AWMA Special Announcements
AWMA Committee Meetings
Business of the Association
Conference News
Journal “Wound Practice and Research” News
Research / Evidenced Based Practice
Professional Development / Education
State Association News
Wound Awareness Campaign
Archived News Section
AWMA Special Announcements
Wound Debridement Survey (23/1/2012)
AWMA invite you to complete this on line survey The information you provide will be most valuable as we investigate debridement practices in Australia and New Zealand
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AWMA Biennial Clinician Appreciation Award (20/1/2012)
The Australian Wound Management Association has pleasure in offering a biennial clinician/ mentor/ educator award.
Nominations close 17 February 2012 more>>
AWMA Fellowship 2012 (21/11/2011)
The AWMA Fellowship is a prestigious award that recognises outstanding and significant service to the Australian Wound Management Association and wound management within Australia and the Asia/Pacific region, nominations are now open more>>>
Draft Pan Pacific Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Injury (26/10/2011)
The Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Injury has been developed by the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) and its subcommittee the Australian Pressure Injury Advisory Panel more>>
Launch Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention
and Management of Venous Leg Ulcers (23/10/2011)
This guideline was developed by the AWMA in conjunction with the NZWCS and launched
at the Pan Pacific Pressure Ulcer Forum & Venous Leg Ulcer Forum in Canberra in
October 2011 more>>
AWMA Committee Meetings
AWMA News Release
Following each AWMA committee meeting AWMA provides a news release. This news release provides information on points of interest arising from the most recent Committee Meeting, as well details the important decisions that have been made by the committee.
The news release can be downloaded in PDF below.
AWMA Committee Meeting March 2011 - News Release
Past AWMA Committee Meetings
News Releases from past AWMA Committee Meetings can be obtained from here. more>>
Business of the Association
AWMA AGM 2012 (21/11/2011)
The Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held on Monday 19 March 2012 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. Information as well as document downloads can be found here more>>
New AWMA logo (10/10/2011)
As part of the restructure of AWMA and the state and territory wound management associations a new logo has been developed. This will form the basis of a new, national corporate AWMA brand more>>
Conference News
AWMA Bid for WUWHS 2016 Meeting (23/10/2011)
A/Prof Michael Woodward, bid Chair provides an update in relation to the AWMA bid for
the WUWHS (World Union of Wound Healing Societies) meeting in 2016 more>>
Journal "Wound Practice and Research" News
Wound Practice & Research The Asian – Pacific Online Edition (12/01/2012)
The Asian – Pacific Online Edition of the Wound Practice & Research Journal was launched in October 2011 and as avlaible for free to AWMA members more>>>
Comfeel Literary Awards (23/3/11)
The 2010 Comfeel literary awards were presented at the AWMA AGM in Brisbane in February. We congratulate the authors and remain grateful to Coloplast for supporting these important awards .
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Research / Evidenced Based Practice
Therapeutic Guidelines- Wounds (23/10/2011)
Many of you will be regular users of Therapeutic Guidelines (TGs) across a range of
clinical areas- antibiotics, anaelgesics, and most other clinical areas. I’m sure you’ve felt
that a TG on wound management that drew on the very practical, clinically relevant style of
these publications wound be a great addition more>>
AWMA Member Access JBI COnNECT Wound Healing and Management Node (27/07/10)
"Latest Wound Management evidence summarized for AWMA”. AWMA members can now access the Wound Healing and Management Node in JBI COnNECT to read Evidence Summaries more>>
Professional Development / Education
State Association News
Wound Awareness Campaign
Wound Awareness 2012 Survey (10/11/2011)
AWMA is conducting a short survey to assist planning activities for the 2012 Wound Awareness Campaign more>>>
Talking Health on 3AW (11/8/2011)
Bill McGuiness talks to Dr Sally Cockburn about Wound Awareness.
Click here to play audio
Also available on iTunes - Search for 'Talking Health on 3AW' - June 19, 2011
Archived News Section
Archived News Collection Searching for an old news or events item it may be contained within here…. more >>
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