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Canadian Best Practice Recommendations in Wound Care for People Who Use Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach

  • Writer: NSWOCC
    NSWOCC
  • 2 hours ago
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Nurses Specialized in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Canada (NSWOCC®) in partnership with the Harm Reduction Nurses Association (HRNA), and the Ontario Network of People Who Use Drugs (ONPUD) is pleased to announce the release of the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations in Wound Care for People Who Use Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach.


These Best Practice Recommendations (BPRs) are intended to support informed, evidence-based clinical decision-making and provide practical guidance for nurses, allied health professionals, and people who use drugs (PWUD). Grounded in harm reduction principles, the recommendations recognize wound care as an essential point of engagement for prevention, treatment, and trust-building within healthcare settings.


The Canadian Best Practice Recommendations in Wound Care for People Who Use Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach are now available on the NSWOCC® Best Practice Recommendations webpage: https://nswoc.ca/bpr#wound-care-pwud


This important work was developed through a collaborative partnership between NSWOCC®, the Harm Reduction Nurses Association (HRNA), and the Ontario Network of People Who Use Drugs (ONPUD). Together, clinicians, researchers, and individuals with lived and living experience came together to co-create guidance that is both clinically rigorous and deeply informed by real-world experience.


This model of collaboration—uniting national and provincial nursing organizations with people with lived experience—represents an exemplary approach to inclusive, person-centred knowledge development.


The Best Practice Recommendations were developed by a national expert panel that included people with lived experience, who also contributed original artwork featured throughout the publication. NSWOCC® extends its sincere thanks to Dr. Leigh Chapman, PhD, RN, Chief Nursing Officer of Health Canada, for providing the foreword to this publication.


We are also deeply grateful to John Gregory, IIWCC, ISWA (Opencity Inc.), Technical Writer and Project Manager, for his leadership in editing and producing these recommendations in close collaboration with the volunteer task force. NSWOCC® also extends heartfelt appreciation to all volunteers whose expertise, time, and commitment made this work possible.

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Nurses Specialized in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Canada (NSWOCC) is a registered charity of more than 1,500 Members and Associates , mainly nurses specialized in the nursing care of patients with challenges in wound, ostomy and continence.

Website: nswoc.ca

The Harm Reduction Nurses Association (HRNA) is a national organization dedicated to advancing harm reduction nursing through practice, education, research, and advocacy, and is a Specialty Interest Member of the Canadian Nurses Association’s Canadian Network of Nursing Specialties.


The Ontario Network of People Who Use Drugs (ONPUD) works to inform and shape drug policy through advising, consultation, activism, and capacity-building among its members.


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