Hiske SmartMrs

Hiske Smart is an advanced nurse practitioner for specialist wound care and hyperbaric services, working in the Kingdom of Bahrain at the King Hamad American Mission Hospital. She is responsible for hospital- wide skin injury prevention and managing the ambulatory Wound care unit with an attached Hyperbaric oxygen therapy unit. She completed her nursing studies in South Africa and specialized with a Postgraduate Diploma in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair at the University of Cardiff (UK) in 1999, and the International Interprofessional Wound Care course at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2008. The World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) recognized her work done in Bahrain in 2022, where an advanced wound care unit supported by Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy with accreditation status from JCI and SAUHMA, was established from 2013 onwards at the King Hamad University Hospital. That clinical team was awarded with recognition as an International Advanced Centre of Clinical Wound Care Excellence. Since 2010 she is teaching faculty for the International Interprofessional Wound Care Course in Toronto and Abu Dhabi under the auspice of the Universities of Toronto and Queens in Canada, and the current president of the International Interprofessional Wound Care Group (IIWCG). Her life aim is to incorporate patient choice together with best evidence into clinical decision-making, and translate that approach directly to the bedside of patients with complex wound care needs. Moreso, to train as many health care professionals as possible, to do the same.