Kimberley Kearsey

For almost two decades, southwestern Ontario’s Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA), an RNAO Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®), has been implementing the Preventing Falls and Reducing Injury from Falls best practice guideline (BPG). “We’ve covered every recommendation (in every edition since 2006),” boasts RN Mar...

After 25 years of growth and expansion, RNAO’s Best Practice Guideline (BPG) Program has become an impressive social movement of science that stretches across health sectors and geographical borders. Health professionals, their patients and families, researchers and policymakers are working behind the scenes to support the ongoi...

As we mark 25 years of RNAO’s Best Practice Guideline (BPG) Program, we would be remiss if we did not take a closer look at how today’s social landscape informs BPGs and the work of Best Practice Spotlight Organizations® (BPSO®). The issues of anti-Black racism, Indigenous health, 2SLGBTQI+ health equity and harm reduction are s...

RNAO’s 2024 AGM was an inspiring event that included many special guests who attended in person and virtually. International nursing leaders included Dr. Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu, chief nursing officer for the World Health Organization, Dr. Pamela Cipriano, president of the International Council of Nurses, and Dr. Sandr...

Members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community experience high rates of stigma and discrimination both outside and inside the health system. According to John Edwards, an RN and member of the community, secretary of RNAO’s Rainbow Nursing Interest Group (RNIG), and a researcher who focused on this for his master’s degree (read more in our R...

BPSO expansion: On the international stageThe important work of BPG implementation and evaluation continues around the world, and there was special attention this spring on Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain and Portugal). The newest group of BPSO graduates to receive their designation at RNAO’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in ...

As an RN and NP, Lhamo Dolkar has worked in group homes, long-term care, nursing homes, acute care, primary care and community health. She says her diverse experience in multiple sectors gives her the knowledge and confidence to represent nurses across the province as RNAO president. She feels she has a responsibility to be coll...

After two decades, RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) movement has welcomed more than 150,000 champions in Ontario and around the world who volunteer to raise awareness of the benefits of implementing best practice guidelines (BPG) in their organizations. Lucia Taggart (below) is one of those champions who, lik...

For Ann Roberts, a nurse of 35 years, being a best practice guideline (BPG) champion is about doing something that is “meaningful.” BPGs are incredibly meaningful because they’re having an impact, the Montfort Hospital palliative care RN says. A self-described “product” of Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) cultu...

RNAO’s 18th annual Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Symposium in September 2023 saw more than 235 representatives from local, national and international BPSOs gather in Toronto for three days of knowledge sharing and networking. Whether providing in-person or virtual concurrent sessions, or chatting with colleagues ...