In 2009, Cambridge Memorial Hospital was honoured to be designated as a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO). The aim of the BPSO initiative is to create working environments where the most current evidence is used in day-to-day practice by all nurses.

Cambridge Memorial Hospital has implemented numerous Best Practice Guidelines (BPGs) with specific outcome measures that improve the quality of the patient experience, ensure evidence based best practice and promote the health of individuals including healthy lifestyle choices in our discharge planning process.

To visit the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario website to learn more, click here.

Our commitment to best practice includes the following:

• Prevention of Falls and Fall Injuries in the Older Adult
1. Reduce your Risk for Falls
2. Falls Prevention
3. What to do if you have a Fall at Home

• Management and Assessment of Pain
1. Gaining Control of Your Pain
2. Pain Log
3. Pre and Post Surgery Pain Assessment video

• Screening for Delirium, Dementia and Depression in Older Adults

• Breast Feeding BPG for Nurses

• Risk Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers

• Care and Maintenance to Reduce Vascular Access Complications
1. You and Your IV

• Integrating Smoking Cessation into Daily Nursing Practice
1. Deciding to Quit Smoking
2. MOHLTC Smoke Free Ontario
3. Waterloo public health – smoking

• Nursing Care of Dyspnea: the 6th Vital Sign in Individuals with COPD
1. COPD helping you breathe easier

• Adult Asthma Care Guidelines for Nurses: Promoting Control of Asthma

• Promoting Asthma Control in Children

• Nursing Management of Hypertension
1. Hypertension Fact sheet
2. Patient Screening Tool – English
3. Patient Screening Tool – Portuguese
4. Shaking the Salt Habit
5. Get Your Blood Pressure Under Control
6. Canada Food Guide

• Subcutaneous Administration of Insulin in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
1. Diabetes and You

• Crisis Intervention

• Professionalism in Nursing