IPPL Clinical Practice and Policy digest posts summarize updates over the past month about:
- Clinical Policies, Care Directives, Guidelines and Learning Modules
- Get the latest on clinically relevant, local guidance published through policies, care directives, guidelines and/or learning modules.
- Identify competencies relevant to your/your team’s practice.
- Dynamic Health (DH)
- Stay informed about implementation and use of Dynamic Health at Nova Scotia Health, including recent updates to Workplace Notes and Custom Workplace Skills.
- Clinical Practice Support (CPS) Subject Guides
- Learn about recently published and updated CPS subject guides, where you/your team can find relevant resources across DH, policies, care directives, guidelines and learning modules. CPS subject guides also include Key Practice Points and additional educational and guidance resources to support implementation and competency maintenance.
Original posts on the above topics can be accessed by Nova Scotia Health Employees through The Compass > Clinical Resources News.
NOTE CPP Digest posts will take a break over the summer and resume in September.
Policies, Care Directives, Guidelines and Learning Modules
- NEW CARE DIRECTIVE: Management of Anaphylaxis (Outside Emergency Departments)
- CD-CL-030 is supported by and includes several Dynamic Health (DH) skills. Leadership and Clinical Educators can find this new care directive, DH links and more support resources in the Management of Anaphylaxis Clinical Practice Support subject guide.
- NEW POLICY and PROCEDURES: Assess, Treat, and Release
- CD-EC-090 has been updated and includes several DH skills. Leadership and Clinical Educators can find this new policy, related procedures, DH links and more support resources in the Assess, Treat, and Release Clinical Practice Support subject guide.
Dynamic Health Updates
- New Workplace Notes and Reviewed Skills
- New notes have been created for a range of skills, including but not limited to: Caring for tracheostomy, Educating about pregnancy hypertension, Performing closed bladder irrigation, and Treating head lice and nits.
- View the list of New Workplace Notes and Reviewed Skills for June 2025.
- Revised Workplace Notes
- Workplace Notes about a range of skills have been revised, including but not limited to: Administering medication to obstetric patients, Inserting indwelling urinary catheters, Performing postpartum fundal assessment, and Monitoring sepsis transfusion reaction.
- View the list of Revised Workplace Notes for June 2025.
- Custom Workplace Skills
- NEW
- UPDATED
- Dialysis: Blood Sample Collection from a Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter
- Dialysis: Changing a Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Catheter Dressing
- Dialysis: Infusion of Alteplase in a Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter (CVC) during Hemodialysis
- Dialysis: Performing Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) / Twin Bag Exchange in Adults
- Dialysis: Performing the Modified Shower Technique for Peritoneal Dialysis Dressing Change
- Dialysis: Post-Dialysis Lock and Dwell Using Alteplase in Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter (CVC)
- Dialysis: Short Dwell Method of Alteplase in a Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter (CVC)
Clinical Practice Support Subject Guides
- NEW
- UPDATED
Site Visits and Dynamic Health Scavenger Hunt Winners
Thank you to all staff who spoke with Clinical Practice and Policy during our recent site visits in Eastern and Northern Zones and at each Zone’s Quality Summit! We received a lot of positive feedback, and suggestions or questions that will lead to positive improvements.
A special thank you to all the practice leads, clinical nurse educators and site managers who met with us in person to help navigate throughout specific locations and visit frontline staff on their units.
During our visits, we hosted a digital scavenger hunt for each site. Everyone who completed the scavenger hunt form entered a draw to win a $50 Amazon gift card provided by EBSCO. Remember to check your inbox (and spam/junk folder) or The Compass > Clinical Resources News to see if your name was picked!
Get in Touch!
Connect with Clinical Policy and Practice about this content update and opportunities to collaborate by emailing AskIPPL@nshealth.ca.
Find guidance about using Dynamic Health, setting up a personal account, exporting CE (Continuing Education) Credits, and more in the Dynamic Health Support guide.
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