New Brunswick Wound, Ostomy and Continence Summit

Objectives

Engaging patients, health care administration, government and academic decision makers, senior nurses from the community and continuing care, and Nurses Specialized in Wound, Ostomy and Continence (NSWOCs) to:

1. ​Update decision makers on best practices in wound, ostomy, and continence within New Brunswick.
2. Evaluate patients’ experience living with an ostomy in New Brunswick versus other provinces.
3. Determine the economic burden for people living with an ostomy through the review of the ostomy impact study.
4. Provide information on the value of a wound, ostomy and continence tri-specialty to support patient-centred improvements.
5. Engage and strengthen the approach of wound, ostomy, and continence care through health care teams in New Brunswick.

Program

0800 Complimentary Breakfast and Networking 

0845 Opening Remarks and Elder Prayer

0850 The Current State of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence in New Brunswick

Nancy Schuttenbeld, MN, BScN, RN, NSWOC, WOCC(C) 

Kirsten Nickum, RN, NSWOC (ISPSC), WOCC(C), IIWCC

0910 Patient’s Perspectives - a Need for Better Access to Care 

Ann Durkee-MacIsaac, Chair of the Board, Ostomy Canada Society

Erin Feicht, Fredericton New Brunswick Ostomy Chapter

0940 Ostomy Impact Study 

Kim LeBlanc, PhD, RN, NSWOC, WOCC(C), FCAN

1005 Health Break with Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Exhibitors

1035 Propelling Patient-Centered Improvements with Specialized Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Management

Cathy Harley, eMBA, RN, IIWCC

1100 The Value of Specialized Care in a Team Approach

Dr. Brandyn Chase, Infectious Disease Specialist

1130 Engaging and Strengthening Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Decision Makers in New Brunswick

Group Discussion

1215 Meeting Close and Networking