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Evidence-based expert: Use R-R-R to relay information

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 17, 2008

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This week's expert, Judith "Ski" Lower, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN, lends strategies on how to conduct effective meetings and avoid overloading your staff with information.

Q: How do I make sure the information I'm sharing at meetings is relevant to my audience?

A: In today's hectic healthcare environment, with short staffing, high acuity, and information overload, it is the manager's responsibility to create meetings that are valuable and not held just for the sake of having the obligatory gathering. Everyone suffers from information overload. The manager should triage information so nurses have to read only about what is truly relevant to their practice. An easy way to do this is to have a small notebook titled R-R-R. This stands for:

• Read (the information is mandatory and all staff must read it)
• Respond (after reading, staff should initial it as proof they have read it)
• Remove (information stays in the book for only two weeks, after which the manager removes it)

Educate all staff so they know the one place to find required reading is in the R-R-R book.

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