RNAO's landmark book is now available for free download
The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) published this foundational book in 2018 through Sigma Theta Tau International Publishers. The rights to the book have now been reverted to RNAO and we are making it available for free download.
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About the book
From conceptual and programmatic underpinnings to lived experiences of faculty, students, nurse executives and bedside nurses, Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge leaves no stone unturned, allowing readers to gain a full understanding of a nurse’s role in developing, using and evaluating the impact of knowledge tools in health care. Authors Doris Grinspun and Irmajean Bajnok designed this text to be a practical, go-to book for health-care organizations, nurse executives, and professionals learning to create world-class evidence-based cultures—how to get started, move forward and achieve results. This book will help you:
- Understand RNAOs Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) Program and its galvanizing power as a global movement that builds collective identity.
- Discover the latest in guideline development, implementation science, and evaluation at scale.
- Tackle healthy work environment challenges using BPGs to influence outcomes for health professionals, patients, organizations, and health systems.
- Use implementation science and social movement strategies to successfully implement BPGs in academic and service settings.
- Recognize that transferring and sustaining evidence uptake require active and multilevel interventions· Learn to integrate technology, including nursing order sets, to support evidence-based clinical decision-making.
- Propel large-scale organizational and health system change using diffusion theory and social movement thinking.
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·Be inspired by nursing associations taking political leadership to secure the highest-quality health system for the public.
Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge enables readers to learn from the evolution of a successful large-scale global program focused on advancing evidence to practice, evidence to work environments, and evidence to policy to bring about deep organizational and health-system change.
