BPSO

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...

When Fairmount Home, a 128-bed long-term care (LTC) home near Kingston, Ontario, joined RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) program in 2023, RN Erika Van Schelven and recreationist Katie Johnson had two goals: to excel at resident care and to more fully engage residents and their families in decisions about that...

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...

When a new resident arrived at Brantford’s Hardy Terrace Long-Term Care facility in the fall of 2023, RN Dalal Isbiteh and her colleagues knew exactly what to do to ensure he was admitted properly. Using RNAO Clinical Pathways, an evidence-based software derived from best practice guidelines (BPG), the team completed a comp...

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 ...

My interest in caring for others started when I was little. I had a neighbour who was only two years younger than me, and whenever I heard him cry, I would tell my mom I had to take care of him. If one of my friends got hurt while we were playing, I would be the first to help, even if it was to simply give them a bandage. A...

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...