Month: August 2016

Elizabeth Gillespie 1, Lama Tabbara 1, Carmel Scott 1, Anita Lovegrove 1, Despina Kotsanas 1, Rhonda Stuart 1 1 Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia     Background In 2013, an outbreak of van B vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE) involved the colonisation of 44 babies across the multisite neonatal service. Following that outbreak, we implemented a novel...

Katherine Shepherd 1  1 Research/Data Coordinator, Monash Health, 135 David St Dandenong, VIC, Australia   Introduction ICU patients are at higher risk of becoming colonised or infected with antibiotic resistant micro-organisms such as Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE). Transmission-based contact precautions and correct...

Kate O’Donaghue 1, Jane Tomlinson 1, Sue Scott 1, Rachel Holly 1, Kareena Johnson 1, Freya Tan 1, Bernadette Twomey 1 1 Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia   Introduction A government funded healthcare worker influenza vaccination program has been implemented for many years in Victorian public hospitals and data has been collected since 2005. The Department of...

Sue Flockhart 1, Catrice Grahame 2, Allison Hodge 3 1 Ballarat Health Services, Redan, VIC, Australia 2 Ballarat Health Services, Miners Rest, VIC, Australia 3 Ballarat Health Services, Ballarat North, VIC, Australia   Introduction: The introduction of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards in 2012, and an escalating number of isolation room...

Alison Farrington 1, Michelle Allen 1, Lisa Hall 1, Brett Mitchell 2  On behalf of the REACH study 1 Queensland University Of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia 2 Avondale College of Higher Education, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia   Background The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study is a partnership project funded by the National...

Peter Deliopoulos 1  1 General Manager, PDMedical Pty Ltd, Dandenong South, VIC, Australia   Introduction This session will cover a case study of collaboration between the infection control nurses of St. Vincents Private Hospital Melbourne and PDMedical Methods In essence this is a story about nurses...

Madeleine Clegg 1  1 Technology Commercialisation Associate, Nanosonics, Sydney, NSW, Australia   Introduction: Infection prevention and control (IP&C) in the healthcare setting is a shared responsibility and requires a system of clinical governance to continuously monitor and improve outcomes. There are parallels between the strategic plans and...

Louise Aiton 1 1 Infection Prevention Nurse, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia   Introduction At St Vincent’s Private Hospital Melbourne (SVPHM) the Exposure Injury Management Service was provided collaboratively by an external consultant and the in-house Infection Prevention Department. Limitations of the existing system...

Vanessa Sparke 1, Caryn West 1, David McLaren 1, Jane Mills 2 1 James Cook University, Smithfield, QLD, Australia 2 RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia   Photovoice is a process whereby participants use photography to document their needs, experiences and perceptions. Introduced in the 1990’s, photovoice has three main goals: to enable people to record and...

Carla De Marco 1, Louise Hobbs 1, Caroline Marshall 1 1 Melbourne Health, Parkville, VIC, Australia   Introduction Literature describes how the environment plays an important role in the transmission of micro-organisms. In 2012, the Infection Prevention Service began trialling a fluorescent audit process to measure cleaning efficacy. The discrepancy...