Updates & Announcements

Fall Education Calendar

NS Wound Leadership Group

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Provincial Wound Program Conference

• Healing Beyond the Scab: A CMT Breakthrough in Long-Term Care
  Resolving Recurrent Scabbing and Delayed Wound Closure in a High-Risk Geriatric Resident: A Case Study
  Author: Tara Henneberry LPN AWCC
  Parkstone Enhanced Care, Shannex
• Holistic Healing: Before and After a Wound
  Collaborative Framework for Proactive Skin Health and Wound Management in Long-Term Care
  Author: Sharlene Tynski LPN AWCC
  Inverary Manor Nursing Home
• It Takes a Team: Managing a Complex Subcutaneous Hematoma in Long-Term Care
  Outcomes of an Interprofessional Approach Using UrgoClean Ag: A Case Study
  Author: Wendy Feindel-Finlayson LPN AWCC
  Harbour View Haven
• Achieving Healing in a Challenging Venous Ulcer in Long-Term Care
  The Role of UrgoClean Ag: A Case Study
  Authors: Virginia Fletcher RN AWCC, Laura Lake LPN AWCC, & Erin MacRae OT SHARP
  Dykeland Lodge
• Healing Together: An Interprofessional Approach to a Stage 4 Coccygeal Pressure Injury
  A case study highlighting collaborative strategies for optimizing wound healing in long-term care
  Authors: Paula Hopkins LPN AWCC, Josey Allen OT, Hayley Osborne RD & Anna Taylor RD
  Northwood Halifax
• Restoring Comfort and Dignity in Palliative Wound Management
  Enhancing Quality of Life Using Hypochlorous Acid: A Long-Term Care Case Study
  Author: Danielle Gautreau LPN AWCC
  Gables Lodge, GEM
• Rethinking Fistula Care: Conservative Management in Long-Term Care After Hernia Repair Complications
  Utilizing Super Oxidizing Saline to Enhance Quality of Life, Streamline Care,
  & Support Cost-Effective Management of Maintenance Wounds
  Author: Logan Rutledge RN AWCC
  Wynn Park Villa
• Muscle Pump Activator (MPA) Device
  A Caste Study in Chronic Leg Lymphedema and Papillomas
  Author: Tracy Gates LPN AWCC
  Orchard Court, Shannex

2026 Wound Conferences

• Oct 15-18 -Symposium on Advanced Wound Care) USA
• Oct 22-24 – Wounds Canada National Hybrid conference Niagara Falls

Wound Care Wednesday Recordings

• Wound Care Wednesday – Scotiaderm – September 23, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday: Lower Limb Assessments, Presented by Cathy Burrows and Patricia Coutts – April 8, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday: Protection for Persons in Care Act – PPCA March 18, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday – Wound Assessment & Documentation March 11, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday – Best Practice & Principles of Documentation March 4, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday: Wound Infection vs. Inflammation – February 11, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday: Implementing Restraint as a Last Resort Policies into Practice – February 5, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday: Recognizing and Caring for Different Skin Pigmentations – February 4, 2026
• CCA Pressure Injury Day Repeat – January 21, 2026
• Wound Care Wednesday – Skin Tears – October 22, 2025
• Wound Assessment and Documentation – March 26, 2025
• PPCA and Documentation presented by Barb McCarthy – March 19, 2025
• Review of Documentation – February 2025
• Sibbald/Burrows Presentation – February 2025

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