Creating and Sharing Knowledge Resources

Suggestions on how members and chapters can create and share knowledge resources.

Members

• Join an existing honor society Community of Interest or form a new one.
  
  
• Become a peer reviewer for honor society research, abstracts, proposals, Journal of Nursing Scholarship or Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing articles.
  
  
• Write an online continuing nursing education module or serve as a beta tester.
  
  
• Apply for a Sigma Theta Tau International Research grant or scholarship.  
  
  
• Present your clinical innovation, research or knowledge work in a global forum or conference.
  
  
• Complete a mentorship program for writing research grants and give professional presentations.
  
  
• Submit a research abstract you have completed to the Registry of Nursing Research Database.
  
  
• Submit an article for publication in an honor society journal: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Reflections on Nursing Leadership, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing or another peer-reviewed journal.
  
  

Chapters

• Jointly fund scholarships and grants with local professional societies.
  
  
• Contribute educational faculty/student exchanges and knowledge experts to the honor society’s International Academic Nursing Alliance.
  
  
• Support nursing research by making a gift to the foundation.
  
  
• Plan and offer an annual or biennial program with other chapters or hospitals that focuses on nursing research, best practices or clinical innovations.
  
  
• Establish e-forums or a journal club for members to share their personal stories of how they used knowledge resources to improve their nursing practice.
  
  
• Identify Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) resources available to members through the honor society or other organizations.
  
  
• Give a chapter award for excellence in evidence-based practice.
  

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