Browsing by Funders "Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care"
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Establishing therapeutic relationships
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2006-03)This nursing best practice guideline will address the therapeutic relationship and its central importance to nursing practice. Effective nursing practice is dependent on an effective therapeutic relationship ... -
Facilitating client centred learning
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-09)The aim of this guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses and other health-care providers to facilitate client centred learning that promotes and enables ... -
Managing & mitigating conflict in health-care teams
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-09)This Best Practice Guideline (BPG) focuses on nurses, Health-care teams and processes that foster healthy work environments. The focus for the development of this guideline was managing and mitigating interpersonal conflict ... -
Ostomy care & management
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-08)This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses related to the assessment and management of people with colostomies, ileostomies and urostomies, including the ... -
Person- and family- centred care
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2015-05)This nursing Best Practice Guideline (BPG) is intended to replace the RNAO BPG Client Centred Care (2002) and its supplement (2006a). It is to be used by nurses and other members of the interprofessional health-care team ... -
Preventing and managing violence in the workplace
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-06)We have developed this best practice guideline to: - Define and describe violence in the workplace. - Identify strategies to plan, implement and evaluate outcomes related to recognizing and assessing the risk of violence ... -
Preventing and mitigating nurse fatigue in health care
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2011-08)This best practice guideline has been developed to identify and describe: - practices that result in preventing and mitigating fatigue for nurses and other health-care professionals - system resources that support practices ... -
Professionalism in nursing
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-03)This Best Practice Guideline (BPG) focuses on professionalism, which is essential for healthy work environments for nurses. A healthy work environment for nurses is a practice setting that maximizes the health and well ... -
Promoting asthma control in children
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2008)Best practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioners’ and clients’ decisions about appropriate health care (Field & Lohr, 1990). This best practice guideline focuses on ... -
Promoting safety: Alternative approaches to the use of restraints
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-02)This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) related to the care of individuals who are at risk for behaviours that may result in harm to self/others ... -
Reducing foot complications for people with diabetes
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007)The focus of this best practice guideline is to support nurses as they help people with diabetes reduce their risk of foot complications. Specifically, this guideline assists nurses who are not specialists in diabetes care ... -
Screening for delirium, dementia and depression in older adults
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2010-05)This guideline has been developed to improve the screening assessment of older adult clients for delirium, dementia and depression. This guideline does not include recommendations for the management of these conditions in ... -
Strategies to support self-management in chronic conditions: Collaboration with clients
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2010-09)The purpose of this guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses in self-management support. These recommendations identify strategies and interventions that ... -
Supporting and strengthening families through expected & unexpected life events
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2006-03)Focusing on the family is an integral component of nursing practice. The guideline development panel acknowledges that most nurses already have relevant knowledge and skills to care for families. However, this guideline ... -
Supporting clients on methadone maintenance treatment
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-07)This guideline will focus on recommendations for any youth, adult or older adult either already on MMT or those who are potential candidates for MMT. Particular attention will be paid to priority populations (for whom there ... -
Toolkit: Implementation of best practice guidelines (2nd ed.)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-09)Best practices are recommendations that may evolve based on ongoing key expert experience, judgment, perspective and continued research (Health Canada, 2008).They are also known as systematically developed statements of ... -
Working with families to promote safe sleep for infants 0-12 months of age
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2014-02)This guideline has been developed to address the question of how health-care providers can partner with families to promote safe sleep for infants 0-12 months of age to reduce known risk factors for injury and death. It ... -
Workplace health, safety and well-being of the nurse
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2008-02)This guideline addresses the many factors that contribute to nurses’ health, safety and well-being and makes specific recommendations that may influence the overall health and well-being of the individual nurse. This ...
