This patient care regime, or the wound prevention/management program may have been initiated more recently in response to COVID-19.

The award is funded by an unrestricted educational grant from 3M+KCI to Wounds Australia. The grant will provide financial support for an individual or a maximum of four members in a skincare team. The winner of the Award will receive an educational grant of $4,000 to be used to support their professional development.

Purpose of the Award

The purpose of the Skin Integrity and Wound Care Award is to recognise an individual or team for creating and sustaining a successful skin damage prevention project. The project should demonstrate positive clinical outcomes, teamwork, and knowledge transfer.

The Award will recognise a skin damage prevention project across a broad scope, and may include:

• pressure injury prevention,
• Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis (IAD) prevention,
• skin tear prevention, and/or
• adhesive trauma prevention.

The project may be delivered in any health, aging or disability service including:

• hospital inpatients
• outpatients
• residential care
• community health service
• primary health care
• home visiting service or
• respite care.

Eligibility Criteria

This award will recognise an individual or clinical team for creating and sustaining a project designed to prevent skin damage.

The Award will target health care professionals who are championing skin injury prevention in their service. The Award will be open to entries from both individuals and teams.

To be eligible an entrant must:

• be a registered health care professional in Australia or New Zealand. For team entries, at least one team member must be a registered health care professional
• be a member of Wounds Australia or the NZ Wound Care Society. For team entries, at least one team member must be a member of Wounds Australia or the NZ Wound Care Society
• be over 21 years of age
• be currently employed by the employer for which the award project was created and implemented
• have approval from their employer to enter the project for the Award.

Please note: Employees, officers, directors (and their respective immediate family; spouse, children, parents and siblings) or household members (whether or not related) to Wounds Australia and 3M+KCI are not eligible to apply. Members of the assessment panel (and their respective immediate family; spouse, children, parents and siblings) or household members (whether or not related) will not be eligible to apply.

How to Apply

All applicants should submit applications online through the link provided on the Wounds Australia website 3M & KCI Award.  The Award Guidelines and Terms and Conditions can also be found on the website. Please read the Award Guidelines and Terms and Conditions before you start to fill the application.

Applications should be submitted by COB Tuesday 6 April 2021.

Click here to apply online. 

If you have any questions, please send an email to projects@woundsaustralia.com.au or ring 1800 870 855.