Once the effectiveness of an evidence-based change proposal has undergone the various impact assessment steps, the ultimate stage is its dissemination. Dissemination mainly involves spreading or sharing the gathered project findings to the targeted audience through publications, conferences, or online media (Dudley-Brown, 2019). Typically, the main motivation for the distribution of the findings and recommendations from the change proposal is to further the knowledge and insight of other members and stakeholders in the medical field on the subject at hand (Dudley-Brown, 2019). Such an undertaking embraces the unity of purpose in a given controversial proposition and ensures all health industry partners read from the same page. Moreover, reporting the change proposals to the target audience welcomes any form of positive or negative criticism and helps to positively inspire and shape future research works on the designated subject (Dudley-Brown, 2019). Additionally, the evidence-based change proposals can be implemented to become the standard of practice.
The dissemination process can be carried out through different techniques and methods that include both internal and external (Sarver & McNett, 2020). Internal dissemination entails sharing the details of the concluded project with members within the given organization (Sarver & McNett, 2020). This could either be fellow health practitioners such as physicians, nurses, or the top management governing the hospital board. External dissemination focuses on persons or groups outside the hospital fraternity (Sarver & McNett, 2020). For example, another professional nursing institute can aim to use the project finding to further its research work.
For an effective dissemination process, targeted communication should be adopted. When reaching out to the internal members, the best communication strategy could be face to face. It removes room for bias, creates a thorough questioning platform, and ensures quick and direct feedback from the participants (Sarver & McNett, 2020). However, where communication is shifted to the external players, then a better strategy would be through formal publications. Submitting the change proposals in print media to other stakeholders, in this case, another professional nursing institution, helps them be equally exposed to the knowledge base of that project (Sarver & McNett, 2020). Consequently, the research findings can be easily accepted and hence, adopted extensively by other nursing organizations. Eventually, this model gives room for common nursing practices.
References
Dudley-Brown, S. (2019). Dissemination of evidence in nursing and healthcare. Translation of Evidence Into Nursing and Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.1891/9780826147370.0012
Sarver, W., & McNett, M. (2020). Determining the dissemination plan: Internal and external considerations. Data for Nurses, 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-816543-0.00007-8
