July / August 2018

Year
2018
Volume
30
No.
4
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A group of health-care providers surrounding newborn and mother
Feature
Making good business sense in acute care
by: Lesley Young
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...
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Map of RNAO BPSO locations
Feature
What is a BPSO: Definitons
by: Staff
WHAT IS A BPSO A Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) is a health-care or academic organization selected by RNAO through a request for proposals process to implement and evaluate RNAO’s best practice guidelines (BPG). BPSO DIRECT A BPSO Direct Organization is responsible for implementing and evaluating BPGs withi...
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Anne-Marie Malek and Shirlee Sharkey
Feature
What does it take to be a pioneering BPSO?
by: Lesley Young
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...
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Column
Chance encounters lead to chats about BPGs
by: Kimberley Kearsey

While visiting the toronto island this summer, I found myself in the same First Aid station where I once worked as a summer student. As I looked around and reminisced, the young man now occupying the role asked me if I had ever been to the island before. I used to sit right where you’re sitting, I told him. We laughed at the coincidence.

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In the End
What nursing means to me
by: Leanne Paquette

The final semester is done and my master’s degree complete. As i reach this academic milestone, I can’t help but reflect on how the journey to an MN has shaped my nursing career perspective.

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Elaine Santa Mina
RN Profile
An appetite for knowledge
by: Lesley Young

Elaine Santa Mina will tell you she’s not a very good career planner: “Many nurses have a well-defined career trajectory, but that’s not been me.” However, for someone who has worked in nursing for over 46 years, and managed to “fall in love” with what she does, Santa Mina has had tremendously good luck, and an eerily good sense of intuition.

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Amalia Silva-Galleguillos (second from right), who has conducted BPSO training in Chile, Colombia and Portugal, says the experience has opened doors to new career opportunities.
Feature
How BPSO trainers support evidence-based nursing globally
by: Victoria Alarcon
As a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) co-ordinator and RN for Toronto Public Health (TPH), May Tao sees the impact she is making every day supporting the implementation of RNAO’s best practice guidelines (BPG) at her workplace. In her role, Tao collaborates with staff to come up with plans to implement BPGs and eva...
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