Time

IV Programme

08.30

Exhibition Viewing

Exploring new developments in hand hygiene (preliminary title)

 Professor John Boyce, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases Section, Director of Hand Hygiene Resource Centre, Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Have, Connecticut, USA

The objectives are to:

- Introduce new approaches to hand hygiene education and motivation for healthcare workers
- Discuss innovative approaches to monitoring hand hygiene compliance and practices
- Explain Novel technologies under development for sanitizing healthcare worker hands

Supported by an educational grant from GOJO

The future of anti-infectives and the threat of a post-antibiotic era

Professor Roger Finch, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Nottingham

The objectives are to:
- Briefly discuss the global challenge faced with the over use of anti-infectives
- Explore the future role of antibiotics
- Discuss the post antibiotic era and potential for other therapies  

  Poster walk

11.10 - 11.45

Discuss the microbiology of the skin and impact on infection rates

Maurice Madeo, Deputy Director Infection Prevention and Control, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The objectives are to:

- Describe how to look good 'dressed' up, is it cotton or CHG

- Explore the use of IV dressings to help protect against line infections

- Review current evidence to prevent development of line related infection

11.50 - 12.25

Implementation of regional IV training, eduatin and competency programme

Carol Low, Lead Nurse OHPAT, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital

The objectives are to:
- Describe how Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital learned from the project?

- Explore the benefits of the regional training and educational programme

- Sustain the training programme for the future... can it become a national programme?

12.30 - 13.05

Debate: The future of ANTT in PICC placement

Micro sterile fileds - Stephen Rowley, Lead Cancer Nurse, ANTT Clinical Direct, University College

London Hospitals

VS

Large sterile field - Deborah Bolton, Clinical Nurse Specialist IV Therapy, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust

13.05

14.20 -

14.55

Reading the small print: An introduction to IV microguides

 Andrew Jackson, IV Nurse Consultant, Rotherham General Hospital

The objectives are to:

- Review how current guidelines are presented

- Examine the styles behind how practitioners access clinical guidelines

- Introduce the delegate to the concept of microguides and why they are useful

- State what a microguide is and what it is not

- Walk through and example of an IV microguide

IV Topic Free Papers x 2

See the free paper section of the website for details on how to submit an abstract for free papers and posters

Polyurethane versus silicon :the right VAD material for the right patient!

Michele Di Giacomo, Nurse Practitioner for Cancer, Royal Free NHS Trust

The objectives are to:

- Illustrating the main differences between polyurethane  and silicone PICCs

- Reviewing the most update research on PICCs materials by AVA, INS

- Briefly illustrating the objectives, methodology and outcomes of author research on 3 different PICCs

- Analysing the impact of the study in the clinical practice and future areas of improvement

Always Something New - What can we learn from Africa about infection prevention?

Julie Storr, WHO Project Manager; African Partnerships for Patient Safety in England

The objectives are to: 

- Introduce delegates to the WHO African Partnerships for Patient Safety Programme, with its strong focus on advocating action on the prevention of health care-associated infection

- Raise awareness of the mutual benefits of establishing bidirectional partnerships around patient safety and infection prevention and provide real-life examples

- Stimulate delegates to consider how the resourcefulness, innovation and energy being generated through the programme can be harnessed to the benefit of the infection prevention community locally, nationally and internationally