Practice

Ontario Public Health Association

The Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) is a not-for-profit organization that provides a strong, unified, independent voice for all citizens, public-health professionals and volunteers committed to improving the health of Ontarians. OPHA has a very active Board of Directors that to accomplish its governance responsibilities and fulfill its strategic plan.

Ontario Long Term Care Association (OLTCA)

Welcome to the Ontario Long Term Care Association (OLTCA). OLTCA is Canada’s largest long term care association and represents a full spectrum of charitable, not-for-profit, private and municipal long term care operators. The Association’s 440 member homes are funded and regulated by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. OLTCA members provide health care and a home to almost 70,000 seniors annually.

Ontario Home Care Association

The Ontario Home Care Association is an organization of home health and social care service providers and serves as the voice of home care in Ontario. OHCA members deliver nursing care, home support services, personal care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, social work, dietetics, speech language therapy and medical equipment in the home. Ontario Home Care Association members are contracted by all three levels of government, Community Care Access Centres, insurance companies, institutions, corporations and private individuals.

RNAO BPG: Healthy Work Place Environment

This guideline is intended to support you in your journeys towards excellence in communication, leadership skills, and knowledge of teamwork to build a better tomorrow for patients/clients and nurses, present and future...

Progress Report 2014: Health Care

The Ontario government has made significant progress in health care since 2003, strengthening and transforming key services. Ontario’s 2014 health care progress report highlights achievements that are helping people across the province

RNAO: Nurse Practitioner (NP) Utilization Toolkit

This unique toolkit, written from the nursing leadership perspective, provides the essential information to inform NP utilization in hospitals. Key legislative and regulatory documents, which enable NPs to admit, treat, transfer and discharge hospital inpatients are provided alongside various tools for NP implementation and evaluation.

RNAO: Long-Term Care Toolkit

In 2005, the Long-Term Care Best Practice Coordinator role was introduced into the long-term care sector as a three-year pilot initiative funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care through the Nursing Secretariat. The goal of the 'Long-Term Care Best Practices Initiative' is to support long-term care homes in adopting evidence-based practices that will support systematic and consistent approaches to providing quality care for residents.

Workplace Leadership. A Review of Prior Research - 2014

Society is also changing rapidly. The working population is ageing, and the values and expectations of consumers, employees, and

communities are shifting. The general public places greater emphasis on holding business to account for the consequences that their production and market choices have for the community and the environment.

RNAO: Primary Care Toolkit

Purpose: to assist employers and primary health-care teams in developing structures and processes that allow primary care registered nurses (RN) and registered practical nurses (RPN) to increase their role responsibilities so that they reect their full scope of practice, as outlined in the Primary Solutions for Primary Care report.
Intended goal: to increase access to primary care services

Improvement Collaboratives in Health Care - 2014

Quality improvement collaboratives involve groups of professionals coming together, either from within an organisation or across multiple organisations, to learn from and motivate each other to improve the quality of health services. Collaboratives often use a structured approach, such as setting targets and undertaking rapid cycles of change. This evidence scan explores research about whether collaboratives help to improve quality in health care and the factors that may be key to their success.

Nurse Executive Leader Toolkit

Transforming nursing through knowledge