Kimberley Kearsey

In February, RNAO marked Black History Month at its 26th annual Queen’s Park Day in Toronto, releasing the best practice guideline (BPG), Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Nursing (AABR).BPG co-chair Dr. Bukola Oladunni Salami, a nursing professor at the University of Alberta, was one of four speakers at the Queen’s Park media stu...

Gurjit Sangha began her career as a staff RN at Toronto's The Hospital for Sick Children (now SickKids). She reflects back to her younger self and recalls her desire to step outside of the clinical setting, admitting it was sometimes stressful and all-consuming at the bedside. That’s why her HUB Fellowship in 2006 could not have...

Pikangikum Health Authority, which is located in Pikangikum First Nation, a fly-in Ojibwe community in northern Ontario, is implementing RNAO’s Adopting eHealth Solutions best practice guideline (BPG). In March 2026, RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun, President NP Lhamo Dolkar and President-Elect Sue LeBeau paid a special visit t...

Almost 15 years ago, RNAO began calling for RN scope expansion to include RN prescribing. The first call was formalized in the 2012 report, Primary Solutions for Primary Care. Read this issue's in-depth feature Enhancing practice, improving care for our full coverage of RN prescribing in Ontario. See below for a quick look at th...

Attendees at the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) (May 29-30) were intrigued as they descended the escalators into the Toronto Hilton conference area and saw the celebratory balloon archway leading into a dedicated history room marking the association’s 100th anniversary. The room was a first-ev...

On May 29 and 30, 2025, RNAO hosted its 100th Annual General Meeting (AGM) with more than a combined 1,000 RNs, NPs and nursing students joining the festivities in person and online. For highlights, RNAO members can read the May 2025 issue of the association’s monthly newsletter, In the Loop. The AGM portal is also open to ...

International news This spring, RNAO welcomed international visitors from China, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos to experience evidence-based nursing practice in the Canadian context. Li Jun (Jaylee) and Ye Jing (Meridith) are BPSO leads at Peking University First Hospital in China. They arrived in May for a two-month "s...

RNAO members attending the 100th anniversary Annual General Meeting (AGM) in person were invited to tour a dedicated space at the venue that housed a curated collection of RNAO historical images and nursing artifacts. The decade-by-decade museum was a hit with visitors. And it included an interactive puzzle game in which pl...

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...