2024 Posters

# Poster Title Presenting Author
1 Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Related to Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Intensive Care Units:A Multi-Center Retrospective Study Western Region of Saudi Arabia (Online Poster) Asmaa Hagag
2 Hand hygiene monitoring with automated accelerometer sensor technology Georgia Matterson
3 Is Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) on the rise at Southwestern Sydney? Siu Mee Janet Li
4 Exploring oral care practices and hospital-acquired pneumonia prevention strategies Kate Browne
5 Sepsis in Emergency – An AMS Perspective Charles Mccafferty
6 Improving Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance and accessibility in the rural clinical setting (Online Poster) Caitlin McCashney
7 Clostridioides Difficile Infection and Antibiotic Usage at a Regional Hospital: a Case-Control Study Sarah Alland
8 Reduction of Hospital Onset – Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia using multi-strategies Chien Yen Tan
9 Epidemiology of Hospital-acquired Bloodstream Infections at a Quaternary Hospital Service Bhavi Ravindran
10 Multimodal Infection Prevention & Control Education Strategies to Reduce Acute Respiratory Virus Transmission in Hospital Ning An
11 Establishing Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Frances Gray
12 Improving Hand Hygiene Practices in the Marshall Islands Lilieta T. Frances Snoddy, Margaret Leong, Kate Ryan
13 Infection and all-cause failure of peripheral intravenous catheters: A systematic review and meta-analysis Nicole Marsh
14 Antimicrobial resistance and healthcare cleaning Lorenzo Tadeo
15 Does your nurse know how to clean? Lorenzo Tadeo
16 Microlearning in hand hygiene – The use of a Six Minute Intensive Training (SMIT) tool to improve compliance Amy Blake
17 Mapping Infection Prevention and Control in Australia between 2013–2024: Preliminary results of a scoping review Alison Smith
18 Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening for Department of Justice Patients attending Fiona Stanley Hospital. Natasha M Nunes
19 Gloves off, respirators on: Respiratory Precaution Poster Redesign Natasha M Nunes
20 From the shadows into the light: Reinvigorating a staff immunisation program Catina Eyres
21 linezolid-resistant vanA VRE outbreak. Are we worried? Barsha Baral
22 Cohorting patients with multi-resistant organism (MRO) in Fairfield hospital- Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) strategy in line with Patient safety Joann Chiong
23 An antimicrobial dressing for prevention of infection complication related peripheral intravenous catheter: an international randomised controlled trial.
– PropTrial –		 Claire Rickard
24 Gowns Down: A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Inappropriate Gown Use on a General Medicine Ward Sita Paling, Isabella Walker, Sarah Browning
25 Comparing Healthcare Associated Infection data to Hospital Acquired Complication Infection data collection and finding the documentation differences to improve accuracy. Arene Smuts
26 Junior doctors take to the floor: Exploring barriers to timely removal of antecubital fossa cannulae across four tertiary hospital wards Samantha Quoy
27 Optimising Antimicrobial Stewardship Efforts in Aged Care: Unveiling Trends and Strategies for Enhanced Practice Anh-Thu Le, Lydia Haileslassie
28 Clinical Audit of contact tracing and isolation/screening practices for patients with Carbapenemase producing Enterobacterales admitted to a large tertiary centre. Rebecca Sparks
29 Successful control of an OXA-181 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak across multiple sites in an Australian health service. Jacky Meyer
30 The digitalisation of cleaning Sara Peterson
31 Trends, epidemiology, and source of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in Queensland: hospital-based surveillance Yun-Ju Shih
32 Supporting IPC programs in RACFs via the residential in-reach program Louise Wright
33 Compliance towards AS5369 for water quality in Central Sterile Services Department and Endoscopy & aligning best practices for Legionella safety. Curt Werner
34 ‘Perhaps that’s enough’- Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections. Leasa Giles
35 Establishing a core healthcare associated infection surveillance measurement set for Queensland using a modified Delphi process. Jessica Schults, Sally Healy
36 Realigning Environmental Cleaning Practices to Curb the Carbapenem Resistant Organisms Outbreak in Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Fiji. Ashlyn Datt, Savneel Shivam Kumar
37 Sustaining Services and Building Capacity: Strategies for Growth During Challenging IPAC Periods Megan Brown
38 Inappropriate diagnosis of hospital-associated urinary tract infections Dorothy Ling
39 Ensuring Continuity and Excellence: Supporting New Infection Control Practitioners in ISLHD’s Infection Prevention  and Control Service Jillian Rutty
40 Urine Specimen Project Advancement: Quality Collection, Quality Specimen and Quality Care Carmel Couch
41 Hand Hygiene: Patients Empowering Patients Grace Babiano
42 An audit of preemptive screening and isolation for international healthcare exposure (Online Poster) Megan Gritt, Denise Delrosario-Kelly
43 Ward Contact Screening of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales – Do the Numbers Add Up? (Online Poster) Megan Gritt
44 Succession, not just a television series; How a novice built skills Keira Doan, Catina  Eyres, Melodie Heland
45 Survey of Infection Prevention staff perception of WGS integration into routine IPC practice Dorothy Ling
46 South West Sydney Local Health District Infection Prevention Website Arene Smuts
47 “000”  Ambulance. What’s Your Emergency?
Aseptic Technique!		 Leanne Coulson
48 Increasing haemodialysis bloodstream infections associated with cuffed catheters in Western Australia (2014-2024) Lisa Nicolaou
49 Help! – Where’s the Remote “Infection” Control? Trish Hurst
50 Data for action: implementing a framework for Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance to inform quality improvement in Australia Deb Friedman
51 The burden of Gram-negative pathogens causing surgical site infections among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Victoria, Australia Deb Friedman
52 Introduction the dip or not to dip campaign at 10 regional aged care communities Allison Hodge
53 Continued Glove Usage vs. Hand Hygiene in Hospital Settings: Impacts on Infection Prevention and Compliance Anie Edward
54 Building capacity in an Infection Prevention and Control Unit by mentoring novices. Sue Flockhart
55 Infection prevention practices for non-tunnelled haemodialysis catheters in the intensive care unit: preliminary results from an Australia-wide cross-sectional survey Amanda Corley
56 A comparative analysis of impacts of the environment on reported infections in the community setting Logan Salmon, Nigel Aberdour
57 The impact of skin emollient formulated into Alcohol Based Hand Rubs for regular Hand Hygiene usage Greg Whiteley
58 Cannula-related colonisation and infection during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Amanda Corley
59 Promoting Awareness of Otitis Media in Aboriginal Children in the Community Mary-Clare Smith
60 Bare Below the Elbows Poster Mary-Clare Smith
61 UV-C disinfection of ultrasound probes: challenges of uneven irradiance on complex surfaces Jonathan Burdach
62 Driving quality improvement in following the transition of Mental Health & Well Being Service into a Victorian Public Health Service. Kim Nash
63 Binational survey of vascular access device insertion and management workforce Amanda Corley
64 Wash with the Wardies. Michelle Bolte, Justin Fox
65 Creating a virtual IPC office – a safe space to ask IPC questions Rebecca Scott, Terri Butcher,  Joanna Price
66 Hepatitis C treatments for individuals under custody: the contributing role of Justice Health NSW towards NSW Hepatitis C elimination goal Cristina Sotomayor-Castillo
67 Relative burden of healthcare associated COVID infections compared to other reportable healthcare associated infections (HAI) assuming ongoing continuous surveillance. Marion Kainer
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