Dr. Peta-anne Zimmerman1,2, Dr Deborough Macbeth2, Mrs Rita Roy3 1Griffith University, Southport, Australia 2Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Southport, Australia 3Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, Australia Introduction Mentoring has been identified in the literature as a means of supporting...
- July 5, 2018
Ms Marcia Ingles1 1Anglican Care, Booragul, Australia Introduction Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs) is a massive task. Residents have multiple co-morbidities, hospital admissions, and live in close proximity to each other, decreasing the...
- July 5, 2018
Ms Simone Tempone 1, Ms Rebecca McCann1, Dr Paul Armstrong1 1Department of Health Western Australia, Perth, Australia Introduction: Since 2010, Healthcare Infection Surveillance Western Australia (HISWA) have reviewed all Staphylococcus aureus positive blood cultures processed by PathWest Laboratory Medicine....
- July 5, 2018
Ms Janet Wallace1 1Children’s Health Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia Introduction The presentation of a patient at a busy emergency department (ED), later diagnosed with measles, lead to a cascade of events including contact tracing of staff, patients and those...
- July 5, 2018
Managing Influenza Like Illness in Hunter New England, lessons learnt from Lower Hunter Sector 2017.
Ms Patricia Karbowiak1 1Hunter New England Local Health District, Belmont, Australia Introduction: Early recognition, resource allocation and patient management for patients requiring admission during periods of increased hospital activity due to Influenza Like Illness. Methods: Use of electronic tracking...
- July 5, 2018
Mrs Helen Truscott1 1Mater Health Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia Introduction: Antimicrobial Resistance is described by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2015), as the process whereby a microorganism (i.e. bacteria) develops resistance to an antimicrobial drug (i.e. an...
- July 5, 2018
Ms Fiona Wilson1, Dr Tara Anderson1 1Public Health Services, Department Of Health And Human Services, Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Introduction: The Tasmanian Infection Prevention and Control (TIPCU) conducted a pilot of antimicrobial use surveillance in three rural hospitals in 2014....
- July 5, 2018
Dr Holly Seale1 1University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Introduction: Patient engagement around hospital Infection control and antimicrobial over prescribing has been proposed as a useful adjunct to improving the impact of efforts in these areas. Government infection...
- July 5, 2018
Dr Ruchir Chavada1, Dr Liam Clifford2, Dr Owen Weisback2 1NSW Health Pathology, Gosford , Australia, 2Department of Medicine,Gosford/Wyong Hospital, Gosford , Australia Introduction Despite availability of several rapid Influenza tests(RIT), literature on its impact on antimicrobial stewardship programs(AMS) is...
- July 5, 2018
Julia Robertson1, Fang Ou2, Cushla McGoverin2, Frederique Vanholsbeeck2, Simon Swift1 1Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, The University Of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 2Department of Physics, The University Of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Introduction Antibiotic resistance is a serious...
- July 5, 2018