2016 ACIPC

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...

Ana Suto 1, Louise Hobbs 1 1The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parville, VIC, Australia   Introduction Melbourne Health (MH) embarked on a process to reduce occupational exposures due to continually not meeting the Victorian Blood Exposure Surveillance (ViBES) (2010) aggregate rate of 0.52 per 1000 occupied bed...

Maree Sommerville 1, Annaliese VanDiemen 2 1 Infection Control Manager, Mercy Hospital For Women, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia 2 Senior Public Health Officer, Department of Health & Human Services, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Introduction: Measles in a highly infectious viral illness which causes high rates of disease in non-immune contacts of cases. The sequelae...