Are you putting the best evidence into practice, program, and policy decisions?

The Toolkit: Implementation of Best Practice Guidelines, developed by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO), helps with the systematic and well-planned implementation of best practice guidelines based on known factors for success. The toolkit, now in its second edition, provides a step-by-step approach to introduce and apply best practice guidelines, and to ensure that those best practices are sustained.

What are best practice guidelines?

Best practice or clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances across the health care continuum (e.g. health promotion, screening, diagnosis) (The AGREE Research Trust).

How can the Toolkit: Implementation of Best Practice Guidelines help you?

The Toolkit: Implementation of Best Practice Guidelines provides resources, checklists, templates and case scenarios for implementation. Designed to accompany the best practice guidelines developed by RNAO, the Toolkit can also help health care professionals in various settings to maximize the potential of other best practice guidelines.

Some sections of the Toolkit include:  

• Identifying the problem, reviewing and selecting knowledge
• Adapting knowledge to local context
• Assessing facilitators and barriers to knowledge use
• Selecting, tailoring and implementing intervention and implementation strategies
• Monitoring knowledge use and evaluating outcomes
• Sustaining knowledge use

To see the summary statement of this tool developed by NCCMT, click here: http://www.nccmt.ca/registry/view/eng/163.html