Wounds Canada is dedicated to advancing wound prevention and wound care by offering the latest policy information from leading Canadian experts. Below are a series of webinars discussing challenges, opportunities, strategies and best practices to support building healthy communities across Canada.
Challenges and Opportunities to Limb Preservation in Rural and Remote Communities
In this panel, the speakers will identify the universal barriers to limb preservation in rural and remote communities. They will also describe the potential opportunities, solutions, technologies and initiatives to improve access to multidisciplinary care and patient outcomes.
Jeremy Caul MClSc-WH BScN RN CDE, Bijan Najafi MSc PhD, Peta Tehan BHealth Sc (Pod) GCPTT GCertWoundCare PhD, David Armstrong DPM MD PhD
Wound Care Challenges in Indigenous Communities
In this session, speakers will identify the barriers and opportunities for implementing best practices in wound prevention and care in Indigenous communities.
Daisy Sugarhead RN BScN Anishnawbe Mushkiki Eqway, Heather Wright MClSc-WH BScN RN NSWOC WOCC(C), Shafiq Qaadri MD HBA
Barriers and Opportunities for Virtual Wound Care in Canada: Funding, Policy, Technology and Clinical Practice Issues
In this panel, speakers will identify and discuss the barriers and opportunities to virtual wound care in Canada.
Trevor Champagne MD FRCPC DABD, Christine Murphy PhD RN WOCC(C), Laurie Parsons MD FRCPC IMWCC, Douglas Queen PhD MBA
Diabetic Foot Amputation Prevention: Pathways From Across the World
In this session, the speakers will identify different diabetes-related non-traumatic lower limb amputation prevention pathways from across the world.
Karim Manji DPM FACFAS, Harikrishna Nair MD FRCPI FCWCS CMIA, Lee Rogers DPM FFPM RCPS(Glasg.), Gulnaz Tariq RN BSN PGDip(Pak) IIWCC-UAE, Kristien VanAcker MD PhD, Tobi Mark BSc DCh
Tips from the Experts: Use of Advanced Therapies
Electrical stimulation therapy (E-stim) is an example of an evidence-informed advanced therapy that is independent of industry and that requires health professionals to advocate, educate and implement. Successful knowledge implementation strategies used to promote the addition of E-Stim into several sites across Canada within the “E-Stim Collaboration Project” will be presented. Lessons learned from the strategic implementation of advanced therapies into Alberta Health Services. Local policies and procedures (clinical resource tool) as well as other useful resources designed to help clinicians incorporate advanced therapies into everyday practice will be identified. The information provided can be used to support the implementation of advanced therapies into different health care settings located across Canada.
Pamela Houghton PhD PT, Kelly Sair MClSc-WH BScPT, Jordan Smart MClSc-WH BN RN
The Impact of COVID-19 on Patients with Wounds: A National Perspective
In this panel, the speakers will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on patients with wounds in Canada.
Maureen Charlebois CHE MHSc BScN RN, Crystal McCallum MClSc-WH BScN RN, Ranjani Somayaji MPH BScPT MD FRCPC, Rosemary Kohr PhD RN
Virtual Wound Care: Lessons COVID-19 has Taught
In this session, the presenters describe some components of a wound care clinic or setting that need to be considered when being forced to change practice overnight due to a pandemic. They will also describe the barriers and solutions to care in moving clinic clients that are followed by a multidisciplinary team to a home environment.
Laurie Parsons MD FRCPC IMWCC, Kelly Sair MClSc-WH BScPT, Glyn Murgatroyd BScOT BPE
Implementing Best Practice in Alberta: A Diabetes Foot Care Clinical Pathway
In this session, speakers will describe their successful approach to implementing a sustainable diabetes foot care clinical pathway in the primary care sector in Alberta and the outcomes to date.
Kathy Dmytruk RD CDE, Petra O'Connell BSc MHSA, Eileen Emmott BScN RN WOCC(C) IIWCC
Facilitating the Implementation of Best Practice in Alberta: Pressure Injury Prevention
This session highlights work from the Provincial Pressure Injury Committee, Covenant Health’s pressure injury prevention program and the Neurosciences Rehabilitation and Vision Strategic Clinical Network. This session also reviews systemic and organizational barriers related to pressure injury prevention in Alberta and strategies to overcome these barriers to improve outcomes. This session will include information related to pressure injury audits, knowledge translation, collaboration and engagement.
Charlene Brosinsky BSN RN, Chester Ho MD, Marlene Varga MSc BScN RN, Kimberly Nickoriuk BN RN
Advancing Collaborative Practice in Alberta
In this session, the speakers will describe the difference between evidence-based and evidence-informed practice, and their impact on professional practice and resource allocation from both a clinical and organizational perspective. The session will explore the role of the provincial formulary and clinical practice resources in streamlining clinical practice, and describe the impact of clinical information systems on patient outcomes.
Kimberly Nickoriuk BN RN, Michele Stanley RN
How to Convince Decision Makers to Invest in Limb Preservation
In this panel, the speakers will identify strategies to convince decision-makers to invest in limb preservation services/centres.
Venita Chandra MD FACS, Karim Manji DPM FACFAS, Richard Neville MD FACS DMSVS, Giuseppe Papia MD MSc FRCSC FRSCS