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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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2025
A comparative study of antimicrobial prescribing practices for common infectious syndromes among physicians and nurse practitioners in a safety-net hospital
Publication: Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology: ASHE
Authored by: Aakash Balaji, Jessica Hua, Ben Pomerantz, Alfredo J. Mena Lora
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1017/ash.2025.10058
2025
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve First-Case On-Time Starts for Elective Surgeries
Publication: Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice
Authored by: Elvira L. Nguelewou, Robin M. Lawson
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1891/JDNP-2024-0008
2025
A quality improvement project targeting postoperative hospital revisit rates after pediatric appendicitis
Publication: Canadian Journal of Surgery
Authored by: Emily Walser, Jacob Davidson, Robin Wigen, Claire A. Wilson, Natashia M. Seemann, Jennifer Y. Lam
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.009024
URL: http://www.canjsurg.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cjs.009024
2025
Advance Directives for Adolescents and Young Adults Living With Neuromuscular Disease: A Nurse Practitioner-Driven Intervention
Publication: Journal of hospice and palliative nursing: JHPN: the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Authored by: Vanessa Battista, Deborah J. Baker, Tara Trimarchi, Sarah Stoney, Rita D'Aoust
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000001086
2025
An innovative nurse practitioner-led service for children from families living in housing instability
Publication: Primary Health Care Research & Development
Authored by: Alicia Bell, Yvonne K. Parry, Matthew Ankers, Nina Sivertsen, Eileen Willis, Sally Kendall, Huahua Yin
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423625000118
2025
Assessing perceptions of patient-centered care during telehealth visits provided via rural county Extension offices: an implementation pilot study
Publication: mHealth
Authored by: Melissa J. Vilaro, Valeria Westring, Anna Hooks, Catucha Morand, Tyler Jordan-Black, William T. Donahoo, Ramzi G. Salloum, Maryam Sattari, Lisa Scarton, Thomas J. George, Halie Corbitt, Imaan Bashir, LaToya J. O’Neal
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.21037/mhealth-24-47
URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11811651/
2025
Case management of a patient with botulism by an intensive care nurse practitioner team
Publication: Australian Critical Care: Official Journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
Authored by: Katie Kelleway, Brett Mace, Jessica Butler, Sarah Webb, Kelly Harbour, Rosalind Elliott
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2025.101291
2025
CoCare-CI: A Clinical Innovation to Address Behavioral Symptoms in Hospitalized Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment
Publication: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Authored by: David H. Lynch, Elizabeth R. Houston, Anna L. Andrews, Kimberly J. Mournighan, Willow F. Butler, John A. Batsis, Joshua D. Niznik, Jennifer Leeman, Laura C. Hanson
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19479
2025
Compliance and Performance of Hand Hygiene in Dutch General Practice Offices Using Electronic Dispensers
Publication: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Authored by: Nataliya Hilt, Matthijs S. Berends, Mariëtte Lokate, Bert Tent, Andreas Voss
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1177/21501319251334218
2025
Do Nurse Practitioners Deliver? A Retrospective Self-audit Comparing Nurse Practitioner Care for People With HIV in Australia to Screening and Monitoring Guidelines
Publication: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Authored by: Shannon Woodward, Donna Tilley, Adam Spinks, El Thompson, Danielle Collins
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000523
URL: https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000523
2025
Effect of interdisciplinary obesity care on metabolic markers and body weight in people with type 2 diabetes in a rural setting: A randomised controlled trial
Publication: Clinical Obesity
Authored by: Giuliana O. Murfet, Iain K. Robertson, Sharon P. Luccisano, Michelle L. Kilpatrick
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1111/cob.12715
URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11907095/
2025
Effectiveness of a nurse practitioner-led collaborative health care model on self-care, functional status, rehospitalization and medical costs in heart failure patients: A randomized controlled trial
Publication: International Journal of Nursing Studies
Authored by: Chih-Wen Chen, Tsae-Jyy Wang, Chieh-Yu Liu, Yeu-Hui Chuang, Ching-Chuan Su, Shu-Fang Vivienne Wu
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2024.104980
URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0020748924002931
2025
Facilitating Care for Individuals With Complex Medical and Social Needs Through the Nurse Practitioner‐Dentist Integrated Practice Model
Publication: Special Care in Dentistry
Authored by: Elizabeth Alpert, Tara Zhou, Claudia C. Guillen, Michael Friedman, Jane Barrow
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1111/scd.70059
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/scd.70059
2025
Impact of Nurse Practitioners on Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge on Patients with Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Publication: The Heart Surgery Forum
Authored by: Amale Ghandour, Hugo Langlois, Geneviève Lavigne, François-Adrien Duvauchelle, Luc-Étienne Boudrias, Amanda Normand, Ranuka Sivanathan, Millie Firmin, Alain Biron, Dominique Shum-Tim
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.59958/hsf.8109
URL: https://journal.hsforum.com/index.php/HSF/article/view/8109
2025
Implementation and evaluation of a novel community-based urban mobile health clinic in Toronto, Ontario
Publication: Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique
Authored by: Meghan O’Neill, Robert J. Redelmeier, Camilla Michalski, Raymond Macaraeg, Maureen Gans, Alice Schoffel, Lori M. Diemert, Luwam Ogbaselassie, Laura C. Rosella, Andrew Boozary
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00962-x
URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12381333/
2025
Improving Blood Pressure in High-Risk Patients With CKD Using an Interdisciplinary Remote Hypertension Program
Publication: Kidney International Reports
Authored by: Molly C. Fisher, Sharon Rikin, Sonali Gupta, Jeremy Awori, Michel Terzibachi, Gracy Sebastian, Allison Stark, Tanya S. Johns
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2025.01.028
URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12034870/
2025
Improving Hospital Resource Utilization and Maintaining Quality of Care through a Nurse Practitioner-Led Pediatric Head Injury Outpatient Clinic
Publication: Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Authored by: Emma K. Hartman, Stefanie R. Hartman, Alfred P. See
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2025.06.013
URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0891524525001920
2025
Improving Hospital Throughput With a Hospitalist Discharge Nurse Practitioner
Publication: The Journal of Nursing Administration
Authored by: Irene Davis, Eskedar Gizaw, Lianna Ansryan
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000001567
2025
Increasing Goals of Care Review and Fiscal Implications With an Embedded Palliative Care Specialist in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project at a Community-Based Hospital
Publication: Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing
Authored by: Rachel A. Butler, Joy Elwell, Emilee Binette, Mary Jane Bowles
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000001135
URL: https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/NJH.0000000000001135
2025
Integrated access to cancer screening: expanding access for cervical and colorectal cancer screening in rural and remote Northern Alberta, Canada using a mobile service to bring cancer screening closer to home
Publication: BMC health services research
Authored by: Jessica Wiseman, Kara Patterson, Gordon Kliewer, Mary Mueller, Seema Mutti-Packer, James Newsome, Stacy Lockerbie, Joan Hauber, Monica Schwann, Huiming Yang
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-12392-7
2025
Integrating Palliative Care Consultation Into Inpatient Liver Transplant Evaluations: A Quality Improvement Study
Publication: Journal of hospice and palliative nursing: JHPN: the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Authored by: Alissa A. Ulanday, Lindsay B. Waters, Melanie Donovan, Jennifer Do, Fady M. Kaldas
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000001118
2025
Meeting the needs of rural populations through a nurse practitioner-led integrated care program for student health
Publication: Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Authored by: Margaret R. Emerson, Melissa Langenberg, Tyler S. Szymanski, Wendy Schardt, Anne Lano, Kiphany Hof
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/JXX.0000000000001154
2025
Nurse practitioner applies extracorporeal shock wave therapy for patients with frozen shoulder: A randomized controlled trial
Publication: Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Authored by: Sheng-Shiung Huang, Shih-Fang Chen, Shiow-Luan Tsay, Wei-Tso Chia, Tsui-Wei Chien
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1097/JXX.0000000000001129
2025
Nurse Practitioner-Sensitive Outcome Measures in Older Person Care: A Scoping Review
Publication: Journal of Advanced Nursing
Authored by: Michael Connolly, Anita Duffy, Fiona Lawler, Eileen Furlong, Sara Cosgrave, Christine Dalton, Mary Mullen, Lisa Murphy, Mary Ryder
Collections: NP Effectiveness 2025
DOI: 10.1111/jan.16972
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jan.16972