The following resource is designed to assist Long-Term Care (LTC) homes with the implementation of skin and wound care using the following Best Practice Guidelines:
Documents found in this resource are evidence-based, but it is not a program plan. Each LTC home is unique and each home is in various stages of guideline implementation. LTC homes are advised to use the resource at their discretion. For those resources that have copyright notations, it is recommended that LTC homes obtain permission from the primary author prior to implementing them within their setting. The Toolkit is a dynamic resource, and is being updated and revised on a regular basis by the LTC Best Practices Program team. Visit this site often to see what's new!
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A tool to assist with comparing your organization’s current practice with evidence-based RNAO best practice recommendations.
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2022) Gap Analysis-Assessment and Management of Venous Leg Ulcers. Toronto, ON.
The Wounds Canada, Professional Guide is focused on caring for a person with an ostomy in the community setting. It addresses psychosocial and lifestyle issues, recognition of possible complications, discussion of interventions and identification of resources available to health-care providers and patients and their families.
© 2023 Wounds Canada · All rights reserved.
Nurses often face decisions about whether they can perform specific activities. This practice standard outlines the legislated scope of nursing practice and
other key requirements for nurses when deciding whether to perform an activity for safe client care.
Copyright © College of Nurses of Ontario, 2023
The recommendations in this document from Wound Canada, are based on the best available evidence and are intended to support the clinician, the patient, his/her family and the health-care team in planning and delivering the best clinical practice. Two foundational papers supplement this document with additional evidence-informed information and recommendations that are general to all wound types: “Skin: Anatomy, Physiology and Wound Healing,” and “Best Practice Recommendations for the Prevention and Management of Wounds.”
© 2018 Canadian Association of Wound Care All rights reserved. 1525r3E
On April 11, 2023, changes to Ontario Regulation 246/22 (the "Regulation") under the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021 (the "Act") came into effect.
Informed by engagement with key partners and stakeholders, as well as feedback from the public, the Ministry of Long-Term Care (the "Ministry") has refined the regulatory framework with consideration of the lived experience of residents and long-term care homes and emerging needs in the sector.
Retrieved from: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/220246
This free to join Community of Practice contains Modules on such topics as how wounds heal, wound assessment and wound packing. The site also has links to Canadian association of Wound Care, Diabetic Foot Canada, and several YouTube webinars on a variety of related topics
| BC Patient Safety and Quality Council. (n.d.). elearning modules: Skin and wound care. Retreived from https://www.clwk.ca/ |
Copyright 2016 BCPSQC. All Rights Reserved.
Wounds Care (formally CAWC) s a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of wound prevention and management by being the leading knowledge mobilization organization relating to wounds in Canad
| Wounds canada. (n.d.). https://www.woundscanada.ca/ |
The wounds canada website provides information on the role of the organization and educational offerings that support the advancement of wound care in Canada.
A detailed policy and procedure for preventing dehydration in LTC residents. It was developed by the Toronto Best Practice Implementation Steering Committee.
Reference: Toronto Best Practice in LTC initiative working group , (December 2006), Policy and Procedure: Hydration Management Toronto Best Practice in LTC Initiative, date retrieved, June 8 2015,
