Strategies and Barriers of Dissemination of EBP

The first dissemination strategy that I would use is in-service education.  I personally enjoy this type of interactive learning. When I attend in-service education I am much more likely to retain the information as I learn things by seeing/doing them.  According to Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2018) all stages of the process should be included during the in-service such as, problem identification, strength of evidence, plans for ongoing monitoring and outcome indicators (p.398). When all of the stages aren’t included there are higher rates of noncompliance of the implementation phase (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2018, p. 398). One of the barriers involved in in-service education is that not all staff may attend the services.  To overcome this barrier services would need to be made mandatory in order to ensure that all staff are attending the educational sessions as many otherwise drop out or decide not to participate/complete the training.

The second dissemination strategy that I would incorporate is the use of mentors, also known as EBP experts (Newhouse et al, 2007). The mentor’s goals would be to facilitate and incorporate EBP goals and responsibilities (Newhouse et al, 2007). They would teach the new staff members about the implementation plan and new practices being put into place. One of the barriers of using mentors is that nursing leadership needs to accommodate schedules and be able to give the mentors the adequate amount of time off needed in order to participate in the mentor training (Newhouse et al, 2007).

Dissemination Strategy Least Likely to Use

The dissemination strategy that I would be least likely to use is poster-board presentations. As I had mentioned above I don’t personally like to present things in person, I think it would be difficult to make a poster presentation mandatory as there would have to be many presentation times in order to accommodate all staff participation. This may be difficult to do if there were only one person presenting the information as this would require the presenter to be there a lot and they may not have time for that in their schedule.