A recent perspectives piece in the Journal of Research in Nursing "Tactics for influencing policy" by Andree le May discussed keynotes delivered at the RCN International Research Conference around using research to influence policy.  The article extrapolates 6 key tactics from the keynotes that people could use to help to influence policy:

• Generate high quality, relevant and timely research that policy makers will find useful
  
• Identify a receptive context where these research findings and ideas are likely to make an impact on policy and/or practice
  
• Create and frame arguments within it that will promote the adoption of ideas
  
• Collaborate and to bring people together to blend research with other sorts of evidence
  
• Be persuasive through their use of carefully constructed arguments
  
• Identify and use strategically placed people to transform policy into everyday life
  

The full article can be read HERE and the original keynote presentations can be viewed HERE However le May concludes by stating: 

"The three keynotes showed the sort of tactics that researchers need to become familiar with – and to use – if they are to help knit together the research–policy interface. However, they also showed how important it is to recognise practitioners as the final brokers so that high quality research not only shapes policy, but brings benefit to the public. What matters in the end is not just that research affects policy, but that it also feeds through policy into care."

This collaborative WeNurses #JRNtalk discussion aims to explore how ultimately we can achieve just this - the tactics we need for influencing policy and ultimately feeding policy founded in research into care.