Fairmount Home holds RNAO BPSO pre-designation launch event
“It’s a great honour for us to be selected as a BPSO pre-designate,” says Rebecca McEwen, Attending Nurse Practitioner at Fairmount and the home’s BPSO lead. “The hard work and dedication that goes into achieving BPSO designation is an important example of how the people who work with Fairmount consistently exceed the professional standards for resident care and administration in long-term care.”
BPSO is an internationally respected knowledge strategy to optimize health outcomes at the individual, organizational, and health system levels. The BPSO program gives Fairmount the opportunity to formally partner with the RNAO to achieve prestigious BPSO designation. It will take at least three years of rigorous work for Fairmount nursing professionals to meet the specific deliverables required to earn full BPSO designation.
Among those deliverables for Fairmount are fulfilling best-practice requirements in three main areas: Person and Family Centred Care, Transitions in Care and Services, and Assessment and Management of Pressure Injuries for the Interprofessional Team.
The BPSO program is proven to encourage evidence-based culture, improve resident experience, enrich staff satisfaction, and lower costs. The overarching aim of the partnership between Fairmount Home and RNAO is to support evidence-based health interventions to better support Fairmount residents and families.
The objectives of the BPSO designation program are:
- Establish dynamic, long-term partnerships that focus on making an impact on resident care through supporting evidence-based practice.
- Demonstrate creative strategies for successfully implementing Best Practice Guidelines (BPGs) at Fairmount.
- Establish and use effective approaches to evaluate implementation activities through structure, process, and outcome indicators.
- Identify effective strategies for home-wide dissemination of BPG implementation and outcomes.
- Support achievement of the Quadruple Aim and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.