BPG
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by: 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...
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by: Lyndsay Howitt, Stephanie Buchanan
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 ...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey, Madison Scaini
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...
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by: Alicia Saunders
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 ...
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by: Alexa Parousis
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 ...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
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...
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by: Madison Scaini
Fourth-year nursing student Cordelia Copeland was working on her presentation for the inaugural Student-Led Academic Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Conference when Hurricane Beryl hit her home in the coastal community of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. The Category 5 hurricane left her community without electricity in Jul...
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RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Program is again expanding its reach beyond Canadian borders.
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Following the intense and exhaustive work of an expert panel, researchers, policy makers, people with lived experience, and the guideline development team at RNAO, the association’s newest BPG was previewed during a webinar in March, six weeks before its official release during Nursing Week 2024 in May.
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
The positive energy and enthusiasm at this year’s five-day International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress – hosted in partnership with the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) in early July – was palpable. More people gathered and chatted in the venue hallways than I’ve seen ever before.