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Hi,
Last year, many of you participated in a piece of work exploring infection control professionals and infection control units in Australia. Part of this work was advertised on this list. On behalf of the research team, we are grateful for your assistance.
By way of feedback, I thought I would provide you with a quick update, given this list was critical to one component of the study. To date, we have two articles published from this work (summarised below), with three more in the wings. We have presented some of this work at the ACIPC conference last year, with more to come. Some work was also presented at ECCMID in Copenhagen a few weeks ago.
Our work will culminate, as planned, in a final paper describing recommended resourcing for hospital infection control units in Australia. We hope that this will occur in late this year or early next. We have considerable work to do, digesting the findings from the three different data collection processes employed.
The two papers to date:
* Roles, responsibilities and scope of practice: describing the ‘state of play’ for infection control professionals in Australia and New Zealand. Healthcare Infection (2015), 20 (1), 29-35
o This is the first study >10 years to comprehensively describe the ICP workforce in Australia and New Zealand, and their scope of practice.
o ICPs have a varied scoped of practice. Most ICPs have a large number and variety of responsibilities.
o ICPs in the private sector were more likely to operate as sole practitioners or small teams
o This article is open access i.e. free for downloading from the Healthcare Infection website.
* Hospital infection control units: Staffing, costs, and priorities. American Journal of Infection Control (2015), 43(6), 612-616
o The mean number of infection control professionals was 0.66 per 100 overnight beds (1 FTE per 152 beds)
o Approximately $76 million is allocated annually to infection control nurse staffing.
o Improved information technology systems were reported as a resource priority.
o This article can currently be viewed freely, from the AJIC website.
We will keep you updated on this project.
Kind regards
Brett
Associate Professor Brett Mitchell
Associate Professor of Nursing RN, BN, PhD, M.Adv.Prac, MRCNA
Faculty of Nursing and Health
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Director, Lifestyle Research Centre, Cooranbong
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Hi Brett,
Congratulations on the work undertaken.
Great to get an overview/update on the list server.
As with most other ICPs I’m looking forward to your final publication
describing recommended resourcing for hospital infection control teams in
Australia.Regards
Glenys
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Infection Control Consultancy (ICC)
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resourcingHi,
Last year, many of you participated in a piece of work exploring infection
control professionals and infection control units in Australia. Part of this
work was advertised on this list. On behalf of the research team, we are
grateful for your assistance.By way of feedback, I thought I would provide you with a quick update, given
this list was critical to one component of the study. To date, we have two
articles published from this work (summarised below), with three more in the
wings. We have presented some of this work at the ACIPC conference last
year, with more to come. Some work was also presented at ECCMID in
Copenhagen a few weeks ago.Our work will culminate, as planned, in a final paper describing recommended
resourcing for hospital infection control units in Australia. We hope that
this will occur in late this year or early next. We have considerable work
to do, digesting the findings from the three different data collection
processes employed.The two papers to date:
. Roles, responsibilities and scope of practice: describing the
‘state of play’ for infection control professionals in Australia and New
Zealand. Healthcare Infection (2015), 20 (1), 29-35o This is the first study >10 years to comprehensively describe the ICP
workforce in Australia and New Zealand, and their scope of practice.o ICPs have a varied scoped of practice. Most ICPs have a large number and
variety of responsibilities.o ICPs in the private sector were more likely to operate as sole
practitioners or small teamso This article is open access i.e. free for downloading from the
Healthcare Infection website.. Hospital infection control units: Staffing, costs, and priorities.
American Journal of Infection Control (2015), 43(6), 612-616o The mean number of infection control professionals was 0.66 per 100
overnight beds (1 FTE per 152 beds)o Approximately $76 million is allocated annually to infection control
nurse staffing.o Improved information technology systems were reported as a resource
priority.o This article can currently be viewed freely, from the AJIC website.
We will keep you updated on this project.
Kind regards
Brett
Associate Professor Brett Mitchell
Associate Professor of Nursing RN, BN, PhD, M.Adv.Prac, MRCNA
Faculty of Nursing and HealthAnd
Director, Lifestyle Research Centre, Cooranbong
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