Nurses, other health-care professionals and administrators who lead and facilitate practice changes will find this document invaluable for developing policies, procedures, protocols, educational programs and assessments, interventions and documentation tools. Nurses in direct care will benefit from reviewing the recommendations and the evidence that supports them.
But we particularly recommend practice settings adapt these guidelines in formats that are user-friendly for daily use; we include some suggested formats for tailoring the guideline to your needs.If your organization is adopting the guideline, we recommend you follow these steps:
a)Assess your nursing and health-care practices using the guideline’s recommendations.
b)Identify which recommendations will address needs or gaps in services.
c)Develop a plan for implementing the recommendations are available on our website, www.RNAO.ca
