BPG

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...

As the importance of RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Program continues to captivate leaders worldwide – and more and more countries join the movement – RNAO is expanding its Host model initiative, first introduced a decade ago in Ibero-America. Spain, Chile and Colombia (members* of the Ibero-American c...

Shortly after RN Caroline Miller gave birth to her first child nine years ago, she began experiencing intrusive thoughts that made life debilitating at times. She would lie awake at night planning how she’d rescue her child from her car if she suddenly drove off the road. She was scared to do dishes in case she dropped a sharp u...

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...

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...

Bringing RNAO’s outstanding best practice guideline (BPG) work to the second annual Global Evidence Summit in Prague this past September was a tremendous honour.The journey to the summit was a powerful learning experience. RNAO’s guideline development and research team submitted four abstracts for consideration and were excited ...

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...

RN Nikki Mann says co-authoring a peer-reviewed article about implementing RNAO’s pain management best practice guideline (BPG) was incredibly rewarding. The director of resident services and Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) lead at Toronto’s Villa Colombo long-term care home knows the impact BPGs are having on her ...

RNAO’s new Open Library – an online resource – is now available to anyone interested in a curated collection of journal articles and reports showcasing the real-world impact of the Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) Program and its Best Practice Spotlight Organizations® (BPSO®), plus RNAO’s policy and advocacy work.The library will ...

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...