Disseminating Evidence Health Management

Question: Summarize the strategy for disseminating the results of the project ( Cardiovascular nursing care and interventions) to key stakeholders and to the greater nursing community. Answer: For the results of the project, Cardiovascular nursing care and interventions, dissemination is the targeteddistributionof information and intervention materials to a specific public health or clinical practice audience. The intent is to spread knowledge and the associated evidence-based interventions. Dissemination occurs through a variety of channels, social contexts, and settings. Evidence dissemination has several very broad goals: (1) to increase the reach of evidence; (2) to increase peoples motivation to use and apply evidence; and (3) to increase peoples ability to use and apply evidence.Dissemination strategies aim to spread knowledge and the associated evidence-based interventions on a wide scale within or across geographic locations, practice settings, or social or other networks of end-users such as patients and health care providers (Coleman, Rosenbek Roman, 2013). In examining influences that help spread innovations along the continuum between passive diffusion of info rmation and active dissemination, Greenhalgh et al. created an inventory of strategies aimed at influencing individual, social, and other networks of adopters Existing systematic reviews and dissemination research show that passive dissemination strategies are not as effective as active strategies. For example, in a synthesis of 41 systematic reviews, Grimshaw and colleagues16 reported that active, multifaceted approaches were most effective.16Additional research also supports this conclusion. Interventions that rely solely on passive information transfer are relatively ineffective, but active knowledge-translation strategies are usually effective (although the effects are modest). Educational outreach and academic detailing are the most consistently effective interventions reported. Interventions that incorporate two or more distinct strategies (i.e., that are multifaceted) are consistently more likely to work than single interventions (Straus, Tetroe Graham, 2013). References Coleman, E. A., Rosenbek, S. A., Roman, S. P. (2013). Disseminating evidence-based care into practice.Population health management,16(4), 227-234. Straus, S., Tetroe, J., Graham, I. D. (Eds.). (2013).Knowledge translation in health care: moving from evidence to practice. John Wiley Sons.