Best practice spotlight organization

The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario has selected Peel Long Term Care to use, test and evaluate its best practice guidelines.

Peel Long Term Care was one of 4 long-term care providers in Ontario selected to be the first to implement the guidelines as a designated best practice spotlight organization.

With support from the nurses’ association, expert mentorship and consultation on the Best Practice Guidelines and the intense work of nurses and interdisciplinary team members from various roles and departments, Peel Long Term Care has successfully implemented several Best Practice Guidelines across all 5 Long Term Care centres. Peel Long Term Care will continue to implement and spread Best Practice Guidelines in 2022, to ensure quality and safe resident-centred care for our residents.

Video: highlighting our journey.

The Best Practice Guidelines that Peel Long Term Care has implemented include:

Assessment and management of pain.
Prevention of falls and fall injuries in the older adult.
Person- and family-centred care.
Preventing and addressing abuse and neglect of older adults, 3rd Edition.
Intra-professional collaborative practice among nurses.
Risk assessment and prevention of pressure ulcers.
Management of pressure injuries for the interprofessional team.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been training Best Practice champions to work with our teams to implement quality improvement initiatives, that will continuously improve the lives of people living in our long term care homes.

2023 to 2024: we will work with our Social Work team to implement the Promoting 2SLGBTQI+ Health Equity Best Practice Guideline.
2023 to 2024: Practice Education in Nursing: Working with the nurses, this guideline provides evidence-based recommendations to promote and sustain nurses’ application and knowledge to practice in variety of clinical environments.
2022: we continue to implement the fourth edition of the Best Practice Guidelines called Preventing Falls and Reducing Injury from Falls, 4th Edition.
2021: Peel Long Term Care started to implement the revised Best Practice Guidelines called Preventing Falls and Reducing Injury from Falls, 4th Edition.

Peel Long Term Care homes will continue to sustain all previous Best Practice Guidelines and implement quality improvement and resident safety initiatives related to skin and wound care and falls prevention.

Learn more about the Best Practice Spotlight Program.