Collaboration

The Development and Implementation of Interprofessional Practice Councils in the Hospital Setting. Embarking on the Journey - Experience and Lessons Learned - 2014

Collaborative Practice has been identified as playing an important role in improving patient outcomes, strengthening health care services and improving health workforce satisfaction. This pilot project explores one organization’s experience developing and implementing Interprofessional Practice Councils (IPPCs) as a means of enhancing the culture of collaboration and implementation of best practices for three programs in the organization.

RNAO: The Nursing and eHealth Project

The Registered Nurses´ Association of Ontario continues to be funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) and eHealth Ontario to implement the Nursing and eHealth Project.

The purpose of the initiative is to facilitate the nursing profession's involvement in the Ontario eHealth agenda and support nurses to take a leadership role in the adoption of communication and information systems in all health-care settings.

College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) - Nursing Links

Access to important Nursing / Healthcare links:

Ontario Government
Ontario Nursing Education
Nursing Associations and Interest Groups in Ontario
Other Regulatory Health Professionals in Ontario
Other Provincial/Territorial Associations - RN / RPN
Canadian Nursing Associations and Interest Groups
Other Nursing/Health Care Links in Canada
Other Nursing/Health Care Links Outside Canada

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.

RNAO BPG: Collaborative Practice Among Nursing Teams

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. This panel has explored the complexities of diverse compositions, contexts and structures of nursing teams in an ever changing, interdisciplinary environment.

RNAO BPG: Managing and Mitigating Conflict in Health Care Teams

This Best Practice Guideline focuses on nursing teams and processes that foster healthy work environments.

Introducing Interprofessional Education and Care Concepts in a Geriatric Multlevel Centre: Development and Introduction of a Toolkit for Staff and Students - 2014

A growing body of evidence indicates that interprofessional teamwork in healthcare can reduce clinical error, increase staff satisfaction, and improve patient outcomes and patient safety. Interprofessional care has been identified as part of a solution to help reduce wait times, improve access to healthcare professionals, and keep Ontarians healthy. The inclusion of interprofessional collaboration in the delivery of healthcare is not surprising.

Partnerships for Health System Improvement. Leadership and Health System Redesign. Cross Case Analysis - 2014

The purpose of the Leadership and Health System Redesign research study was to explore the leadership dynamics at play in Canadian health reform and to develop leadership capacity in the Canadian health system through applied research and knowledge mobilization.

The Way Forward National Framework: A Roadmap for the Integrated Palliative Approach to Care - 2014

SECOND DRAFT FOR STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK SPRING 2014

Imagine a new reality, where hospice palliative care is available to Canadians when and where they need it; where living well until death is the goal of care. Now, imagine a plan to get there. That's The Way Forward: an integrated palliative approach to care across settings.

What Are Ontarians Really Doing? A Provincial Report on Ontario Wellbeing - 2014

Society is a hugely complex, interconnected “system of systems” - of relationships, of policies, of services, of countless visible and invisible interactions, influences, and impacts. Improving wellbeing in one system will often have positive impacts on others and on the whole. A key goal of the (Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) is to identify and understand the connections between the eight domains - each of which represents a system - and the many factors that influence overall wellbeing.

Nurse Executive Leader Toolkit

Transforming nursing through knowledge