This event will allow participants to understand the experience of a small rural hospital and pre-designate Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO). The BPSO program is a longstanding knowledge translation strategy that allows organizations to partner with the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario to optimize health outcomes. This organization, on the back foot from the pandemic and health human resource crisis, will be sharing how it revitalized its BPSO change initiative with customized support from the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.

RNAO President Dr. Claudette Holloway and CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun released Nursing Career Pathways report during a media conference moderated by Morgan Hoffarth, immediate past president. The report illustrates the many education and career opportunities within the nursing profession, and outlines how nurses play a central role when it comes to the health of Ontarians. It details the barriers that stand in the way of a thriving profession and the opportunities to ensure the retention and recruitment of nurses with a set of wide-ranging recommendations.