Course Access
Hi Cate,
We supply and launder all our surgical scrubs for both surgical and for staff working in the COVID wards. We also initiated that staff change on site, so they travel to and from work in civvies, 1 to protect them from taking anything home with them on clothing and secondly to protect the staff from members of public and bad behaviour towards tem.
Thanks
Jayne
Jayne O’Connor RN ,BSc.,Inf.Cont
IPC Co-Ordinator
Sydney Adventist Hospital | 185 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, NSW 2076
p: +61 2 9487 9732 | f: +61 2 9473 8052 | m: +61 0406 752685 | e: jayne.oconnor@sah.org.au
http://www.sah.org.au
[SAH_EntitySignature2017][cid:image002.png@01D6814A.18E7DD60]
HI Cate
Our experience in the beginning was that it didn’t matter IPC or Executive had informed people not taking surgical scrubs from Theatres. People just did it.
IPC & ID continue with the consistent message of PPE is appropriate; along with hand hygiene.
Eventually, many members of the General Medical Team have purchased their own. We still have some who continue to use hospital scrubs yet it is a lot less.
Our ID/IPC Team decided to write a brief communication about this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpc.14938
Regards
Claire Nayda | CNC Infection Prevention & Control and TB Coordinator| Microbiology CHW
t: (02) 9845 0534 | p: 6820 | e: claire.nayda@health.nsw.gov.au | w: http://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au
HI everyone
Could you tell me if your facility is supplying hospital ( surgical OT) scrubs and laundering to clinical staff in quarantine or swabbing clinics, drive through or otherwise. If so can you tell me the rationale and point me in the direction of evidence that this reduces transmission of COVID-19.
We are advocating that PPE including Gown, eye protection, mask and gloves is sufficient for these environments.
What are your thoughts?
Cate Coffey
Clinical Nurse Manager
Central Australia Health Service
Department of Health
Northern Territory Government
Infection Prevention and Control Unit
Alice Springs Hospital
PO Box 2234, Alice Springs, NT 0871
cate.coffey@nt.gov.au
t. 08 8951 7737
http://www.health.nt.gov.au
MESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.
The use of trade/product/commercial brand names through the list is discouraged by ACIPC. If you wish to discuss specific reference to products or services by brand or commercial names, please do this outside the list.
Archive of all messages are available at http://aicalist.org.au/archives – registration and login required.
Replies to this message will be directed back to the list. To create a new message send an email to acipclist@acipc.org.au
To send a message to the list administrator send an email to admin@acipc.org.au
You can unsubscribe manually from this list by sending ‘signoff acipclist’ (without the quotes) to listserv@aicalist.org.au
This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender.
Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of NSW Health or any of its entities.
MESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.
The use of trade/product/commercial brand names through the list is discouraged by ACIPC. If you wish to discuss specific reference to products or services by brand or commercial names, please do this outside the list.
Archive of all messages are available at http://aicalist.org.au/archives – registration and login required.
Replies to this message will be directed back to the list. To create a new message send an email to acipclist@acipc.org.au
To send a message to the list administrator send an email to admin@acipc.org.au
You can unsubscribe manually from this list by sending ‘signoff acipclist’ (without the quotes) to listserv@aicalist.org.au
If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message
is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately, then destroy the original message.
Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except where the sender is specifically authorised
by Adventist HealthCare Limited to state that they are the views of Adventist HealthCare Limited.
_____________________________________________________________________
This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Symantec Hosted Services
Scanning Services – powered by MessageLabs. For further information
visit http://www.messagelabs.com
MESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.
The use of trade/product/commercial brand names through the list is discouraged by ACIPC. If you wish to discuss specific reference to products or services by brand or commercial names, please do this outside the list.
Archive of all messages are available at http://aicalist.org.au/archives – registration and login required.
Replies to this message will be directed back to the list. To create a new message send an email to acipclist@acipc.org.au
To send a message to the list administrator send an email to admin@acipc.org.au
You can unsubscribe manually from this list by sending ‘signoff acipclist’ (without the quotes) to listserv@aicalist.org.au