Best Practice Guidelines
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by: Victoria Alarcon
With more than 500 fellows, RNAO’s Advanced Clinical Practice Fellowship (ACPF) program has reached new heights over the last two decades. Refreshed in 2022, the program now provides opportunities for RNs and NPs to develop their knowledge, skills and expertise in four different fellowship streams, each with an overarching goal ...
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by: Larry Sawyer
CAMH commits to three-year implementation of RNAO BPGs
On Jan. 31 of this year, RNAO was proud to announce that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) renewed its commitment to implement RNAO best practice guidelines (BPG) and rejoin its Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) program. This agreement re-aff...
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by: Rita Wilson
Imagine being able to quickly complete a comprehensive assessment of a new long-term care resident with user-friendly technology that supports evidence-based practice. And imagine having access to system-generated progress notes that eliminate double documentation and the need to search for resident information in different plac...
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by: Morgan Hoffarth
It’s hard to believe that this is my last President’s View column. While we have all experienced the concept of time differently during the pandemic, the past two years have flown by for me.
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun, Dr. Shanoja Naik, Kimberley Kearsey
Publisher’s note: More than 1,000 health service and academic organizations on five continents are actively engaged in the Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO)* program. They have formal partnerships with RNAO to implement and measure the impact of multiple best practice guidelines (BPG) on patient outcomes, as well as or...
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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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RNAO has published its newest best practice guideline (BPG) to replace two former BPGs on bladder and bowel management.
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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...