Positioning Patients for Better Outcomes
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This webinar will be recorded live on July 16th, 2025 at 12:00PM CT. A recording of the webinar will be available within 24 hours of the live event.
This webinar will cover the importance of proper patient positioning to help reduce the risk of a hospital acquired pressure injury. It will showcase one hospital’s journey to success, and how following the new international guidelines can empower other facilities to build a successful positioning bundle too.
- Gain insight into how fluidized technology contributes to reducing pressure injuries related to the evidence.
- Explore the impact of positioners on minimizing pressure injuries.
- Understand how positioners can help in preventing staff injuries.
Gisele Castonguay RN, MSN, APRN,-CNP, CWOCN
Gisele is a former Captain in the US Air Force nurse Corps. She returned to Maine and has worked at various hospitals in the central Maine area. For the past 8 years she has worked in both the inpatient and outpatient wound care settings providing care and oversite to the wound and ostomy department at Central Maine Health
Gisele started her wound care journey after transitioning from an ICU nurse to the lymphedema therapy program in outpatient therapy services. She became a nationally certified lymphedema therapist and practiced for 8 years before joining an oncology department as a new NP. She attended R.B. Turnbull, Jr. MD School of WOC Nursing Education in Cleveland in 2012 and has a practicing WOC NP since that time.
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