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The RNAO Open library houses a curated collection of publications showcasing the impact of RNAO's Best-Practice Guideline (BPG) program. Explore publications demonstrating the real-world impact of RNAO's BPG program and how Best-Practice Spotlight Organizations are leading evidence-based change throughout Canada and around the world.

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Featured collection:  International Journal of Nursing Sciences (IJNSS)

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2026
Detailing prevention recommendations from the RNAO best practice guideline - pressure injury management: risk assessment, prevention, and treatment, fourth edition
Publication: Canadian Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence
Authored by: Brenda Stade, Amy Burt, Nafsin Nizum, Lyndsay Howitt, Giulia Zucal, Corey Heerschap, Dimitri Beeckman
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.63354/cjwoc.v1i3.16185
URL: https://cjwoc.ca/index.php/cjwoc/article/view/16185
2026
Developing a Best Practice Guideline for Clinical Practice in a Digital Health Environment: Systematic Reviews Based on the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation Approach
Publication: JMIR Nursing
Authored by: Lauren Bailey, Lyndsay Howitt, Nafsin Nizum, Christine Buchanan, Maureen Charlebois, Jennifer Yoon
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.2196/74942
URL: https://nursing.jmir.org/2026/1/e74942
2026
Older Adults' Experience of Person- and Family-Centered Care During the Discharge Planning Phase From Hospital to Home
Publication: Home Healthcare Now
Authored by: Julie Schmidt, Irene Ngu, Kathy Alarcon, Alexa Hartley, Patrick Clifford, Celina Carter
Collections: BPSO Publications
DOI: 10.1097/NHH.0000000000001421
2026
Preventing falls and reducing injury from falls at a tertiary hospital in China: a best practice implementation project
Publication: JBI evidence implementation
Authored by: Zhenhui Tao, Dan Zhu, Bei Li, Lucylynn Lizarondo, Alexa McArthur, Jingwen Meng, Dong Pang, Jun Liu, Yue Zhao, Xiang Chen, Mengyun Yang, Chenchen Zhao, Mi Zhao, Qiaohong Wang, Ziye Huang, Meng Zhou, Rui Lian
Collections: BPSO Publications
DOI: 10.1097/XEB.0000000000000558
2025
Best Practice Guideline Development Methods: An Integrated Approach Based on the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's Methods
Authored by: Lyndsay Howitt, Amy Burt, Nafsin Nizum, Christine Buchanan, Michelle Rey, Doris Grinspun
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.1002/gin2.70052
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gin2.70052
2025
Facilitating and impediment factors in the application of the "Fall Prevention and Fall Injury Reduction" guideline
Publication: International Journal of Nursing
Authored by: Wang Lu, Vermilion cedar, Mao Pan, Bai Wenhui, Hitachi, Lu Junying
Collections: BPSO Publications
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn221370-20230711-00008
URL: https://rs.yiigle.com/cmaid/1529167
2025
Leading change: developing, transforming and applying best practice guidelines for local use
Publication: Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine and Technology Assessment
Authored by: Xue-jing Li, Run-xi Tian, Xin-juan Wu, Doris Grinspun, Ning Gao, Xiao-yan Zhang, Liu Han, Yu-fang Hao
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.26599/eCMTA.2025.9570008
URL: https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/eCMTA.2025.9570008
2025
Leading the Way: Advancing Patient Advocacy Through People-Centred Care
Publication: Healthcare Management Forum
Authored by: Giulia Zucal, Nicole Graham, Michael Creek, Kateryna Metersky, Deborah Flores, Gladys Hui, Nafsin Nizum, Michelle Rey, Doris Grinspun
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08404704251394564
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/08404704251394564
2025
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) Best Practice Guideline on Pain
Publication: Pain Management Nursing
Authored by: Courtney Braun, Lauren Bailey, Deborah Flores, Christine Buchanan, Nafsin Nizum
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2025.07.017
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1524904225002371
2025
The quality and applicability of clinical practice guidelines for falls prevention, assessment and management across the lifespan: A systematic review
Publication: International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
Authored by: Amber Harnett, Lyndsay Howitt, Vithusa Kumarasamy, Christine Buchanan, Amy Burt, Nafsin Nizum, Shanoja Naik
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2025.100442
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666142X2500147X
2025
The VHA Interprofessional Collaboration Competency Framework for Home Healthcare: Development and Implementation Requirements in Ontario, Canada
Publication: Home Health Care Management & Practice
Authored by: Matthew C. Wong, Jordan E. D’Souza, Sonia Nizzer, Trevor Heer, Glenda Providence, David Fry, Sandra Li-James, Banu Sundaralingam, Leonor De Biasio, Titus A. Chan, Philip Woode, Emily C. King
Collections: BPSO Publications
DOI: 10.1177/10848223251354881
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/10848223251354881
2024
[Impact of the implementation of the international best practice guidelines programme (BPSO®) on health outcomes in a public hospital]
Publication: Journal of Healthcare Quality Research
Authored by: A. B. Arredondo-Provecho, M. Martínez-Piédrola, D. Guadarrama-Ortega, A. M. Morales-Guijarro, V. Ruiz-Luján, M. Acevedo-García
Collections: BPSO Publications
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2024.06.006
2024
Adaptation and implementation of the RNAO woman abuse best practice guideline: a critical reflection
Publication: MedUNAB
Authored by: Wendy Foster, Susan Dyer, Nicola Williams, Anita Minkus, Jackie Wood
Collections: BPSO Publications, Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, 2nd Ed.
DOI: 10.29375/01237047.4652
URL: https://revistas.unab.edu.co/index.php/medunab/article/view/4652
2024
Building capacity to lead: Development implementation and evaluation of a leadership and management education program for nurse leader-managers
Publication: Journal of Nursing Education and Practice
Authored by: Sue Bookey-Bassett, Heather Thomson, Janet Chee, Irmajean Bajnok, Victoria Miscio, Kim Cook, Donna Leybourne, Shanoja Naik
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.5430/jnep.v15n3p44
URL: https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/jnep/article/view/26658
2024
Challenging barriers: registered nurses’ association of ontario (RNAO) clinical practice guidelines and organizational change
Publication: Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología
Authored by: Javier Rojas-Avila, Katiuska Lídice Reynaldos-Grandón
Collections: BPSO Publications, Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, 2nd Ed.
DOI: 10.56294/saludcyt2024769
URL: https://sct.ageditor.ar/index.php/sct/article/view/628
2024
Effectiveness of implementing a Best Practice Guideline recommendations to manage pain in oncological hospitalized patients
Publication: Enfermeria Clinica
Authored by: Ana-Isabel Alcañiz-Mesas, María-Victoria Ruiz-García, María-Pilar Córcoles-Jiménez, María-José Caballero-García, María Teresa González Álvarez
Collections: BPSO Publications, Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, 2nd Ed.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enfcle.2024.11.002
2024
Health Equity Consortium: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Black, Indigenous, and 2SLGBTQIA+ Nurses
Publication: Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
Authored by: Paul-André Gauthier, Shelley Evans, Victoria Guido, Angela Cooper Brathwaite, Dania Versailles, Daria Adèle Juüdi-Hope, Corsita Garraway, Tanya Costa, Grace Suva, Brenda Stade, Doris Grinspun
Collections: RNAO Publications, Chapter, Region, Interest Group or Task Force Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08445621241299999
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08445621241299999
2024
Navigation Support during Transitions in Care for Persons with Complex Care Needs: A Systematic Review
Publication: Healthcare
Authored by: Lyndsay Howitt, Greeshma Jacob, Giulia Zucal, Judy Smith, Rhonda Crocker Ellacott, Shirlee Sharkey
Collections: RNAO Publications
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12181814
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/12/18/1814
2024
Personalized Care Delivery: The Benefits of Incorporating Four Key Questions into Care Planning
Publication: Home Healthcare Now
Authored by: Laura Harris
Collections: BPSO Publications, Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, 2nd Ed.
DOI: 10.1097/NHH.0000000000001220
URL: https://journals.lww.com/homehealthcarenurseonline/citation/2024/01000/personalized_care_delivery__the_benefits_of.15.aspx
2024
Recursos proyecto OPTIM-PARK: Optimización de los recursos comunitarios y sistemas de apoyo para mejorar el proceso de convivencia con la enfermedad de parkinson: una intervención multisectorial
Authored by: María Víctoria Navarta-Sánchez, Ana María Palmar-Santos, Azucena Pedraz-Marcos, Elvira Casado-Ramirez, María Carmen Portillo, Laura Alicia Rubio Casado, Belén Pelaez Raposo, Susana Herrero Yusta, Natalia Martín Alonso, María Bernabéu Soriano, María Carmen Guijarro Guijarro, Borja Jesús Herraiz Ahijado, Encinas Dominguez, María Gutierrez García, Alicia Martín Lara, María Ángeles Gallego Rubio, Concepción Campos Pardos, Bárbara González Mancebo, Patricia Fernández del Álamo
Collections: BPSO Publications, Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, 2nd Ed.
URL: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/25806
2024
Reflections on the evaluation of the clinical practice guideline regarding pain management and patient satisfaction with total hip arthroplasty
Publication: MedUNAB
Authored by: Shaojuan Huo, Cun Zhao, Leilei An, Fan Liu, Zuoding Jiang, Yuan Zhengxi, Dou Xinman, Xiaoli Yin
Collections: BPSO Publications, Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, 2nd Ed.
DOI: 10.29375/01237047.4653
URL: https://revistas.unab.edu.co/index.php/medunab/article/view/4653