This webinar will provide an overview of RNAO's third edition, Assessment and Management of Pressure Injuries for the Interprofessional Team clinical best practice guideline (BPG), and highlight the key changes to the recommendations since the publication of the Assessment and Management of Stage I to IV Pressure Ulcers BPG in 2007.
The objectives of this one-hour webinar will be to:
- provide a brief introduction to the guideline’s background, purpose and scope
- highlight the new additions and revisions to the guideline since its last publication
- provide an overview of the practice, education and system/organization/policy recommendations with a specific focus on the clinical best practices most relevant to the front-line interprofessional team
Features
- Interaction with two clinical experts in wound care who most recently co-chaired RNAO’s third edition of the Assessment and Management of Pressure Injuries for the Interprofessional Team clinical best practice guideline
- Opportunity to ask two clinical experts questions about the content in the pressure injury guideline
Presenters
Irmajean Bajnok, RN, PhD
Director, International Affairs and Best Practice Guidelines Centre
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario
Grace Suva, RN, MN
Program Manager – Clinical Management
Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
R. Gary Sibbald, MD, M.Ed, D.Sci(Hons), FRCPC (Med. Derm), FAAD, MAPWCA
Expert Panel Co-Chair
Professor of Public Health/Medicine
Director- IIWCC & MSc. Comm. Health
Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health
Women’s College Hospital
Trillium Health Care Partners
University of Toronto
Karen E. Campbell, RN, PhD
Expert Panel Co-Chair
Field Leader MClScWH, & Wound Project Manager
Western University
ARGC Lawson Research Institute
For more details on the webinar and the pressure injury guideline, please contact RNAO Program Manager, Grace Suva at gsuva@rnao.ca
