About the Book
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 you:
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
Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge enables readers to learn from the evolution of a successful large-scale global program focused on advancing evidence to practice, evidence to work environments, and evidence to policy to bring about deep organizational and health system change.
About the Author :
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 (IABPG) Centre. In this capacity, she led the development, dissemination, implementation support activities, and evaluation of the RNAO Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) 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.
Review :
"A timely publication for all healthcare professionals that will advance the movement from tradition to evidence-based practice, education, and policy. It is a welcome resource for nursing and healthcare faculty and students for teaching and understanding theory, application, and lived experiences related to
guideline development, implementation science, and evaluation. The book achieves the goals of education, inspiration, and motivation for evidence-based healthcare in a global context."
-Cynthia Baker, PhD, RN
Executive Director
Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
"Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge offers a pragmatic and 'can-do' approach to spreading knowledge that combines the discipline of evidence, the rigor of implementation science, the contagion of social movement thinking, and the energy of shared purpose. Anyone with a passion for knowledge management should read this book, way beyond the field of nursing."
-Helen Bevan
Chief Transformation Officer
National Health Service (NHS), Horizons, England
"Ensuring that nursing care is informed by the best evidence and addressing the barriers and facilitators
to implementation of best practice are critical in optimizing health outcomes. Transforming Nursing
Through Knowledge provides a road map for knowledge utilization and will be a useful resource for
both novice and expert practitioners."
-Patricia M. Davidson, PhD, RN
Dean and Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, USA
"Grinspun and Bajnok have done a brilliant job mapping how to create evidence-based cultures. The
book is a masterpiece for health systems anywhere in the world--from policymakers to executives to
clinicians. It provides rigorous methodology for all components of clinical Best Practice Guidelines
development, implementation, and evaluation. Equally important, it highlights how professional
nursing associations and unions positively partner to achieve better health for all."
-Vickie Kaminski, MBA, RN
Chief Executive, SA Health, South Australia
"This publication is a testimony to the monumental contribution RNAO has made over the past decade
to develop and implement best practice guidelines. It is an impressive text that shares the story across the full spectrum--from conception to operationalization in various contexts around the world. Clinicians,
educators, administrators, students, and policymakers will find this user-friendly text a go-to resource in
bridging the gap between evidence and practice and evidence and policy--and how to make both a reality. Transforming Nursing Through Knowledge will inspire nursing and other healthcare professionals
to be change agents that shape a future of enhanced care and outcomes for the public we serve."
-Hester C. Klopper, PhD, MBA, HonsDNurse, FANSA, FAAN, ASSAF
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Strategy and Internationalisation
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
"I am so impressed by such a great publication on the power of nursing knowledge. This book generously shares with us the essence of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario Best Practice Guidelines Program. Filled with robust theoretical underpinnings applied to vivid examples and real cases in the field, this book will guide and direct nurses and other healthcare professionals eager to improve health outcomes to conduct implementation research for more effective nursing and public health."
-Hongcai Shang, MD, PhD
Director, Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
