Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, one of 21 Best Practice Spotlight Organizations (BPSO) in Ontario, assists others after being through the experience ourselves. In our three years as a Registered Nurses Association of Ontario BPSO candidate and one year as a BPSO designate, CKHA has learned a great deal about moving research and best practice guidelines into practice. We have agreed to act as mentors to two other organizations (Kitchener Grand River Hospital and Guelph General Hospital) in their journeys as BPSO candidates.
On May 26th, Denise Dodman of the Professional Practice Team and co-lead for CKHA’s BPSO activities traveled to Grand River hospital and met with the team of best practice champions. The group spent time exploring strategies for champions and how to use knowledge translation theory to explore their own units and clinical situations. At CKHA, we are committed to sharing the lessons we have learned about implementing best practice and best practice guidelines with other organizations. We are also learning lessons from them – a mutually beneficial relationship, sharing in the Spotlight.
