Dear Nursing Students of Ontario,
Are you interested in learning more about best practice guideline development and evidence-based practice? Do you have experience working with persons experiencing pain in your clinical placement, or are you interested in understanding how you can optimize pain assessment and management in your clinical practice?
The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is looking to recruit a nursing student to join the expert panel for the Best Practice Guideline (BPG): Assessment and Management of Pain, Fourth Edition (working title). The purpose of this BPG is to provide evidence-based recommendations for nurses and other members of the interprofessional team who are assessing and managing people with the presence, or risk of, any type of pain. Broadly, this guideline will cover recommendations that can apply to all domains of nursing practice, including clinical, administration, education, research, and policy, to assist nurses to become more comfortable, confident and competent when caring for persons with the presence, or risk of, any type of pain.
The expert panel plays a key role in helping RNAO develop rigorous and robust BPGs that support evidence-based practice and the provision of high-quality care. If selected to be part of the expert panel, you will work alongside nurses, members of the interprofessional team and persons with lived experience to shape the purpose, scope and content of the BPG. The expert panel will carry out this work over the estimated timeframe of approximately 18 months.
If this opportunity is of interest to you, we invite you submit an application online by October 15, 2021. Additional details regarding the role and responsibilities of the expert panel, and steps to submitting an application can be found here: https://myRNAO.ca/survey/expert-panel
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the lead Guideline Development Methodologist for this BPG, Christine Buchanan at cbuchanan@rnao.ca.
Thank you in advance for considering this opportunity. Your input on this topic would be incredibly valuable and we look forward to reviewing applications.
Sincerely,
The RNAO BPG team