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ACIPC is excited to announce that we are holding a Lunch and Learn webinar on Friday 30 August at 12:00pm AEST.
Topic: Making correctional centres resilient to infectious diseases and communicable disease outbreaks
Presenter: Jane Connolly
Description:
Come along and enjoy your lunch whilst learning about infection prevention and control in the custodial setting. Public health approaches and key fundamental principles of infection prevention and control remain the mainstay of patient safety and outbreak management in prisons.
Correctional centre environments and their populations are located across all of NSW, geographically within other local health districts (LHDs), and present a particular set of challenges for infection prevention and communicable disease control.
Populations in custody are known to have an over-represented burden of disease compared to the general population, including higher rates of comorbidity, and infectious and transmissible disease. Given the high level of vulnerability of the prison population, COVID-19 and all other communicable diseases pose a serious risk to the health outcomes of prisoners and the wider population. The global COVID-19 pandemic has provided opportunities for further strengthening of infection prevention and communicable disease control strategies, thereby helping to ensure that this high-risk population is more resilient to infectious disease transmission and outbreaks in the future.
About the presenter:
Jane Connolly is the Clinical Nurse Consultant in Infection Prevention and Communicable Disease Control for Justice Health NSW. She has completed a Master of Public Health, specialising in Infectious Disease Control at the University of NSW and worked in a variety of locations across regional and remote NSW and the Northern Territory, where she has worked in a number of clinical specialties that included Midwifery, Public Health and Clinical Nurse Consultant roles in Infection Prevention and Control, Public Health Immunisation and Sexual Health.
She first commenced work in NSW Corrections Health in 1994 and after working across other LHDs has returned to work with Justice Health in 2022 as the Clinical Nurse Consultant Infection Prevention and Communicable Disease Control.
Jane has served on Rural Health Area Clinical Consultative Council previously and is interested in Nurse Leadership, cultivating health equity and shaping patient health on an individual and community level.
To register for this webinar, please click the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UHg4V0bBQ92NTIQD49iz0w#/registration
A recording of the webinar will be available in the members area of the ACIPC website.