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Long-Term Care Toolkit

Welcome  to the Long-Term Care Best Practices Toolkit. RNAO is delighted to provide this key resource to you, developed by the Long-Term Care Best Practices Program. We invite you to explore the resources and share the toolkit with colleagues in your organization and others in the long-term care sector.

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Welcome to the Long-Term Care Toolkit

The LTC Toolkit is designed to offer point-of-care staff, nurses, educators and leaders access to the best available evidence-based resources and tools. It supports the use of best practice guidelines (BPG), program development, implementation and evaluation to enhance the quality of resident care and create a healthy work environment (HWE). It is intended to promote the integration of BPGs with relevant provincial legislation, performance improvement and other health-care initiatives.

The resources and tools in the LTC Toolkit were obtained from regulatory, legislative and professional sources including RNAO BPGs, College of Nurses of Ontario practice standards and guidelines, relevant Ontario legislation and resources from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and other leading provincial and national organizations.

RNAO coaches can help

Through collaborations with LTC homes, our team of coaches work towards improving resident care and promoting positive workplaces by implementing RNAO’s clinical and healthy work environment best practice guidelines.

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The following attributes guide the choice of resources and tools included. The resource:

  • reflects applicable legislative and regulatory requirements, and/or
  • is included in the RNAO BPG and is applicable to LTC in Ontario, and/or 
  • is evidence-based and has been tested for reliability and validity, and/or
  • is consistent with evidence-based practice recommendations and from a reputable organization with direct applicability to LTC.

All resources and tools included in the toolkit are web-based and available at no cost or minimal cost.

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Healthy work environment

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Gap (opportunity) analysis

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