ACCWS™ 2024 Board of Directors Election
Voting Ends September 28, 2023 at 11:59pm Pacific Time
Nominations have been accepted and ratified by the current board members for the open positions on the Board of Directors of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. That means that we are ready to move through the election process.
As a member, it is your duty to vote for who should serve as your representative on the Board of Directors. Each nominees’ qualifications can be viewed by clicking on their name within the voting link. We recommend taking a few minutes to read through their credentials.
Please, take a couple of minutes to vote for your selection for our 4 open positions on the board by September 28th at 11:59pm Pacific time.
Who We Are
The ACCWS is dedicated to the advocacy, ongoing wound care education, and support of credentialed wound care providers of all disciplines. Our members strive to improve the public’s health by practicing and encouraging evidence-based wound care management to promote healing.
The American College of Clinical Wound Specialists™ has teamed up with the Journal of Wound Care (JWC) and Wound Central, a supplemental publication of the Journal of Wound Care to create more opportunities for our members.
The Journal of Wound Care welcomes contributions on all aspects of wound care, from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews, to case series and studies. Our editors and the supportive review process often provide inexperienced authors with constructive advice on how to improve their articles.
All articles will be sent for peer review. The Journal of Wound Care (JWC) will not accept material submitted to, or published by, other journals or books.
JWC welcomes unsolicited articles on all wound care issues. The journal publishes original research, literature reviews and clinical case studies. All articles submitted to JWC are will hold exclusive rights to articles.
ACCWS members receive a complimentary subscription to Wound Central, and a 40% discounted subscription to JWC and MagOnline using the code ACCWS40
Wound Central is a new double-blind peer reviewed journal that is published four times a year and brings together the publishing expertise of JWC.
Wound Central provides robust research and gives the opportunity for health professionals to write for and be a part of a new journal for North America. It is targeted at physicians, nurses, scientists, researchers, and academics and brings together research, reviews and expert opinion pieces all in one place.
Wound Central receives papers through JWC (impact factor of 2.066), or through the Wound Central submissions portal. The journal is catalogued in the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medline database and is available through a wide range of libraries, institutions and governments with a global scope.
As member of the ACCWS, you are entitled to receive a discounted subscription to Journal of Wound Care (JWC).
JWC is the leading source of tissue viability research and information. JWC is essential reading for all specialists who wish to enhance their practice and stay ahead of developments in wound management and tissue viability.
The journal is internationally renowned for its cutting edge and state-of-the-art research and clinical articles, as well as its coverage of management, education and novel therapies.
JWC has been associated with an Impact Factor (IF) of 2.066 for 2022. The journal is indexed in Medline, Scopus, CINAHL and the Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index-Expanded and Current Contents/Clinical Medicine.
We’d like to give a huge thank you to the sponsors of our Advancing the Standards of Wound Care Annual Symposium!
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