When I joined RNAO almost 30 years ago, I made a commitment to draw on evidence in everything we do as a professional association. Whether it’s excellence in clinical practice, healthy workplaces, healthy public policy, educational resources, or media engagement – every aspect of our work is built on strong and compelling evidence.
BPSO
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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: Victoria Alarcon
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...
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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: Amy Garza
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...
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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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by: Kimberley Kearsey
BPSO expansion: On the international stageThe important work of BPG implementation and evaluation continues around the world, and there was special attention this spring on Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain and Portugal). The newest group of BPSO graduates to receive their designation at RNAO’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in ...
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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.