Best Practice Guidelines
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
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...
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by: Andrea Gómez Palacio Schjetnan
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...
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by: Kristen Campbell
In the spring of 2025, I had the privilege of representing RNAO at the 23rd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC25). I travelled to Lisbon, Portugal, where I presented an abstract co-authored with the East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Ontario Health Team (OHT).Entitled...
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by: Victoria Alarcon
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...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
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...
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The newest editions of two best practice guidelines (BPG) were released in the Fall of 2024. Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Prevention, Assessment, and Management (third edition) was published on Oct.
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
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.
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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: 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...