Click here to view. This environmental scan of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit’s (NHSRU) stakeholders will be used to engage users of evidence in the program of research. In order to obtain salient information, seven nursing leaders were interviewed in 2011 and a 15-question online stakeholder survey was conducted.
- Survey participants reported they would like the NHSRU to produce more plain language summaries (49%), web conferences and webcasts (48%) and seminars, conferences and symposia (39%).
- Most stakeholders said they would prefer the NHSRU to host web conferences, which allow participants to see and hear the speaker and ask questions with the use of a headset microphone.
- Our online survey respondents confirmed our intentions to create an NHSRU Facebook page, Twitter account and blog. The stakeholders who completed the online survey and said they use social media (39%) were asked to rank the tools they use the most. Facebook was ranked first, followed by webcasts and podcasts, LinkedIn, wikis, blogs, Twitter were used less frequently.
- Their preferred methods of sharing information include web conferences, teleconferences, face-to-face meetings and an NHSRU blog.