Invitation ‘Growing, Nurturing & Harvesting Wound Care’
We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the 2012 AWMA (NSW) Inc. Biennial
Branch Conference to be held in the Mercure Resort Hunter Valley Gardens, Cessnock,
11th -12th November 2012. The conference theme, Growing, Nurturing and Harvesting
Wound Care in the Vines will be your chance to network with a group of health care
professionals in an environment that will stimulate new growth in wound care knowledge.
Be motivated by your colleagues wound management presentations, success stories and
shared enthusiasm of making a difference for people living with wounds.
The AWMA (NSW) Inc. Program Committee aims to cater for the learning needs of health
care professionals in acute care facilities, community based settings and outpatient
services. Research methodologies, education innovation and their implementation feature
strongly in the program. Current best practice initiatives will be discussed and include the
challenges faced in meeting health care budgets while supporting patient and family
centred care and healing outcome. A combination of plenary, concurrent and poster
presentations will be included in the two day program.
We look forward with anticipation to your abstract submission and the opportunity for you
to share with us during concurrent sessions or in the poster hall of this conference.
Abstract submission will commence 30thth July and close 15th October 2012.
Edel Murray (Chair) Program Committee
Program themes and topics
Growing: Clinical Research
Nurturing: Information / Innovation / Education report
Harvesting: Case series / study
Presentation Types, Categories & Themes
The AWMA (NSW) Inc. invites you to take part in this exciting event and submit an
abstract for: Oral or Poster presentation
Address: PO box 214, High Street,
Maitland, NSW 2320
E-mail: info.nsw@awma.com.au
Web: www.awma.com.au/nsw/
in one of the following categories:
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Clinical Research
Information / Innovation / Education report
Case series / study
Themes/Ideas for the above categories (listed in bracket is example only)
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Acute wounds (trauma: burns, bites etc / surgery: open abdomen etc)
Aging issues (risk assessment, skin tear injuries)
Bariatric challenges
Complex wounds (autoimmune, inflammatory / vasculitic, infectious)
Diabetic neuropathic foot wounds / ulceration
Interdisciplinary approach / team work
Legal & ethical practice / human rights in wound management
Lower limb ulceration
Pressure Injury
Mentoring in wound management
Natural therapies
Negotiating funding for wound management projects
Palliative wound management (malignant / unhealable)
Patient / consumer education and innovation
Person perspective / Quality of life / Well being
Skin related issues (dermatological issues / erysipelas vs cellulitis / radionecrosis
etc)
Volunteering in wound management
Wound bed preparation (debridement, infection, exudate management)
Wound therapeutics (hyperbaric therapy/ MMP modulation / warming etc)
other
NB: Abstracts are invited on topics relevant to the Conference theme; however this does
not limit or exclude any other potential submission.
Abstract submission
Before submitting your abstract, please ensure that you have carefully read the abstract
preparation guidelines contained on the conference web site
Address: PO box 214, High Street,
Maitland, NSW 2320
E-mail: info.nsw@awma.com.au
Web: www.awma.com.au/nsw/
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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250 words maximum, containing the following headings:
o objective,
o statement of findings and
o key conclusions
English is the official meeting language.
All abstracts must be thoroughly checked for spelling and grammar before
submission.
Abstracts must include a title, author names, and author affiliations. The presenting
author must be indicated with an asterisk.
Abstracts can only be submitted online in Microsoft Word format only. You must
save the document with the extension ".doc" or ".docx" (Word default).
All submissions must be accompanied by an 80 word biographical paragraph of the
presenting author. This information will be used by the session chair for
introduction purposes or may also be published in meeting literature.
Please note that selecting your presentation type (oral, poster or either) is a
preference only.
The decision of acceptance of abstracts is at the discretion of the AWMA (NSW)
inc. program committee.
Submit abstract via e-mail to Di Carr, secretariat AWMA (NSW) Inc. Email address:
info.nsw@awma.com.au
Abstract selection criteria
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by specialists in the field. Although authors must
indicate their preferred form of communication (oral or poster) the type of presentation
offered is the decision of the scientific program committee.
Selection criteria will include:
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Originality and interest
Potential for significance for the field
Adds to the current state of knowledge
Abstract structure and clarity
Registration
Please note that all presenters must register for the meeting by 30th October 2012.
Registration not received by this date will result in presenters being withdrawn from the
program. Successful abstracts will published and distributed electronically to all delegates
at the conference.
Address: PO box 214, High Street,
Maitland, NSW 2320
E-mail: info.nsw@awma.com.au
Web: www.awma.com.au/nsw/
Notification of acceptance
Authors will be notified of abstract acceptance or otherwise in early October 2012.
Please note: the program committee cannot guarantee that the presentation type of
choice will be granted to authors. The decision of the program committee is final and no
correspondence will be entered into.
Certificate of Merit
All accepted oral and poster presenters accepted will be awarded a Certificate of Merit to
acknowledge their contribution to AWMA NSW 2012.
Copyright Regulations
All authors will be asked to sign a transfer of copyright agreement upon acceptance and
consent to AWMA (NSW) Inc. 2012 Conference making their paper/s available to
conference delegates via the conference website or hard/soft copy proceedings. Papers
will not be accepted into the program without signed acknowledgement of the copyright
regulations. Authors are to ensure that any images or text used in the paper have
copyright clearance. Authors should consider this before submitting their abstract.
Address: PO box 214, High Street,
Maitland, NSW 2320
E-mail: info.nsw@awma.com.au
Web: www.awma.com.au/nsw/