcement.
That’s good news Emma! Will look out for the announcement as I’m very keen on the topic of evaluating QI programmes!