BPSO

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MINSAL Chile: A nation-wide success story

by: Larry Sawyer

Fifteen newly designated Best Practice Spotlight Organizations (BPSO) now include Chile’s MINSAL (National Ministry of Health in Chile) program. MINSAL’s public hospitals have seen positive results in patient outcomes due to the successful implementation and consistent use of RNAO’s best practice guidelines (BPG).  Dr. F...

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BPG CORNER: Welcoming more BPSOs to international program

by: Heather McConnell, Peta-Gay (PG) Batten

For the past year, health systems around the world have been under severe strain combating a deadly virus to save lives. Admirably, despite the pandemic, the important work of implementing BPGs to advance evidence-based care has continued at home and abroad. RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) program welcomed man...

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BPG corner: Highlights from the groundbreaking BPSO OHT program

by: Kimberley Kearsey

Reta, 95, lives in a retirement home across the street from Newmarket’s Southlake Regional Health Centre. Judy Smith, her daughter-in-law, is not her substitute decision-maker, but the person Reta wants all health decisions to go through. Smith has seen first-hand the impact and value of person...

RN Profile

Mediocrity is not part of the mission

by: Wendy Glauser

Before she took on her current role as senior director of evidence-based practice integration at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital, Nataly Farshait spent a decade teaching nursing students at Seneca College.

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Feeling proud

by: Kimberley Kearsey

As we bring you new content for RNJ, we also mark the start of a new membership year at RNAO. The fall is always an exciting time at home office, with all staff on deck to renew existing members and welcome new ones.

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Blazing a trail to the best patient care

by: Dr. Doris Grinspun

In my last column, I shared news about how RNAO continues to influence health system transformation by supporting Best Practice Spotlight Organizations (BPSO) applying to join Ontario Health Teams (OHT).

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BPG corner: International events draw fervor for BPGs, BPSOs

by: Kimberley Kearsey

Two world-recognized nursing events – Sigma International Nursing Research Congress (INRC) in Calgary and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress in Singapore – exposed nursing and health-care leaders from around the world to RNAO’s influential best practice guidelines (BPG) as well as its powerful Best Practice Spotl...

RN Profile

The privilege of palliative care

by: Victoria Alarcon

As the daughter of a physician and RN, Meredith Muscat was always inspired by her parents and the care they provided to others. She recalls some people in her small town approaching her dad to thank him for the impact he had on their lives, or the lives of their loved ones.

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A solution for all sectors

by: Lesley Young

Every health sector faces unique nursing challenges, but there’s one strategy that supports best practices unconditionally and spans them all: RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) program.  While earning BPSO designation gives organizations a leg up within their sector– enabling them to be leading examples ...

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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