Open AccessThe Wound CARE Instrument: the process for developing standards for wound management education and programming
Author(s) -
Orsted Heather L.,
Woodbury M. Gail,
Stevenson Kimberly
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international wound journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1742-481X
pISSN - 1742-4801
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-481x.2011.00880.x
Subject(s) - medicine , wound care , process (computing) , nursing , process management , intensive care medicine , business , computer science , operating system
This article describes the collaborative process undertaken by the Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy and the Canadian Association of Wound Care in an effort to improve the quality of wound prevention and management education and programming. The end result of this process is the Wound CARE Instrument which promotes an interprofessional, collaborative appraisal process to support the development, adoption or adaption of wound management educational events and programs.