Lesley Young

Months before Ontario voted for a change of political leadership earlier this year, the opportunity opened up to run for political office in RN Natalia Kusendova’s home riding of Mississauga Centre. “This is where I’ve grown up. I’ve been here 16 years, and I have strong connections to the Polish community,” she says about her d...

Oh sure, embarking on becoming a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) comes with the massive perk of RNAO support, resources and funding, but what does that really translate into for an organization implementing best practice guidelines (BPG)? During the BPSO Symposium at RNAO’s spring AGM, seven organizations from around...

Every health sector faces unique nursing challenges, but there’s one strategy that supports best practices unconditionally and spans them all: RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) program.  While earning BPSO designation gives organizations a leg up within their sector– enabling them to be leading examples ...

According to RN Kathryn Hayward-Murray, senior vice president, patient care services, and chief nursing executive for Trillium Health Partners (THP), becoming a BPSO while also going through a merger in 2012 united more than 10,000 employees and volunteers at three sites toward the same goal: improving patient care. It was Ha...

The early adopters of BPSO designation may tell you the unprecedented undertaking simply made good business sense 15 years ago. In the words of RN Shirlee Sharkey, president and CEO for SE Health (formerly Saint Elizabeth), “…it was a no-brainer. At that time, there was a lot of focus on…being a ‘knowledge organization.’ We felt...