For this last week of discussion, go back to the lesson for the week and review the Nurses on Boards and the National Nurse Campaign. As you reflect on what you have learned over the last 8 weeks:

1.  What are your plans for the future?

2.  Will you heed the call for action and join an organization like Nurses on Boards or become engaged with the National Nurse Campaign?

3.  Will you join a professional nursing organization?

4.  Do you have other ideas that would work to benefit your community or an organization that is important to you?

5.  Share with the class what your plans are now that you have a new awareness of your abilities and capabilities to provide advocacy beyond the beside.

6.  Compose your final Tweet about this class. Remember to be concise as Twitter only allows 140 characters. Share your Tweet in the discussion.

• Review Resources and reflect on the various strategies that may be helpful in disseminating effective and widely cited EBP.
  • This may include: unit-level or organizational-level presentations, poster presentations, and podium presentations at organizational, local, regional, state, and national levels, as well as publication in peer-reviewed journals.
• Reflect on which type of dissemination strategy you might use to communicate EBP.

MAIN POST:  Post at least two dissemination strategies you would be most inclined to use and explain why. Explain which dissemination strategies you would be least inclined to use and explain why. Identify at least two barriers you might encounter when using the dissemination strategies you are most inclined to use. Be specific and provide examples. Explain how you might overcome the barriers you identified.

Use resource:

 Organizational Change Strategies for Evidence-Based Practice

Newhouse, R. , Dearholt, S. , Poe, S. , Pugh, L. & White, K. (2007). Organizational Change Strategies for Evidence-Based Practice. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 37 (12), 552-557. doi: 10.1097/01.NNA.0000302384.91366.8f.

Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step: Implementing an Evidence-Based Practice Change

Gallagher-Ford, L. , Fineout-Overholt, E. , Melnyk, B. & Stillwell, S. (2011). Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step: Implementing an Evidence-Based Practice Change. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 111 (3), 54-60. doi: 10.1097/10.1097/01.NAJ.0000395243.14347.7e.

Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step: Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice Through Organizational Policies and an Innovative Model

Melnyk, B. , Fineout-Overholt, E. , Gallagher-Ford, L. & Stillwell, S. (2011). Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step: Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice Through Organizational Policies and an Innovative Model. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 111 (9), 57-60. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000405063.97774.0e.