Browsing Open Dissemination Materials - Groups and Individuals by Issue Date
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Assessment and management of stage I to IV pressure ulcers
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-03)The purpose of this guideline, Assessment and Management of Stage I to IV Pressure Ulcers (Revised), is to identify nursing care related to assessment, management of tissue load, ulcer care and the management of bacterial ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Care and maintenance to reduce vascular access complications
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2008)This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses in diverse practice settings, both institutional and community, who provide care to clients requiring vascular access. This guideline incorporates best ... -
Assessment and device selection for vascular access
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2008)This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses providing care to clients requiring infusion therapy in diverse practice settings, both institutional and community. This guideline incorporates best practices ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Lessons in Leadership: Angela Barron McBride
(Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2008-05)Lessons in Leadership: The Betty Irene Moore Speaker Series embodies Betty Irene Moore's vision and hope for nurses to lead within their teams, organizations and communities, with the ultimate goal of improving the ... -
Oral health: Nursing assessment and interventions
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2008-12)This best practice guideline aims to assist nurses working in diverse practice settings provide evidence-based oral health care to adults with special needs. Within the scope of this guideline, those with special needs may ... -
Assessment and care of adults at risk for suicidal ideation and behaviour
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-01)This best practice guideline aims to assist nurses working in diverse practice settings provide evidence-based care to adults at risk for suicidal ideation and behaviours. Within the scope of this guideline, adults at risk ... -
Best practice guideline for the subcutaneous administration of insulin in adults with type 2 diabetes
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-06)The focus of this guideline is to support nurses, Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) in all practice settings, as they care for clients (18 years and older) with type 2 diabetes requiring ... -
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 ... -
Nursing management of hypertension
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-07)This best practice guideline focuses on assisting nurses working in diverse practice settings in the management of hypertension. This work is being conducted to support the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario’s ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Culturally competent care at the end of life- A Hindu perspective
(St Christopher Hospice, London, UK, 2010)Knowledge of particular cultural requirements is especially important in times of transition such as at the end of life, where issues of death and dying require great sensitivity to cultural and religious differences. ... -
Nursing care of dyspnea: The 6th vital sign in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2010-02)This guideline, Nursing Care of Dyspnea: The 6th Vital Sign in Individuals with COPD, will address the nursing assessment and management of stable, unstable and acute dyspnea associated with COPD. The guideline focuses its ...
