Research and education

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...

RNAO stands with the Indigenous peoples of this land who are mourning lives lost. We recognize and share the enormous and enduring pain caused by the residential school system. In our ongoing commitment to reconciliation, the association is building on its partnerships with Indigenous communities to address the impacts of coloni...

Cora Constantinescu, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Alberta Health Services, was keynote speaker at RNAO’s Feb. 8 COVID-19 webinar, the 20th in its ongoing series. As millions of people are getting immunized across the country and around the world, a pressing question has emerged:...

As an NP, Corsita Garraway has faced many obstacles throughout her nursing career in Canada. In 1995, while studying in the RPN-to-RN bridging program at Centennial College, she was one of the few Black nursing students in her program of 40 students. She worked hard to earn high grades and watched other Black students drop out d...

Tracie Risling and Richard Booth, PhD-prepared associate professors of nursing in Saskatchewan and London, Ontario, respectively, have both done substantive research on different types of health technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The two RN experts have spent the last year co...

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...

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...

Public health RNs raise awareness among youth that vaping is more dangerous than they think.

For many nursing students, academic and clinical instructors play a huge role in their journey to becoming an RN and RNAO member. Academic instructors guide students in the classroom, teaching them to be curious and passionate. Elizabeth Edwards helped Mahoganie Hines cultivate her passion for advocacy as she pursued her goal to...