Research and education
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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: Dr. Doris Grinspun
Recently, I found myself reflecting on a conversation with a nursing student. She spoke with clarity and conviction about witnessing families navigating poverty, elders isolated from care, and communities facing environmental risks that rarely make headlines.
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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: Kimberley Kearsey
Gurjit Sangha began her career as a staff RN at Toronto's The Hospital for Sick Children (now SickKids). She reflects back to her younger self and recalls her desire to step outside of the clinical setting, admitting it was sometimes stressful and all-consuming at the bedside. That’s why her HUB Fellowship in 2006 could not have...
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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: 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: 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...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey, Madison Hietkamp
After 25 years of growth and expansion, RNAO’s Best Practice Guideline (BPG) Program has become an impressive social movement of science that stretches across health sectors and geographical borders. Health professionals, their patients and families, researchers and policymakers are working behind the scenes to support the ongoi...
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by: Alicia Saunders
RN Nikki Mann says co-authoring a peer-reviewed article about implementing RNAO’s pain management best practice guideline (BPG) was incredibly rewarding. The director of resident services and Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) lead at Toronto’s Villa Colombo long-term care home knows the impact BPGs are having on her ...