Any thoughts on evaluating a volunteer outreach program that uses nursing students enrolled at a university? How would you evaluate the program on Kirkpatrick's level 2,3, or 4? Could use a survey for level 1, but how about evaluation on other levels?

Look real hard at the goals and expectations of this program. Why was it established ? I hope you are not trying to evaluate a program in process or worse yet completed. What should these student nurses know or accomplish ? What does the school, and health care organization gain? Have preceptor and nursing supervisor evaluate on an ongoing basis. Like they do or should do student teaching Level 1234....... will tell you little.

Nero

thx nero....good perspectives to look at (school, hc organization gains). Have you had any success in any type of business setting/organization/educational institution evaluation with Kirkpatrick on levels 2-4? I know level 1 is easy to obtain and 'popular' but I'm trying to move past level 1.

Mrs. Mizo...

Are you with the outreach program or the university itself...(or both)?

Certainly the basic pre/post test approach should address level 2 feedback. To get at level 3 is it logistically possible to gather feedback from the client (the outreach program). Specifically, are there people in th outreach program that observe the students?

If that is the case you could deploy a fairly simple instrument. The feedback could also be examined for individual students as well as in the aggregate...possibly highlighting gaps in the current programming.

Yes, its usually What do you want to do? What are you doing to acheive it? What are your results? All agreed to before less how do the volunteers know.I think that Kirkpatrick is the not the appropriate evaluative tool.
A short look at his Eval.Trng. Programs and I really have found no direct reference to your situation. Square with me: Why/ must it be Kirkpatrick? funding demands or some genuis just heard about this method.
One of the reasons people do volunteer work is to get something of value from the experience(as they define it)I don't see Kirkpatrick capturing that. Perhaps a the use of focus groups after