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In partnership with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), the Nursing Advantage Canada platform allows LTC providers to standardize care delivery with RNAO’s Clinical Pathways.

Improve Care Delivery

Enhance quality care outcomes by incorporating evidence into practice using RNAO’s evidence-based clinical pathways.

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Minimize Risk

Increase assessment quality and incorporates evidence-based practices, removing variability from the care delivery process.

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Improve Care Delivery

Support and empower nurses through standardized processes in a workflow-intuitive platform for the most frequent assessments.
Standardize documentation and assessments that promote resident-centred care with focuses on emotional needs and care preferences.
Stimulate critical thinking, build nursing skills, and improve workflows to guide the delivery of personalized care using RNAO’s Clinical Pathways.

Minimize Risk

Identify changes in the resident condition. Nurses are guided to observe and assess based on the resident’s current health status.
Minimize risk of hospital readmissions due to variability in care delivery.
Focus on deeper evaluations in problem areas and minimize documentation for body systems that are within normal limits.

Frequently Asked Questions

A recent partnership between RNAO and PointClickCare enhances long-term care (LTC) homes’ compliance with the requirements of the Fixing Long Term Care Homes Act 2021 to use evidence-based resources to support resident-centred care, a palliative approach to care and the four required clinical programs: falls, pain, continence, skin and wound.

Under the Act, LTC homes must comply with the requirements outlined for each required program with respect to policies and procedures, documentation, assessments, prevention or management strategies and outcome evaluation. The RNAO-PointClickCare partnership supports this process through the integration of Clinical Pathways, derived from RNAO’s Best Practice Guidelines within the PointClickCare software application (Nursing Advantage Canada). RNAO Clinical Pathways promote the use of standardized, evidence-based assessments and interventions and ensure comprehensive and timely documentation that automates data collection for outcome evaluation.

RNAO’s Clinical Pathways are digitized versions of their Best Practice Guidelines that have been contextualized for the long-term care (LTC) sector in partnership with PointClickCare.

Designed in collaboration with senior Ontario LTC nurses, RNAO Clinical Pathways support alignment with the Fixing Long-Term Care Act 2021 and incorporates efficiencies that streamline care planning and reduce the documentation burden for staff. By implementing these tools, LTC homes will ensure staff are providing high-quality, evidence-based care that will improve residents’ health outcomes.

RNAO Clinical Pathways also have performance indicators associated with them. These indicators will further support homes with the new requirements for their Quality Program as outlined in the Act. For more information, please see RNAO.ca/clinicalpathways

Nursing Advantage Canada is a standardized, evidence-based clinical content solution available to customers of PointClickCare on a subscription basis. It contains RNAO’s evidence-based Clinical Pathways, a standard care plan library, and standardized assessments, including clinical suggestions and structured progress notes.

RNAO’s Clinical Pathways are the evidence-based content embedded within the Nursing Advantage Canada platform. This content is presented to the staff as a series of questions that guide practice. As these questions are answered, additional questions and/or clinical suggestions may appear, depending on the responses. Clinical suggestions are actions, based on best practices, that a nurse should take in response to specific answers given regarding the resident’s symptoms, care history, or diagnoses. This helps staff to ensure appropriate follow-through.

For example, if a resident assessment indicates the resident exhibits behaviors often associated with dementia, the system will display Clinical Suggestions to begin a Dementia Observation System (DOS) tool. A Clinical Suggestion will appear to refer a resident to the Registered Dietitian if a resident is assessed with a history of constipation. It is this embedded Nursing Advantage functionality that supports and promotes evidence-based assessment and care planning.

Nursing Advantage Canada RNAO Clinical Pathways also offers integrated care planning and structured progress notes. For example, in the Admission Assessment Clinical Pathway, the nurse can update the care plan while completing the resident assessment. Once the assessment is signed, the resident-centered care plan and comprehensive structured progress note are immediately accessible to the care team.

As PointClickCare further expands Nursing Advantage Canada, additional analytics and insights into resident care needs will be available through interactive dashboards. Using standard data, RNAO Clinical Pathways supports PointClickCare’s ability to deliver this functionality.

A key priority of the Ontario government is continuing to advance the use of evidence-based resident assessment and resident-focused care. To support this objective, Clinical Support Tools (CSTs) have been included in the Ministry of Long-Term Care’s (MLTC) programming plan. Through support from the MLTC, the goal of the CST program is to provide homes with financial resources to acquire and implement technology to help drive standardization, quality improvement initiatives, access to data, and ultimately, ensure appropriate care is put in place to reduce avoidable hospitalizations.

Any long-term care home licensed by the Ministry of Long-Term Care in Ontario is eligible for the funding.

The details of the funding are to be shared with each home by the Ministry of Long-Term Care.

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