Whenever I develop my findings in my Course Project, I could use many different means to disseminate them to health care organizations. First, I need to understand my audience, which will mostly be medical professionals working with hypertension (physicians, cardiologists, etc.). I do not believe that clients or laypersons will be viable audience members, but I may be able to expand my findings to non-English speaking populations. Finding a communication outlet will also be interesting; I would like to do formal talks with audiences (possibly at medical conferences) or simply submit written material in a poster session (p. 680). This medical conference could provide other researchers and practitioners with the findings of my Course Project, thus enabling them to understand and disseminate this information to others in their organizations. I believe this is the best way to get these findings to a broad audience of those who would actually be receptive to the information. Another way would be to write the findings in a journal article that could be published in an appropriate medical journal.
In order to develop a network of colleagues with which I could disseminate EBP, I could do a number of things, including performing networking initiatives at said medical conferences. This would put me in touch with many professionals who have similar EBP resources, with which we could exchange information and pass them on to our respective organizations. I believe this would allow us to vet information and present only the most reliable findings to each other. Participatory action research (PAR) is also another great way to collaborate with EBP groups and encourage cooperation with each other.
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