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A New Look for the CAWC Pressure Ulcer Awareness and Prevention (PUAP) Program
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The CAWC’s Pressure Ulcer Awareness and Prevention (PUAP) program will have a new look in January 2010!
After successfully reducing the prevalence and incidence of pressure ulcers in facilities across Canada, the CAWC is expanding the PUAP program in order to enable more institutions to achieve significant benefits for their patients and clients.
Beginning in January, the PUAP program will fall under the umbrella of the new CAWC Institute of Wound Management and Prevention (CAWC Institute). The CAWC Institute will provide professional training in basic and advanced wound management, as well as in the prevention of pressure ulcers and other chronic wounds. The Institute will consist of a number of levels of professional education related to wound management and prevention. Level 3 will focus on prevention, drawing heavily from the former PUAP program. A pressure ulcer prevention program starter kit will be available for purchase for those who complete Level 3.
The first Level 3 prevention workshop will be offered in Toronto in March 2010. Stay tuned for more details!
So what do these changes mean for you?
First, rather than purchase the former program for an annual fee, our new prevention program will offer greater flexibility. You will be able to develop and train “prevention champion teams” and implement a prevention program in your facility according to your needs. Send your prevention “site champions” to Level 3 of the CAWC Institute and purchase a pressure ulcer prevention program starter kit to implement in your facility. Additional materials to help you prevent pressure ulcers and other chronic wounds will be available for purchase in future through our online Boutique.
Second, site champions can register and be trained any time the Level 3 prevention workshop is offered.
Third, those who attend the Level 3 prevention workshop will have unlimited access – free of charge – to pressure ulcer prevention experts through the CAWC website.
If you would like more information, please contact us via e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).