Browsing by Item Type "Best Practice Guideline"
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Crisis intervention
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2006-03)This guideline describes best practice in crisis intervention. While its primary focus is on mental health crises, its application has relevance to all settings and populations who experience developmental, situational, ... -
Crisis intervention for adults using a trauma-informed approach: Initial four weeks of management (3rd ed.)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2017)The purpose of this best practice guideline is to focus on how nurses and the interprofessional team can provide effective trauma-informed crisis interventions (immediately and to up to four weeks post-crisis) in adults ... -
Decision support for adults living with chronic kidney disease
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-07)The purpose of this best practice guideline is: To help nurses recognize patients with CKD experiencing decisional conflict related to situations in which there is more than one option available for managing their ... -
Delirium, dementia, and depression in older adults: Assessment and care (2nd ed.)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2016)This best practice guideline (BPG) outlines recommendations for the assessment and care of delirium, dementia and depression in older adults. The focus is on the provision of effective, compassionate and dignified care, ... -
Developing and sustaining effective staffing and workload practices
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-12)The guideline was developed to identify and describe: - Staffing and workload practices that foster healthy work environments resulting in better outcomes for nurses. - System resources that support healthy staffing ... -
Developing and sustaining interprofessional healthcare: Optimizing patient, organizational, and system outcomes
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2013-12)This best practice guideline, Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patients/clients, organizational, and system outcomes is intended to foster healthy work environments. The focus in developing ... -
Developing and sustaining nursing leadership
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2013-07)This guideline is intended to assist nurses and others performing both formal and informal nursing leadership roles from the point-of-care to the board room, across a variety of practice domains and settings. It identifies ... -
Developing and sustaining safe, effective staffing and workload practices (2nd ed.)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2017)The purpose of this best practice guideline (BPG) is to inform staffing and workload recommendations that can be implemented to benefit patients, nurses and other health-care providers, and organizations, as well as research, ... -
Educator's resource: Integration of best practice guidelines
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2005-06)The Educator’s Resource: Integration of Best Practice Guidelines (Educator’s Resource) is part of the larger Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) Program initiated by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario ... -
Embracing cultural diversity in health care: Developing cultural competence
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-04)This guideline addresses:- Knowledge, competencies and behaviours that exist in culturally competent workplaces- Indicators and features of culturally competent practice settings- Organizational values, relationships, ... -
End of life care during the last days and hours
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2011-09)The purpose of this best practice guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses on best nursing practices for end-of-life care during the last days and ... -
Engaging clients who use substances
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2015-03)This Guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for nurses and other members of the interprofessional team across all care settings who are assessing and providing interventions to individuals who use substances and ... -
Enhancing healthy adolescent development
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2010-12)The nursing profession has long been considered a leader in the area of health promotion and disease prevention. The goal of this document is to assist nurses working with youth in a variety of practice settings, ... -
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 ... -
Guidelines for authorship attribution and citation in the dissemination of scholarly work
(2018-02-07)Confusion may arise when determining how to properly credit authorship of scholarly work when the work was conducted by multiple individuals. Unfortunately, there is no consensus among disciplines, journals, publication ... -
Implementing supervised injection services
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2018)The purpose of this best practice guideline (BPG) is to provide an overview of principles, resources, and structures for delivering evidence-based supervised injection services (SIS). This guideline is for nurs ... -
Integrating smoking cessation into daily nursing practice
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-03)This best practice guideline is intended to provide direction to nurses during daily practice in all care settings, both institutional and community. This guideline does not describe in-depth interventions for special ... -
Integrating tobacco interventions into daily practice (3rd ed.)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2017)The purpose of this best practice guideline (BPG) is to provide best practices for tobacco interventions for nurses and other health-care providers across all care settings, with evidence-based recommendations related to ... -
Interventions for postpartum depression
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2005-04)The focus of this guideline is on the confirmation, prevention, and treatment of mothers with depressive symptoms in the first postpartum year. This guideline will benefit community, family practice, and hospital-based ...
