Collaborating Organizations

A number of professional organizations actively collaborate with the NPUAP in fulfilling its mission.  Criteria for collaborative organization membership are:

• The organization is a professional, trade, or consumer organization which has a substantial interest in pressure ulcer prevention or management.
• The organization's membership be supportive of the basic tenets of the NPUAP and be committed to participate in NPUAP activities.
• The organization be representative of various health care interests concerned with pressure ulcer prevention and treatment.

American Dietetic Association
http://www.eatright.org

American Health Care Association
http://www.ahca.org

American Physical Therapy Association
http://www.apta.org

Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association 
http://www.unitedspinal.org

Seating and Mobility Special Interest Group of RESNA
http://www.resna.org

Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing Society
http://www.wocn.org

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