Month: July 2016

Rosemarie Sadsad 1,2,3, Matthew O’Sullivan 1,2,3, Vitali Sintchenko 1,2,3, Gwendolyn Gilbert 1,2,3 1 Centre For Infectious Diseases And Microbiology – Public Health, Westmead, NSW, Australia 2 Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney, NSW, Australia   Introduction: Prospective surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using rapid,...

Sally Havers 1,2, Lisa Hall 2, Katie Page 2, Andrew Wilson 3 1 Hand Hygiene Australia, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia 2 QUT, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia 3 Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia   Introduction: In 2010 the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards were introduced including a criterion addressing aseptic technique (AT) practices. Minimal...

Stacey Fitzgerald 1, Ann Whitfield 1 1 Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia   Introduction In 2015 a greenfield hospital opened with high expectations of being innovative, developing a new culture and delivering patient and staff safety. Infection Prevention (IP) and Hand Hygiene (HH) were at the forefront....

Elizabeth Orr 1, Noleen Bennett 1, Jennifer Bradford 1, Sandra Johnson 1, Ann Bull 1, Michael J Richards 1, Leon J Worth 1,2 1 VICNISS Coordinating Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2 University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Background: In acute healthcare facilities, auditing of hand hygiene (HH) compliance informs quality improvement programs and is a requirement for accreditation standards. However, there...

Debra Lee 1, Karen Beaumont 1, Thi Aung 1, Craig Margetts 1, Joel Dulhunty 1,2,3 1 Redclife Hospital MNHHS, Redcliffe, QLD, Australia 2 The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 3 Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland   Introduction: Medical officer (MO) hand hygiene (HH) compliance has historically been below the national threshold of 70% and 17-18 percentage points lower...

Rajneesh Kaur 1, Husna Razee 1, Holly Seale 1 1 UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW   Introduction: Despite the well-recognised importance of education and training in improving hand hygiene (HH) compliance of medical students it is an increasingly neglected part of medical education. To date, there have been very...

Kate Halton 1, Lisa Hall 1, Anne Gardner 2, Deborough MacBeth, Brett Mitchell 2,4 1 Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 2 School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University, Dickson, ACT 4 Faculty of Nursing Arts, Nursing and Theology Health, Avondale College of Higher Education, Wahroonga, NSW   Background:...

Peta-Anne Zimmerman 1,2,3, Julia Gilbert 1, Lynne Brown 1, Ramon Shaban 1,2,3 1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, Australia 2 Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia 3 Menzies Health Institute Queensland, QLD, Australia   Introduction: This study explores factors influencing the infection prevention and control practice of pre-registration...

Lyn Gilbert 1, Ian Kerridge 1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University Of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia   It is known that doctors comply poorly with HAIPC compared with nurses. To understand this better, we interviewed senior doctors and nurses, at...

Matthew Richards Clinical Nurse Consultant, Melbourne Health, Parkville, VIC, Australia   Introduction In 2010 a commercial electronic infection control software program was introduced to assist with managing the surveillance, consultation and work undertaken by the Infection Prevention and Surveillance Service (IPSS) at Melbourne...