RNAO has published its newest best practice guideline (BPG) to replace two former BPGs on bladder and bowel management.
Best Practice Guidelines
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by: Ashley McLellan
Publisher’s note: RNAO’s Best Practice Champions Network enlists thousands of nurses and other health professionals across the province to share their passion for evidence-based practice and RNAO best practice guidelines (BPG). These “champions” participate in virtual workshops and e-learning to acquire t...
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by: Morgan Hoffarth
A new membership year has begun at RNAO and I thought it would be fitting to share a little bit about my membership journey.
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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...
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun, Janet Squires, Katherine Wallace, Shelly-Anne Li, Susan McNeill
For over two decades, RNAO’s strong, evidence-based documents have positioned the association and its members for success. Whether best practice guidelines (BPG) or well-researched policy documents, the evidence RNAO provides is robust and impactful. Yet, as explained in chapter 18 of RNAO’s book Transforming Nursing Through Kno...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Over the last six years, 52 nursing homes have joined and are actively participating in RNAO’s Long-Term Care Best Practice Spotlight Organization (LTC-BPSO) designation program.* The road to LTC-BPSO designation is a rigourous one. It requires a three-year pre-designation period during which each organization has to meet agreed...
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by: Angela Cooper Brathwaite
RNAO’s Fall Tour is always inspiring for me and our CEO Doris Grinspun. We get the opportunity to visit with many of you, where you practise and in the communities you call home across Ontario.
RN Profile
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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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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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...