MASD Awareness Day featured in Nursing Times

A recent Nursing Times article featured the upcoming Moisture Associated Skin Damage (MASD) Awareness Day on 17 March, which aims to get everyone to start thinking about MASD and have a plan in place to MINIMISE Moisture for those patients most at risk of developing MASD. Julie Tyrer, Tissue Viability Nurse Consultant, and Samantha Mills, Tissue Viability Nurse, at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, have partnered up with healthcare company Medline to launch a new annual campaign for MASD.

MASD is an umbrella term that covers a range of types of skin damage caused by repeated or prolonged moisture on the skin. Unfortunately, MASD is on the rise in areas like critical care. MASD Awareness Day and the MINIMISE Moisture campaign offer staff and patients the opportunity to gain new knowledge and raise awareness of MASD, and includes a specially designed campaign resource kit. So far, 70+ organisations in the UK are participating.

You can learn more or sign up to participate here.