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Evidence Booster: Effective Prevention and Management of Pain

Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain can be acute or persistent (chronic) or both at the same time. Unrelieved or poorly managed pain is a burden on the person, the health-care system and society. Chronic pain costs the Canadian health-care system between $47 billion and $60 billion a year - more than HIV, cancer and heart disease combined.

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Evidence Booster: Evaluating the impact of the Person and Family-Centred Care best practice guideline

On April 1, 2018, Spectrum Health Care was selected by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) as a Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) pre-designate. Spectrum Health Care is a provider of home health care with three locations across Ontario and more than 200 nursing staff members.

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Evidence Booster: Fight to Prevent Influenza: A Person-and Family-Centred Approach

Highland Wood is a non-profit 30-bed long-term care home, and is attached to the Haliburton Highland Health Services in the Central East Local Health Integration Network.

Michelle Douglas, the director of care (DOC) reflected on influenza season as being a difficult time for both residents and families when visitors are limited during an outbreak.

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Evidence Booster: Identifying and addressing a barrier through implementation of rounding

Faith Manor is a 120-bed long-term care (LTC) home in the Central West region. As part of Holland Christian Homes, the home serves mainly the Christian community, and those primarily of Dutch heritage.

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Evidence Booster: Impact of best practice guideline implementation on managing delirium in older adults

The purpose of RNAO’s best practice guideline (BPG) Delirium, Dementia and Depression in Older Adults: Assessment and Care (SecondEdition,2016) is to enhance the quality of nursing practices pertaining to delirium, dementia, and depression in older adults, there by ultimately optimizing clinical outcomes through the use of evidence-based practices

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