Professional practice

The Professional Practice Office is accountable for ensuring evidence-based practice standards are in place to support and guide nursing and allied health disciplines in providing safe, quality, person, and family-centred care.

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Overview

The Professional Practice Office is accountable for ensuring evidence-based practice standards are in place to support and guide nursing and allied health disciplines in providing safe, quality, person, and family-centred care. This includes both implementation of evidence and standards, and contributing to moving the organization forward through innovation, quality improvement, research, and knowledge translation.

What we do

Allied health & interprofessional practice

We support work in the following areas:

Allied health education & organizational strategy

If you are a PHC staff member, find learning and practice opportunities to support your professional practice and growth and development on connect (staff login required).

Nursing

Research & knowledge translation

The Providence Health Care Research and Knowledge Translation Team supports evidence-informed clinical practice and ongoing patient care improvements by offering programs that engage clinicians in research and knowledge translation. Our aim is to create quality practice environments by supporting professional development, through initiatives that encourage nursing and allied health staff to tackle clinically-relevant research and implementation projects to improve the way we provide care.

Last reviewed: January 7, 2025