A Guide to Disseminating Your DNP Project / Edition 1

by Marilyn Smith-Stoner PhD, MSN, RN

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826133168
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/26/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marilyn Smith-Stoner, PhD, MSN, RN, has been a nurse for more than 30 years.

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Kathleen M. Woodruff, DNP, RN, ANP-BC(USC School of Social Work)
Description: This book focuses on providing readers with a plan for delivering the completed capstone to the public. The author provides step-by-step instructions for completing the process of disseminating the project. Access to an electronic version is also available.
Purpose: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students are completing capstone projects that can have a positive impact on healthcare. However, to actually make a positive impact, the information must be made available to healthcare administrators and leaders. Information can be disseminated through a variety of venues and formats, and this book provides suggestions for appropriate delivery of the material. The author does an excellent job meeting the objective of exploring the multitude of methods for disseminating doctoral and other graduate level projects.
Audience: This resource is focused on assisting doctoral and other graduate nursing students with the ultimate goal of disseminating their projects and findings. It is extremely useful for students. The book provides a variety of ways to accomplish this goal, from the more traditional manuscript or presentation to a wide variety of avenues through the web and social media.
Features: The book explores disseminating the project and helping readers to identify the appropriate delivery medium. The author then discusses developing a strategic plan for this process. The later sections focus on specific areas such as print media, oral presentations, and other nontraditional methods. The book concludes with insights on using this experience to help readers enhance and grow their careers.
Assessment: This unique book provides graduate nursing students with a step-by-step guide to disseminating their final projects. This tool encourages graduates to complete the educational journey by sharing their results/conclusions on a specific healthcare issue.

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