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The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses, nurse practitioners and nursing students in Ontario, Canada. Funded by the government of Ontario, RNAO launched its Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) program in 1999. The program’s three main pillars are guideline development, active support for implementation, and access to NQuIRE® – the international data system that measures the impact of RNAO’s BPGs on patients’ health and clinical outcomes and on health organizations' and health system performance.
The Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO) program, launched in 2003, is a organizational-level strategy that applies implementation science methodology and social movement action to create evidence-based cultures in academic and service organizations worldwide (Grinspun & Bajnok, 2018).
- Learn more about the BPSO program
- Learn more about the RNAO Best Practice Champions Network®
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In spring 2021, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) - described below - and the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement came together and became Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC), an independent not-for-profit charity funded by Health Canada. HEC is an organization with a relentless focus on improving healthcare, with – and for – everyone in Canada. The newly amalgamated organization has a greater capacity to support partners to turn proven innovations into widespread and lasting improvements in patient safety and all the dimensions of healthcare excellence. By believing in the power of people and evidence, HEC shows that connecting these two can help achieve the best health care in the world.
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Before amalgamating with the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement to become Health Excellence Canada, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) worked with governments, health organizations, leaders, health providers, patients and families to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality. They had extensive interprofessional networks across all health sectors and expertise in applying evidence-based approaches to foster improvements in teamwork, communication, and patient safety culture.
CPSI worked with subject matter experts across the country to bring together quality improvement and knowledge translation science and demonstrate, through quality and safety Initiatives, the impact of utilizing evidence-based practice to guide improvement efforts.
History of the collaboration between RNAO and CPSI
For a decade, RNAO and CPSI collaborated on national knowledge translation and implementation science initiatives. The partnership began in 2008 with a focus on preventing falls and injury from falls within all health-care sectors in Canada. In 2018, the two organizations decided to continue the partnership to focus on developing a second edition of RNAO’s 2021 Toolkit: Implementation of Best Practice Guidelines. The new edition of the toolkit integrated knowledge translation as implementation science and social movement thinking. And it paved the way for the Leading Change Toolkit™ launched in fall 2021.
Partnering for the Leading Change Toolkit™
This collaborative project, the Leading Change Toolkit™ is an opportunity to leverage the expertise of each organization and share knowledge and resources related to education and innovation in the field of knowledge translation, implementation science, and social movement thinking. The Leading Change Toolkit™ supports an ongoing commitment to clinical excellence and interprofessional care - it is a key resource for health-care teams.
