During the evaluation process, the community health nurse collects information and knows that evaluation criteria must be timely and comprehensive. What type of evaluation is best when beginning to plan a community health program?
A) Formative
B) Impact
C) Outcome
D) Managed
Ans: A
Impact or summative evaluation is concerned with the immediate impact of a program on a target group. Process or formative evaluation answers the question: Are we doing what we said we would do? Long-term outcome evaluation is where it is discovered whether the changes had a lasting and real effect.
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