title: Nursing best practice guidelines: the RNAO (Registered Nurses Association of Ontario) project.
abstract: Best practice guidelines, although a recent phenomenon, have become a global movement in nursing. Scholars, practitioners, healthcare organizations, governments and the nursing associations have a unique opportunity to enhance quality and demonstrate joint accountability to patients, the healthcare system and the public as a whole. This article offers insight into the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Nursing Best Practice Guidelines Project. Funded as a multi-year project by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in 1999, the RNAO project is leading nursing's best practice guideline movement in Canada and reaching others abroad.
authors.affiliation: Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grinspun
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Virani
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bajnok
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D002170:Canada; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D016365:Liability, Legal; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012956:Societies, Nursing