Judith A Barnard
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, England
Biography
Judith Barnard is a Registered Nurse and has been a Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist for about three and a half years. She has a passion to reduce the incidence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers Misclassifi cation was proving to be problematic she is working to help healthcare professionals overcome this problem. The idea for the PUG wheel came when a need for a more accessible tool for nurses would make it easier to assess patient’s pressure areas. By using a different perspective healthcare professionals are able to correctly stage skin damage.