Best Practice Guidelines

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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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BPG CORNER: Becoming a BPSO in long-term care

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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Connecting and collaborating with members

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.

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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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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...

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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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Growing a Program

by: Victoria Alarcon

In the beginning, the notion of using  best practice guidelines (BPG) to bring evidence-based nursing to health-care settings across Ontario was nothing more than an idea (or seed) in the minds of RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun and former Best Practice Guideline (BPG) Program director Tazim Virani.  As the association’s BP...

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Big gains being a BPSO

by: Lesley Young

Oh sure, embarking on becoming a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) comes with the massive perk of RNAO support, resources and funding, but what does that really translate into for an organization implementing best practice guidelines (BPG)? During the BPSO Symposium at RNAO’s spring AGM, seven organizations from around...

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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 ...

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