The Best Practice Spotlight Organization® Model: An integrated guideline implementation methodology.

Sustained integration of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines into routine practice and education remains inconsistent across health systems. While implementation science offers robust theoretical explanations of determinants of success, published reports often under-specify how theory is ope...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Nursing Sciences Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 230 - 240
Autores principales: Grinspun, Doris, Chee, Janet, Pavez Hurtado, Tiare, Bonilla Marciales, Adriana Patricia, Tian, Runxi, Moreno-Casbas, M. Teresa
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. May2026
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          Grinspun, Doris
          Chee, Janet
          Pavez Hurtado, Tiare
          Bonilla Marciales, Adriana Patricia
          Tian, Runxi
          Moreno-Casbas, M. Teresa
        affil: Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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          Nursing Practice, Evidence-Based
          Models, Theoretical
          Practice Guidelines
          Implementation Science
          Conceptual Framework
          Clinical Governance
          Accountability
          Professional Knowledge
          Organizational Change
          Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
      ab: Sustained integration of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines into routine practice and education remains inconsistent across health systems. While implementation science offers robust theoretical explanations of determinants of success, published reports often under-specify how theory is operationalized through governance, knowledge mobilization, and measurement systems that support accountability and learning over time. This limits interpretability, replication, and cumulative learning across contexts. This paper presents the Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Model, an integrated guideline implementation methodology designed to address this gap. The model specifies a system-level implementation architecture that integrates four core elements: 1) action frameworks (Knowledge-to-Action and Social Movement Action), 2) governance and accountability, 3) knowledge mobilization, and 4) measurement and evaluation. Governance, knowledge mobilization, and measurement function as cross-cutting mechanisms across all phases to stabilize implementation effort, sustain engagement, and embed learning. The model is enacted through five iterative yet sequential phases: organizational readiness and preparation; planning and local adaptation; implementation and integration into practice; monitoring, evaluation, and outcomes; and sustainability and spread. Although the methodology originated within the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's (RNAO's) guideline implementation work, it is not dependent on RNAO-specific programs, tools, or data systems. Instead, the paper defines minimum functional requirements to support transferability across clinical, academic, and system contexts. The model is proportionate and adaptable across high- and low-resource environments, interprofessional settings, and digitally enabled systems. Grounded in over two decades of implementation experience and supported by a large body of multi-site and international evaluations, this paper focuses on specifying the methodological architecture that underpins sustained change. By making implementation logic explicit, the BPSO® Model offers a transferable and scalable approach to advancing evidence-based practice and supports more interpretable, cumulative learning across settings.
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