Clinical Practice

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by: Victoria Alarcon
When RN Ruby Amoncio assessed an infected wound on her 16-year-old patient, she knew it was an important issue that needed to be addressed promptly. The wound was urgent for a teenager who was already navigating complex mental health challenges. After completing her assessment, Amoncio reviewed the patient’s history, consul...
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by: Mara Haase

Social media is woven into how nurses engage, advocate, educate and manage the emotional weight of their work. It can serve as a place for solidarity, reflection, humour and social justice.

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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Almost 15 years ago, RNAO began calling for RN scope expansion to include RN prescribing. The first call was formalized in the 2012 report, Primary Solutions for Primary Care. Read this issue's in-depth feature Enhancing practice, improving care for our full coverage of RN prescribing in Ontario. See below for a quick look at th...
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A new partnership between the Alzheimer Society of Niagara Region and Niagara Health aims to help older adults better navigate the health-care system. The program, which started in 2024, puts dementia resource consultants directly in Niagara emergency departments.  

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by: Victoria Alarcon
To spark meaningful conversations about the future of nursing, health and health care, RNs, NPs and nursing students organized meetings as part of RNAO’s 11th Annual Fall Tour from Oct. 27 to Nov. 5, 2025. Chapter, region and interest group members hosted these visits to discuss pressing issues, including: the vital health-...
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by: NP Lhamo Dolkar

I have spent a lot of time lately thinking about equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). About how important these concepts are, and how we, as nurses, cannot be bystanders when it comes to EDI and the pursuit of fairness and justice.

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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: Madison Hietkamp
Shortly after RN Caroline Miller gave birth to her first child nine years ago, she began experiencing intrusive thoughts that made life debilitating at times. She would lie awake at night planning how she’d rescue her child from her car if she suddenly drove off the road. She was scared to do dishes in case she dropped a sharp u...
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The Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre is offering the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine to infants who do not have a family doctor. NP and RNAO member Erin Fleischer, who works in the clinic, says RSV can make children extremely sick.

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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...