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Other Titles
Chapter 6: Best Practice Spotlight Organization: Implementation Science at its Best
Abstract
This item record pertains to an excerpt from Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.
About this 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 healthcare. Authors Doris Grinspun and Irmajean Bajnok designed this text to be a practical, go-to book for healthcare 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 the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) 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
- 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 largescale 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.
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Sigma Membership
Lambda Pi at-Large
Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9781945157639
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Expert Opinion (nationally/internationally recognized)
Research Approach
N/A
Keywords:
Scaling Up, Out, and Deep, Nursing Order Sets, Collective Identity, Social Movements, Best Practice Guidelines, Evidence-Based Practice, Best Practice Spotlight Organizations, Purposeful Evaluation
Recommended Citation
Grinspun, Doris and Bajnok, Irmajean, "[Excerpt from] Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge: Best Practice for Guideline Development Implementation Science, and Evaluation" (2018). Sigma Publications: Book Excerpts. 36.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/book_excerpts/36
Publisher
Sigma Theta Tau International
Version
Publisher's Version
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Copyright © 2025 by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Any trademarks, service marks, design rights, or similar rights that are mentioned, used, or cited in this book are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for a similar or any other purpose.
Review Type
None: Professionally Edited Material
Acquisition
Publisher-submission
Date of Issue
2018
Full Text of Presentation
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Description
This item record contains the following file attachments: Chapter 6 and a new Preface,The Best Practices Spotlight Organization (BPSO) Designation is internationally renowned and has been a resounding success in demonstrating the uptake and sustained use of Best Practice Guidelines. The BPSO Designation's strategic approach has served to trigger the development of evidence-based cultures, improve patient care, and enrich the professional practice of nurses and other healthcare providers. At the time of writing, there were 7 BPSO Hosts composed of 125 BPSOs Direct that represent over 550 healthcare organizations and academic institutions in 12 countries and 5 continents.