Week 7 DQ: disseminating EBP findings to nurses

The first prompt asks about two audiences and then about coverage, and the structure matters because the answer is different for each. A staff nurse receives information at the bedside and inside the shift: huddles, a change-of-shift briefing, a unit poster or storyboard, a laminated bedside reminder, a revised order set that carries the evidence in the workflow, a skills-day station, a unit newsletter, a peer champion who already has credibility on the floor. An advanced practice nurse is reached through channels with more formal authority: grand rounds, a journal club, a professional-organisation presentation, a peer-reviewed publication, a policy or protocol revision, continuing education. Then answer the third part explicitly, because coverage is a separate problem: audit who was reached rather than who was invited, plan for nights, weekends and agency staff, and put the finding in a place people encounter in the course of the work rather than in a place they must remember to visit.

The second question turns to submission guidelines, and it wants you to have actually opened one. Name the journal or conference — the prompt requires it — and report what its guidelines specify: abstract word limit and structure, manuscript categories, required reporting checklists such as SQUIRE for improvement work or PRISMA for reviews, reference style and limit, figure and table specifications, IRB and consent statements, conflict-of-interest and authorship declarations, and the blinding requirements for peer review. Then say why those components exist, which is the analytic half: a structured abstract makes work findable and screenable, reporting checklists make it appraisable and reproducible, and disclosure statements let a reader judge bias. Formatting is not fussiness — desk rejection for non-compliance is common and costs months of delay, and a consistent format is what lets a reviewer compare competing submissions on their content rather than on how carefully their authors read the instructions.