Tuesday 2nd October 2012

Time

Hall 1A

Hall 1B

Hall 1C

08.00 - 09.00

 

Session 15

Meet the experts

Develop your research skills by meeting the experts

Professor Judith Tanner, Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, De Montfort University

 

Dr David Jenkins, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 

 

Objectives are to:

  • explore how to turn your ideas into a research study
  • identify what support is available
  • discuss whether there is funding out there

Session 16

Meet the experts

How to investigate and manage an outbreak: an interactive session

Dr Tim Boswell, Consultant Medical Microbiologist & Infection Control Doctor, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

 

Martin Kiernan, Nurse Consultant, Infection Prevention, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

 

Objectives are to:

  • provide participants with the general principles of investigating and managing outbreaks
  • demonstrate how these general principles can be used successfully when faced with an unusual and unexpected outbreak situation

09.00 - 09.30

Session 17

Role of ECDC

Dr. Anna-Pelagia Magiorakos, ECDC, Stockholm Sweden

 

The objectives are to:

  • confirm who ECDC are and what their main activities are
  • discuss what are the current infection prevention and control (IPC) challenges and projects that ECDC is working on

 

Session 18

Too posh to wash

Martin Kiernan, Nurse Consultant, Infection Prevention, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

 

The objectives are to:

  • review the literature around non-specialists undertaking cleaning activities
  • examine the role of non-specialists in cleaning
  • discuss education of non-specialists

 

Supported by an educational grant from Gama Healthcare

 

09.35 - 10.05

Session 19

The effectiveness of national HCAI programmes

Claire Kilpatrick, Nurse Consultant, WHO World alliance for Patient Safety

 

Objectives are to:

  • explore the impact of national HCAI programmes
  • evaluate the effectiveness of care bundles on patient outcomes

Session 20

Healthcare ‘risk’ waste management: In sight, out of mind? 

Edward Krisiunas, President, WNWN International

 

Objectives are to:

  • identify the risks of ‘risk’ waste: what does the literature provide?
  • identify the challenges to healthcare practitioners e.g. infection prevention from a global perspective
  • utilise healthcare waste management resources enumerated in the presentation to apply to practice

 

10.10 - 10.45

Session 21

How do we know infection prevention works?

Dr David Jenkins, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 

 

Objectives are to:

  • gain an understanding of how to interpret infection prevention interventions
  • appreciate how to judge whether interventions really work
  • apply sound methods to literature reviews and your own practice

Session 22

The implementation of the European Sharps Directive

Ian Lindsley, Director, European Biosafety Network

 

The objectives are to:

  • understand the implications of the European Sharps Directive
  • appreciate the challenges faced by organisations
  • identify sustainable solutions to implementation

Session 23

The use of social marketing in health

Gina Banns, OxfordSM

 

The objectives are to:

  • describe the principles of social marketing
  • identify examples of how social marketing has been used to influence human behaviour, improve health and benefit society
  • consider how social marketing principles may be applied to infection prevention

10.45 - 11.30

REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

11.30 - 12.05

Session 24

Improving quality during times of transition

Professor Ian Cumming OBE, National Director for Quality During Transition, National Quality Team

 

The objectives are to:

  • understand the importance of continual quality improvement
  • appreciate the challenges faced improving quality during time of transition
  • understand the processes and systems required to ensure high quality care is delivered during transition to a new healthcare system

Session 25

An ethnographic study of infection prevention and control in a mental health trust

Dr Julie Hughes, Nurse Consultant/Senior Lecturer, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust/University of Chester

 

The objectives are to:

  • gain an in depth study of the challenges involved in complying with infection prevention in a mental health trust
  • gain an insight into the role of leadership, role models and organisational structure within infection prevention and control
  • identify the educational/training preparation and the needs of healthcare workers in relation to infection prevention and control and make recommendations for practice

Session 26

IPS Research award winners x2

12.10 - 12.45

Session 27

Oral papers x2

Session 28

Oral Papers x2

Session 29

Oral Papers x2

12.45 – 14.15

REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

14.20 - 14-55

Session 30

Poster Viewing in designated poster viewing area

15.00 – 15.35

Session 31

Patient Involvement - A requirement for patient safety

Margaret Murphy, Steering Group Member, Patient for Patient Safety, World Health Organisation (WHO)

 

The objectives are to:

  • define patient involvement and engagement in the 21st century
  • outline some key examples of failures in patient involvement that can lead to patient harm, including HCAI
  • outline some key examples of patient involvement successes and how these can be achieved by healthcare workers every day

Session 32

Vaccine preventable diseases, global challenges and solutions

Joanne Yarwood, Head of Implementation – Immunisation, Department of Health

 

The objectives are to understand the following:

  • the  role  of  vaccines in reducing infectious disease, and the benefits to the individual and wider public health
  • the  role  of  the  healthcare  professional  in  promoting  and delivering immunization
  • challenges faced when dealing with different cultures
  • vaccine developments to address Infectious Disease adversaries – old and new

Session 33

IPS Research award winners

 

ATP monitoring in periods of high C. Diff incidence

Diane Tomlinson, Trust Lead Infection Prevention and Control Nurse, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

 

The patient experience of surgical site infection

Professor Judith Tanner, Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, De Montfort University

 

The objectives are to:

  • describe the methods used in each project
  • present the results of  each study
  • discuss the practice implications of the research
  • identify the limitations of the project and highlight areas of further research

15.35 - 16.20

REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

16.25 – 17.15

Session 34

Set me free - letting go of hand hygiene

Julie Storr, WHO Consultant, Imperial College London

Claire Kilpatrick, Nurse Consultant, WHO World alliance for Patient Safety

 

The objectives are to:

  • describe the current context for hand hygiene improvement and how assimilation, influenced by the field of public health and policy implementation, could lead to greater success
  • explore what we can learn from human factors, ergonomics, neurosciences and social marketing to best make hand hygiene a central and intuitive behaviour within a set of behaviours and actions that are necessary for safety, including through the use of care bundles
  • outline a blueprint for action to sustain hand hygiene integration and improvement

 

 

IPS reserves the right to amend this programme without notice.  In the event of a speaker being unable to present their paper every effort will be made to replace the speaker with an equal replacement.




 




Infection Prevention 2012  1-3 October 2012 - ACC Liverpool

 

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