Full Description
A Guide to Disseminating Your DNP Project provides an effective, proven blueprint that enables students to disseminate their DNP projects. This book describes the process of disseminating the final written assignment, as recommended by the American Academy of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) for graduation from a DNP program. For all DNP graduates looking to make a positive impact on health care today, dissemination of knowledge and research is imperative to initiate quality improvement effectively. By sharing these projects, DNPs can improve health care.
This book provides step-by-step instruction for all methods of dissemination, from print to digital media. The text provides detailed instructions for each type of dissemination and highlights specific resources and their benefits and drawbacks. It includes explanations of how to use social media, web-based platforms, and alternative artistic means. A Guide to Disseminating Your DNP Project contains a unique set of resources for the DNP graduate.
KEY FEATURES:
Checklists that illustrate the process of transforming a project to a manuscript or other presentation
User-friendly graphics and diagrams that summarize content
An Appendix with over 50 links to online resources for dissemination
A comprehensive Faculty Guide
Contents
Contents
Preface
Unit I: Planning Your Dissemination Strategy
1. Why Take the Time to Disseminate Your Work?
2. Clarifying Research-Focused or Practice-Focused Scholarship
3. Choosing Your Method of Sharing Your Project
4. Determining the Unique Contribution to Health Care
5. Setting Up the Project
6. Group Dissemination Projects
Unit II: Introducing Types of Dissemination Methods
7. Print: Publication in a Professional Journal
8. Print: Publication in Lay Magazines, Newsletters, or Other Sources
9. Digital Media: Websites, eBooks, Podcasts, and Video
10. Multimedia: Give Television and Radio Interviews Like an Expert
11. Creative Presentations, Art, and Other Performances
Unit III: Disseminating Work via Print Methods
12. Creating a Support Team to Help You
13. Alternative Forms for Disseminating Your Project
14. Internal Publications: Handbooks, Policy and Procedure Manuals, Patient Education Material
15. Dissemination Through Professional Print Publications
16. Speaking to Editors, Webmasters, and Practice Committees
17. Initial Submission of Work
18. Rejection and Revisions
19. Acceptance and Follow-Up
Unit IV: Disseminating Work via Oral Presentation Methods
20. Podium Presentation to Professionals: Conferences, Posters
21. Presentations to Lay/Community Audiences
22. Multimedia: Videos, Photographs, and Online Repositories
23. Blogs
Unit V: Disseminating Work via Art and Performance Methods
24. Using Your Talents and Interests to Do Something Innovative
25. Disseminating an Artful Scholarly Project
Unit VI: This Is the Beginning
26. The First Dissemination of Your Work Is the Hardest
27. Your Nursing Career and Continually Building on the First Step
28. Career Planning: Using the Work to Further Your Career
Appendix A. Case Study: Cindy Fike, DNP
Appendix B. SHARED Model Template
Index
