Staff Professional Development
Professional development activities are a requirement for all home visitors and supervisors. The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals Pre-Assessment (referenced in Chapter 1 and the Orientation Checklist) should be used to determine which topic areas would be most appropriate to explore. Check out the FCH Home Visiting Training Resources website for more professional development ideas. Nurses should remember that two hours of cultural competency continuing education and one hour of pain management continuing education is required by OSBN for license renewal. The two hours of equity continuing education required annually by Babies First!/CaCoon (see Chapter 5, Continuing Education) can be used to meet the OSBN cultural competency training required by OSBN.
Data Collection and Monitoring
The ultimate why of data collection is meaningful reports to guide change. We collect data related to community public health and program management. The most important of these is community public health. These data answer questions like:
- What are client strengths?
- What are client needs?
- How does home visiting help clients?
- What systemic changes are needed to improve community health?
Data for program management answers questions such as:
- How are clients being identified?
- Who is participating? Who is not?
- What interventions are used?
- Are evidence-informed practices followed (i.e., on-time assessments)?
Program data must be entered in THEO (see Chapter 5) within 10 business days of a visit. The state assessment and evaluation team is working on data reporting from THEO. Please contact theo.support@odhsoha.oregon.gov with data requests.
Continuous Quality Improvement
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a method for making on-going, responsive program changes to serve clients better. It is highly encouraged that programs become familiar with CQI processes and engage in this work on some level. See
Start Early for general information on CQI. Also, see this
tip sheet on partnering with families to do CQI. For more information and resources, or to get help starting a CQI project, contact your state nurse consultant.
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