Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge : Best Practices for Guideline Development, Implementation Science, and Evaluation

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 readers:

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.

Doris Grinspun, PhD, MSN, BScN, RN, LLD(hon), Dr(hc), O.ONT, is the CEO of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO). Grinspun is the founder and visionary of RNAO s internationally renowned Best Practice Guidelines Program and a leading figure in health and nursing policy. Recognized with numerous awards and investitures for her lifelong work as a bold and compelling leader, expertise in evidence-based practice and powerful voice for social justice and universal access, Grinspun is also an Adjunct Professor at various universities.

Irmajean Bajnok, PhD, MScN, BScN, RN, is the former Director of RNAO s International Affairs and Best Practice Guidelines Centre (IABPG). In this capacity, she led the development, dissemination, implementation support activities, and evaluation of the RNAO Best Practice Guidelines (BPGs) Program in clinical and healthy work environment areas. Bajnok is recognized as a leader in implementation science and has developed effective programs supporting knowledge translation locally, nationally, and globally. She is an Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa.