#TeamUHDB gather at the annual Stop Pressure Ulcer Day conference
Last week, colleagues from across UHDB gathered at Mickleover Court Hotel for this year’s Stop Pressure Ulcer Day conference.
The conference, which took place on 17 November, is an annual event to coincide with International Stop Pressure Ulcer Day and is in its tenth year thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Tissue Viability (TV) Team.
The conference aims to raise awareness on pressure ulcers and discuss the ways to prevent them through sharing a series of talks from experienced clinicians, educational games, and workshops. The event saw over 80 members of #TeamUHDB attend the conference, who are all Tissue Viability Champions in their clinical areas.
Tissue Viability Champions are staff members from the nursing and allied health professions (AHP) that meet regularly with the TV team to provide a link between the Tissue Viability service and the clinical areas they work in, ensuring they are up to date with information on the TV services, including wound care and pressure ulcer prevention and management, and then sharing this with their teams.
In the lead up to the event, the TV team set up a ‘best board on a ward’ competition, which encouraged teams to create informative boards to raise awareness on pressure ulcer prevention on their wards. Well done to Ward 206 who won the competition, 402 and Nightingale Macmillan Cancer Care Unit for being runners up.
Paul Hardy, Lead Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, about the importance of raising awareness on Stop the Pressure Day. He said: “We have been supporting this event for many years. It’s vital that we continue to raise awareness on the management and prevention of pressure ulcers to ensure our practices at UHDB are the best that they can be.”
Paul praised the whole team’s involvement for this year’s event and said it was a huge success. “As a team we’re really proud of this event, to see so many of our colleagues here is a testament to the commitment to their role as TV Champions”.
Garry Marsh, Executive Chief Nurse, was among those delivering talks at the conference, he said: “It was great to see so many of our colleagues in attendance. I’m grateful to the team for their hard work in putting together this successful event as they continue to raise awareness around pressure ulcer prevention and management.”