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We only access the AIR for vaccination information with consent from the individual. Usually for staff having difficulty with the MyGov portal.
Staff are required to provide the vaccination information to us.
CoralieKind Regards
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Please consider the environment before printing this emailHi all are you routinely accessing AIR for staffs COVID vaccination status? Thanks Jenny Jenny McCarthy Infection Prevention and Control Coordinator p | 5132 1200 e | ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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Hi all are you routinely accessing AIR for staffs COVID vaccination status?
Thanks JennyJenny McCarthy
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Hi All
I would also be interested if such a tool is available.
We are seeing staff developing what appears to be allergy an/or rash/acne with the on going prolonged wearing of the provided surgical mask plus the pressure issue that come with some N95/P2 masks
Coralie
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Please consider the environment before printing this emailDear Brains trust, I was wondering if anyone has a Skin assessment tool for mask wears that they are happy to share? Thank you in advance, Holly Holly Dodd | Clinical Nurse Educator ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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Dear Brains trust,
I was wondering if anyone has a Skin assessment tool for mask wears that they are happy to share?
Thank you in advance,
Holly
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At this time there is no Victorian mandate for Fluvax for Aged Care or Acute. It is recommended that organisation aim for 100%Coralie
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Please consider the environment before printing this emailHi all I think this might currently be state specific? Cannot see a Commonwealth mandate at this stage. Can anyone confirm if Victoria is following this requirement? Thanks Michael Michael Wishart ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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Hi all
I think this might currently be state specific? Cannot see a Commonwealth mandate at this stage. Can anyone confirm if Victoria is following this requirement?
Thanks
MichaelMichael Wishart | Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E
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Hi Jill
It would appear flu vax is mandatory from 3 May see Health Direction 26 (https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/legislation/cho-public-health-directions-under-expanded-public-health-act-powers/aged-care)
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HiRe aged care influenza vaccination does anyone know if this mandatory for 2021
If so are you able to please provide a linkThank you
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We have been using the attached video that aligns with the DHHS posters for Aerosol and droplet (plus contact)
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CoralieCoralie Tyrrell | Clinical Nurse Consultant Infection Prevention & Control Monday-Thursday P: 03 56230625 | E: coralie.tyrrell@wghg.com.au
West Gippsland Healthcare Group | 41 Landsborough Street | Warragul Vic 3820 | http://www.wghg.com.auWGHG strives to attract and retain a highly talented learning workforce that engages with a level of pride and passion in improving the health and wellbeing of its community
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Please consider the environment before printing this emailFrom: ACIPC Infexion Connexion [mailto:ACIPCLIST@ACIPC.ORG.AU] On Behalf Of Ruth McDonald
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] donning and doffing instructionsHello all
I hope everyone is keeping safe and wellI am overseeing PPE education in our organisation. I would like to standardise the donning and doffing instructions and also provide a donning and doffing script for each of our stations. Does anyone have any resources in regards to this that they would be prepared to share. We are currently using the DHHS posters which I note do not have a hand hygiene reminder between each doffing stage.
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Hi John
We have been advised by our OH&S manager of the requirements.
Attached is the incident notification form as provided for use.Coralie
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Worksafe are now contacting Health Care Facilities for information regarding assessments and actions taken following a workplace COVID-19 exposure. To date communications in our hospital have been verbal between the OH&S team and the Worksafe Officer. However, it would be better to stream line the IC assessment/actions taken to be reported back to Worksafe. Has anyone already developed a template to provide information to Worksafe? If yes could you please share of line?Kind regards,
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The Victorian government established a program for testing asymptomatic individuals as part of developing the road map to reduce restriction for isolation.
It was very clear that asymptomatic individuals were not required to self isolate pending results. The program has tested over 150,000 Victorians in 2 weeks.
The Victorian Government is continuing this program until 1st June with the target of testing another 150,000 residents in that time frame.
Again voluntary and no requirement to self-isolate after an asymptomatic test. The increased numbers being tested has increased turn around times to around 5 days for all COVID tests at my hospital.Coralie Tyrrell | Manager Infection Prevention & Control Monday-Thursday P: 03 56230625 | E: coralie.tyrrell@wghg.com.au
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Please consider the environment before printing this emailHi Jenny,
I wonder why this HCW was accepted for testing if they were symptom free? Maybe each jurisdiction are doing their own thing in this regard. In Tasmania, this person would not have met testing criteria if no symptoms and no other risk factors for COVID-19
If this HCW has symptoms or are a confirmed close contact of a COVID-19 case or have other risk factors for COVID-19 then they should wait until their results are available.
Interested to understand more about the decision to test this HCW.
Kind regards
Rachel……………………………………………………………………………..
Rachel Thomson
Nurse Unit ManagerInfection Prevention & Control Unit
Royal Hobart Hospital
Tasmanian Health Organisation-South*: 03 6166 7882/ 6166 8658
Level 4, H Block
48 Liverpool Street
Hobart, 7000Hi all
I have a staff member who is feeling quite well but decided to be tested for COVID-19 at one of the shopping centre testing areas they have set up. She assumed she would have a result within 2 days but has been told it may be up to a week. One of my colleagues has told her she cannot return to work until she has her result – does this sound right to everyone?
Thanks in advance for your expertise and comments
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Our organization has continued to use the LOCAL Audit within the Audit program in parallel with our National schedule. When undertaking a “local” audit we will step in as appropriate and with discretion (rather than name and shame) immediately the issue has been identified. We will discuss the missed opportunity and perhaps troubleshoot the clinical practice issue at the time.
These audits are not counted in our National data and allow us to give instant feed back to the individual when a missed opportunity has been observed. This has been well received across the range of health professional and as feedback is given in real time appears to have had an impact on compliance.
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CoralieCoralie Tyrrell | Manager Infection Prevention & Control Monday-Thursday| P: 03 56230625 | E: coralie.tyrrell@wghg.com.au
West Gippsland Healthcare Group | 41 Landsborough Street | Warragul Vic 3820 | http://www.wghg.com.au”WGHG strives to attract and retain a highly talented learning workforce that engages with a level of pride and passion in improving the health and wellbeing of its community”
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Please consider the environment before printing this email[Posted on behalf of a member who prefers to remain anonymous, for obvious reasons – reply to the list and they will see the responses. If anyone would like to provide a response direct to the member can do so by emailing me directly at michael.wishart@svha.org.au.
Thanks, Moderator]One of our leadership group, has directed this office to develop a tool for the HH auditors to collect the names of staff that do not adhere to correct HH moments. The staff names are then to be provided to the Nurse managers for the follow-up to be done by them. We have expressed our dismay at this tone of management and in a word we were dismissed with our concerns.
This is in response to ongoing low HH compliance rates, and instead of supporting the program this will completely obliterate it and encourage incorrect data entry and we will lose the auditors.
I am asking for some suggestions on how to manage this suggestion and also key suggestions how we can gain traction.
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I note this email discussion with interest.
Whilst it is commonsense to have clean hair, tied back (dreadlocks or not) I am struggling to provide any guidelines (other than surgical attire and food services) that actually outlines the requirement for hair management in health care.
Lots of reference to nails limited reference to uniform.
Grateful if anyone can direct me to actual research and/or guidelines regarding hair.Coralie
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Our uniform policy also states that hair that reaches the collar must be tied back. It does not specify that it must be above the collar. I have long hair and generally put it up in a pony tail when I am working. I hope this person is achieving their dreadlocks in a clean manner rather than by not washing their hair at all because that is just yuck. Either way if your policy is above the collar and back then the onus is on the staff member to achieve that. If we start watering down policies we get on a very slippery slope and people will just decide to not follow policies they don’t agree with.
As far as the dermal piercings go we cannot prevent staff from self expression. The issue with them would be if they inadvertently touch them whilst they are caring for patients as the science shows that ear and nose piercings have an increased biological load and we could extrapolate that to other piercings.
Now as for the nails there have been incidences of artificial nails linked to neonatal deaths. The jury is still out on the shellac as there have not been much in the way of studies. It has been postulated that the UV curing reduces the biological load between the nail and the shellac. Fresh nail polish (2mm are linked to higher biological load and reduced cleaning efficiency than nail polish probably due to the difficulty getting under the nails to clean properly.
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Thanks Kathy
I forgot to mention that the staff member is a Registered Nurse.
As well as the potential infection control issues, I also wondered about the Work Health and Safety aspect with long hair/dreadlock and the long hair getting caught in some of the machinery (lifters, electronic beds etc) that we use.
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Hi Linda,
Our uniform policy states the same as yours short hair or if long tied back when working, dreadlock’s I believe are an infection risk because they can not be tied up adequately when they are that long. Our staff have an obligation to adhere to the uniform policy to be employed at the hospital. Having said that we have a lot of staff with dermal piercings in different spots, and artificial nails with shellac or SNS is also a problem. Not sure how we are going to police these things. So in short no I don’t think the policy encompases dreadlock hair!!
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Just wondering if anyone has a policy that covers dreadlock hair.
We have a staff member whose dreadlocks have grown very long (when left long they are past her shoulders down her back) and are too long and big to wrap into a bun.
Our currently hospital policy is that hair should be above shoulder height and that long/medium length hair must be tied back.
My feeling is that they need to be trimmed to a shorter length but welcome any thoughts on this?
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Hi Cate
We had a similar anecdotal allergy to a HH product that was resulting in a staff member unable to work clinically due to the state of her hands.
Without confirmed sensitivity testing it is really impossible to put in place a specific risk management plan.
Our staff member on expert testing was actually found to be sensitive to many chemical/product from her home and only one from the work place.
This testing and advise enabled us to work with her to reduce exposures both at home and at work leading to significant improvement in her hand condition and her ability to work with little time off.
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Hoping to get your advice on staff with an allergy to Alcohol in ABHR . ICU would like to employee a nurse form NZ who has an allergy to ABHR and Latex gloves. The gloves are no problem as we use latex free gloves however I am not aware of non alcohol hand rub that meets EN1500 testing standard. The person is currently using Alcohol Free Hand Sanitising Foam By Reynard Health Services which is TGA approved as a cosmetic product. It is not TGA approved as a hand hygiene product.
ICU are insistent on employing the nurse as they believe handwashing is a viable option for 5 moment of hand Hygiene which Infection Prevention and Control unit do not endorse , Alice Springs has very hard water and hand issues are a problem from time to time .
There has been no assessment by dermatologist or formal report provided regarding this sensitivity.
Can you if you have experience with clinical staff who are unable to use AHBR and what are the options?
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Hi Mandy
We use an independent Biomedical service to complete all our annual validations for our reprocessing equipment. Sterilizers, Instrument washers, drying cabinet, ultrasonic washer and heat sealer.
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Hello brains trust,
I am seeking information about what different organisations do for the performance qualification (PQ) aspect of the annual validation for the reprocessing of reusable medical devices. The standards mention that this can be performed by “suitably trained in-house personnel or a suitably experienced and qualified external contractor.”
So the question is do you do this yourself in house? Or do you contract out?
If you do this in house – would be prepared to share how you report this?
If you contract out – can you share details of the contractor offline please?
I am curious about a contracted service, historically this seems to have been part of the service provided by the equipment supplier. I wonder if this is a conflict of interest? I have also noted that the reports generated by the supplier tend to only focus on the equipment supplied and not on the ‘whole of RMD process’ which is going to be the requirement.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated and information received will be treated confidentially and with respect.
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Hi Helen
As we prepare for Accreditation late in2019 this would be something that I would be very happy to access if someone has already developed a template.
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Subject: [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] Terms of ref and agendas for Standard 3 meetingsHi all,
Does anyone have any terms of reference for their Standard 3/Infection Control meetings that they would like to send me please? I am in the process of merging our monthly IC committee meetings with Standard 3 committee meetings and need to implement the TOR for this. Also, if you have meeting agenda templates which set out the meeting as per the standards, that would be good too, thanks.
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Hi Fiona
We are in the same predicament. We have procedures for the use of Transvaginal probes in our but not the ones used esp for PIVC which is becoming a very regular practice.
I will be interested in the responses that are sent.
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We are currently developing a policy / procedure for the reprocessing of external ultrasound transducers used in our ED and Ward areas for activities such as PIVC insertion, abdominal ultrasound, bladder scans etc.
Does anyone have anything in place already that they would be willing to share with us?
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