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Date of Report:
01/2006
Source:
Mountain Plains AETC
The Mountain Plains AETC (MPAETC) is working to find new ways to capture Level III training outcomes, provider behavior change, and how participants learn and apply information from the training. Mountain Plains is currently conducting a study using an innovative method of serial interviews, journaling, and creative visual depictions of how participants learn and apply information from Level III educational experiences. Participants are interviewed immediately after Level III training and then asked to journal for 7?10 days any time they think about, talk about, or apply knowledge or skills gained through the Level III training. The study is ongoing. Initial findings are informative and have provided critical information on the course as well as longer term outcomes.
In the meantime, routine evaluation continues. In addition to pre- and post-test knowledge, skills, and willingness analysis, MPAETC also conducts a three-month follow up with regional Level III participants. At times, a Level III participant will initiate follow-up. The following vignette, provided by MPAETC nurse practitioner Suzanne Jed, MSN, APRN-BC, FNP, demonstrates a recent example.
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Several days after attending a clinical training in Denver, a participant (D) called with questions regarding her training paperwork. During the course of the conversation, D mentioned how excited she was to have recently learned about HIV labs and be able to discuss an HIV-infected patient's CD4 count with him on her shift.
She then mentioned that the patient was previously routinely seen for HIV care in Denver, but had moved to her area. He was now homeless with no money, and no transportation back to Denver for care. We discussed how the patient could best contact the Denver clinic in order to access his prescriptions until he transferred his care to a clinic in his new hometown. D said she was going to immediately call her worksite with this information.
During the course of the conversation, D also mentioned a point discussed during the training regarding treatment and care for patients who used substances. She said that before the training she thought that it would be impossible for her substance using patients to be adherent to their HIV medications. After returning to her clinic and seeing this patient, she now thinks that it is not necessarily the case and that she can play a vital role in assisting with adherence. She said it was just another example of stereotypes being broken and assumptions challenged.
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For more study information please contact the Mountain Plains AETC at (303) 315-2516.
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