Disseminating Evidence

Disseminating Evidence

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Disseminating Evidence

A Summary of strategies for disseminating the results of the project to key stakeholders and to the greater nursing community

The project results will be disseminated through published reports. However since most nurses do not catch up with relevant practice through one report, the project coordinators will publish as many reports as possible to ensure that each nurse reviews about 18 reports per day. Good practices in patient care are pegged on the dissemination of the most recent evidence. Without credible evidence to underline practice, nurses more often than not find themselves aggravated for being incapacitated in the provision of the best likely care (Kohn and Donaldson, 2010).

Education

The translation of research findings into practice could take up to two decades, to ensure that this does not happen; the project coordinators will use educational forums to teach patients and nurses on the relevance of the project’s findings as regards the development of the new staffing matrix to positively impact overall delivery of health care to the patients. The project coordinators will seek to maintain skill levels through habitual and progressive professional development. These will have to be related to initiatives such as the skills and knowledge framework, as well as appraisal procedures, where nurses will be appraised by the patients on the quality of delivery of health care (Polit and Hungler, 2006).

The Education of Nurses

The effective outcomes of the project’s findings will have to mirror the need to involve nurses still in training institutions in order to successfully impress them on the significance of evidence based practice relative to effective clinical outcomes (Kohn and Donaldson, 2010).

Time Management Skills

To ensure that the successful dissemination of the project’s findings does not take two decades as has been the case in the past, nurses will have to be taught time management skills. The project coordinators will introduce educational platforms for nurses to specifically be imparted with skills necessary for reading, critiquing and disseminating research (Polit and Hungler, 2006).

Current Systems

In order to successfully disseminate the project’s results to key stakeholders and the greater nursing community the project coordinators will make use of the existing systems to monitor the effectiveness of the clinical outcomes and evidence based practice. This will relate with the use of link forums and specialist knowledge that are already being supported by the hospitals in the district (Kohn and Donaldson, 2010).

Communication

The project coordinators will monitor the lines of communication between nurses and patients to ensure they are evaluated and robust. Since this relates to individual responsibilities and organizational influence all stakeholders will have to identify their roles while appreciating the role played by others. This will in the end ensure that the project’s results are successfully disseminated to key stakeholders and the greater nursing community (Polit and Hungler, 2006).

The Profession of Nursing

The project coordinators will ensure that Nursing as trained in institutions becomes more academic without losing the sight of what it is all about. For instance through patients’ appraisal mechanisms and continued professional development nursing would be made to be fundamental to clinical outcomes and evidence based practice (Kohn and Donaldson, 2010).

Conclusion

The potential to gain high level evidence to impact on the quality of care received by patients necessitates a commitment from nurses and all health stakeholders. It is only through exhibiting commitment for disseminating and supporting clinical outcomes and evidence based practices can the health care system salvage the trust it initially had from members of the public. By committing themselves to communicate their latest clinical outcomes and evidence based practices nurses be able to increase their self esteem, morale and reduce their frustration for having been incapacitated in the past in their efforts to provide the best care to their patients.

References

Polit DF, Beck CT, & Hungler B.P. (2006.) Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal and Utilization (Fifth edition), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia PA.

Kohn, L. T., Corrigan, J. M., & Donaldson, M. S. (Eds.). (2010). To error is human: Building a safer health system. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.