WOUND PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The Provincial Wound Prevention and Management Program is a collaborative effort with leaders across Nova Scotia to standardize the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based best practices in wound prevention and management across all of Nova Scotia, regardless of health sector or geographical region.
Audience: Any health professional who provides care related to wounds or pressure injury could benefit from education in this area.
Delivery: Both online and in person education are offered in this topic including during orientation. 
For information about the Nova Scotia Health's Wound Care Education Program please click here or visit the zone’s Educational offering pages for course offerings.

NURSING ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES

RN PRESCRIBING

This Masters level certificate program been implemented in collaboration with Dalhousie University to enhance access to prescribers in multiple care settings and in rural Nova Scotia.
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RESUSCITATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (RQI)

The Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI)® Program is a program from the American Heart Association that delivers quarterly training to support mastery of high-quality CPR skills. With RQI, healthcare providers have the confidence and competency to respond with life-saving patient care. Learn
Learn More about RQI at Nova Scotia Health here.

NURSE PRACTITIONER ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES

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VIOLENCE PREVENTION INTERVENTION AND RESPONSE PROGRAM

Provincial Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program: Delivered through contracted service providers, specially-trained on-call Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) provide immediate care within seven days of a sexual assault to people who would like supportive care.

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS - Meet the Team

Through collaboration with strategic partners our team supports the transition to practice for all health care providers within NSH. IPPL works with academic and community partners to advance the integration of care providers into all care settings within NS Health.
IPPL fosters a learning health system for NS Health. IPPL is the unifying force to create condition that enable cycles of continuous learning and improvements to be routinized and embedded across NS Health, enhancing value to impacts on patient and provider experience, population health and health system costs.
IPPL leverages our unique position within NS Health and with academic partners to contribute to the learner experience and development of future health care providers to improve recruitment and retention of team members.

Student and Learner Placements
We work closely with educational institutions across Canada, as well as staff, managers and program leaders within Nova Scotia Health, to arrange unpaid hands-on clinical and non-clinical placements for postsecondary students from a wide range of disciplines (except medicine).  We also arrange sharing of expertise, professional development, and maintenance of competency placements for health care professionals employed by various Canadian institutions, such as the Department of National Defence and hospitals in other provinces.  
SLPS uses the Health Services Placement Network (HSPnet) database to process/manage requests for over 5,000 students/learners per year, placing them in facilities throughout Nova Scotia Health.   As a learning and teaching organization, we are committed to creating supportive, collaborative learning environments that foster the development of all students/learners and their transition to practice.
More info here and here

Provincial Early Immersion Program
Nova Scotia Health’s Early Immersion Programs support the early onboarding of nursing students. This includes immersing nursing students as casual staff within the health system and hiring them into casual positions following 440 hours of clinical time.

Support to of Internationally Educated Healthcare Providers
Support the Transition to Practice Pathways for Internationally Educated Healthcare Providers.

WORKFORCE PLANNING - Meet the Team

The Integrated Workforce Planning team collaborates with leaders to align the health needs and required services of Nova Scotians, with the appropriate skills, competencies, providers, and service models necessary to optimally deliver these services. The Workforce Planning team provides leaders with analytical data and needs-based tools and solutions to inform workforce policies and interventions, and coordinates action needed to support the recruitment, retention, and redesign initiatives required to build a sustainable health workforce.

NOVA SCOTIA HEALTH LEARNING INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

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LIBRARY SERVICES

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