Professional Practice Development's mandate is to promote accountable professional practice in quality practice environments, facilitate patient and family centered care, foster collaborative team relationships and support research and evidence-based practice.

Clinical Professional Development Team (CPD) - The nurse educators are organized into Clinical Resource Teams

• Peri-operative
• Heart Heath
• Mental Health
• Emergency and Critical Care
• Medical, Surgical
• Veterans
• Cancer Care

Characteristics of clinical resource teams are:

• Similar patient population/clinical specialty
• Common standards and competencies

The CPD team is also engaged in a variety of core and sub-specialty education program offerings. There is now a practice leader team of educations responsible for the delivery and support of these. For information or to connect with an appropriate educator.