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   .   Working Groups   >>   Access to Research & Building Linkages

  Outcomes:
  • ACRUN has a profile as a viable organization
  • have active participation from all stakeholders in each province
  • Continuity among provinces and stakeholders in each province
  • hyperlinked to other key organizations and accessed by others
  • web page with linkages to other sources
  • widespread familiarity and comfort with ACRUN's mandate and activities
  • regular forums for anyone to present and hear about research
  • published, peer reviewed journal/newsletter
  • better results on surveys of stakeholder access and utilization of research
  • a research corner in provider facilities
  • regular participation in ACRUN sponsored research clinics and mentoring
  • cross-discipline and cross-province forums

  Strategies:

  Membership --
write and meet with stakeholders asking that a representative be named for a 2-year term (and written response)

ask stakeholders to connect with counterparts in other provinces

work groups representative of all stakeholders and provinces

  Communication/marketing --
develop a web-page, chat room, determine linkages

negotiate hyperlinks with related organizations and federal departments, CNA, etc.

Media coverage regarding ACRUN studies/findings

have booths with fact sheets at conferences in Atlantic region, e.g., professional associations, ARCAUSN, research days

newsletter to provide tips on accessing research, databases, etc., eg. Cochrane Collaboration, Sigma Theta Tau

strike a newsletter committe; publish 4 per year, use a mailing list of broad stakeholder groups

promote journal clubs with a regional flavour

schedule forums in partnerships with other organizations for 2002

conduct regular, periodic surveys

  Other --
policy at the clinical level to assert these strategies, i.e., journal club participation.