Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge

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.