You may have brought a question about a specific problem, and now know how to deal with it, or you may have realised that your previous approach was sub-optimal and needs updating. If you have found anything that really made you think, surprised you or will definitely influence your professional practice, discuss your findings with peers, alert them to useful references that you have found. If there is enough interest then start a journal club to appraise articles. Other methods of dissemination will be discussed in Unit 5. Develop some guidelines.
Guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner decisions .for specific .
Traditionally, they were part of hospital based PG education, with the junior staff taking weekly or monthly turns to present a paper, and the senior staff then debating the applications. Now, they can be more flexible, and you can run one over a wide geographical area using an e-mail list. Or, where there are gaps in the group s knowledge, you can parcel out tasks to plug these. This is a good example of networked learning. Put together your own resource on the subject in question.