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Nursing Renewal Program won Baycrest Innovation Award
Nursing leaders from across Canada, the US and Britain are interested in applying a unique, made-at-Baycrest education program to raise the bar in nursing excellence at their organizations. In fact it is already being adapted for use in four general medicine units at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto.
The Renewal Program, which started in 2004 and continues is an intensive development program designed to help nursing staff upgrade their skills; improve communication and teamwork with colleagues, other professional staff, clients and families; and shift from a task-oriented practice to a client and family centred approach to care.
It was an opportunity for Baycrest nurses to relook at their values and return to the roots and passion of nursing. It was a means to improve the way Baycrest nurses provide care.
Renewal began as a nursing initiative, but it involves all departments at Baycrest.
"Baycrest Nursing Vice President, Joy Richards, and her team, and Baycrest as an organization, are courageous and innovative leaders in nursing and the work they are doing is critical to patient care and the development of nursing practice. The rest of the nursing world sees this as outstanding," says Mary Ferguson-Pare, vice-president of Professional Affairs and chief nurse executive at UHN, which employs 2,900 nurses.