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ACIPC Aged Care IPC Community of Practice Webinar Series 2024 

Membership is not required for attendance – everyone welcome

Note: Aged Care IPC Leads who have completed the ACIPC Foundations IPC Course are automatically gifted an ongoing ACIPC Educational Membership. The membership enables access to website educational material and the Aged Care Infexion and Infexion Connexion. Educational members are asked to ensure their contact details are correct with the College.

Wednesday 10 April 2024   

Speaker: Sarah Gaines Hill. General Manager Infection Prevention and Control. Blue Cross

Looking at your facility through an IPC lens – what’s in an aged care IPC program?

This session looked at aged care facilities from top to bottom, identifying all the areas that require IPC consideration. Labelling these areas provides a foundation for an IPC aged care program. Templates and resources to guide this process were discussed. 

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Thursday 27 June 2024 , 12.00 pm AEST

Navigating the role of the IPC Lead

In 2021 we saw the introduction of the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Lead into every residential aged care facility across Australia, as a requirement of accreditation.

The Department of Health and Aged Care provide an outline of general requirements for the role, enabling providers to determine the role based on individual facility need, environment and capability.

The session provided suggestions for role and task descriptions, how to promote and enable the role and collaborative approaches with facility managers. We looked at templates and resources to guide this process.

To view the webinar recording, click on the image below:

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Wednesday 14 August 2024 

Nitty gritty of aged care IPC surveillance/audit 

This session explored the process of surveillance/audit in aged care – what auditing should be considered, what tools can be used, how results are turned into action plans, and how action plans are written. We looked at audit and action plan templates.  Our guest speaker was Kelly Barton, an Infection Control Consultant with 13 years’ experience in the role at Alpine Health in Northeast Victoria. Kelly recently completed her Masters in Infection Control at Griffith University in 2022. She is passionate about One Health, Aged Care and AMS. She recently went to Cambodia with the charity Supporting Silk Sisters to help a rural referral hospital with their first ever accreditation preparations. To view the webinar recording, click on the image below:

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Wednesday 16 October 2024 

Tips and tricks to managing IPC in environmental services – cleaning, laundry, waste, catering 

This session pulls apart all aspects of environmental services, and examines what IPC looks like in these speciality areas. What resources can support the services and help overseeing managers be in the know? The floor is open for comments, input and sharing ideas and concerns.

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Wednesday 11 December 2024 

Organisms of concern – managing multi-resistant organisms (MRO) in aged care 

MRO are not necessarily managed the same way in aged care as they would be in the acute sector. This session will look at common aged care MRO infections and how the risk can be assessed and managed. We look at infection location and transmission means to apply (or not apply) IPC precautions. This will also help attendees with the management of non-MRO infections.

Guest speaker will be Penny Radalj. Penny is a registered nurse with qualifications in critical care nursing and infection prevention and control. Her main area of clinical expertise is 15 years of acute cardiac nursing. She has worked as an IPC consultant for 12 years in a large regional health service, and now works for the Barwon South West Public Health Unit (BSW PHY). For the past three years, Penny has been leading the BSW PHU supporting the 74 public and private residential aged care facilities in the Barwon South West region to provide advice and review IPC and acute respiratory outbreaks through onsite visits and offsite communication.

The floor is open for comments, input and sharing ideas and concerns. Bring your phone to engage and participate in polls during the webinar.

To register for this webinar, please click the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VmHZbQVKQVuOIy6kiSGcAA