IPPL is driving and defining professional practice standards and collaborating with partners to develop, monitor, and enable implementation of provincial clinical standards and guidelines to ensure responsive, ethical, evidence-informed, and accountable clinical practice across the organization.

Evidence-informed Practice (EIP) involves the conscientious and judicious use of key types of information when making decisions about policy and clinical practice. EIP considers:

• The best available research evidence,

• Case circumstances, state and context,

• Patient and family preferences and values, and

• Practitioner knowledge and experience.

ROLE OF INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND LEARNING IN EVIDENCE INFORMED PRACTICE

The IPPL team fosters the use of Evidence-Informed Practice within NS Health, providing access to best evidence and reducing barriers to Evidence informed Practice by:

• Fostering skills of clinical leaders and clinicians in critical inquiry, evidence review, critical appraisal and knowledge translation that promotes the incorporation of evidence into practice.

• Collaborating in the development, content management and implementation of evidence-informed clinical practice standards, guidelines, policy, practice support tools, patient and family resources, clinical education, and competency-based education programs, as well as professional development with clinical teams.

• Supporting timely, user-friendly access to evidence for clinicians and decision-makers to inform practice for improved patient outcomes and satisfaction, as well as quality improvement.