Event details
3:00 – 3:50pm | Friday 25 April
This webinar will explore key infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in aged residential care.
Key Focus Areas:
- The relationship between organisms, infections and modes of transmission
- Standard and transmission precautions to minimise infection risks
- Environmental hygiene
- Reporting, and documentation
- Outbreak definitions and identification
Presenter introduction: Carrie Spinks
Carrie is an experienced infection prevention control consultant, holding a BSc (RN), a Master of Science (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) and a Master of Advanced Practice (Infection Prevention and Control). In addition, she has post graduate qualifications in chemotherapy, gastroenterology/endoscopy, genetics, immunisation, and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
As a registered nurse Carrie has experience across many healthcare settings in both Australia and the UK – where she became a Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Endoscopists. For the past 17 years she has specialised in aged care management, quality/governance and infection prevention and control.
Carrie is a full time member of the ACIPC Team as an IPC Consultant and also facilitates and develops aged care content for the ACIPC’s IPC Foundations (FIPC) course, ACIPC IPC Aged Care short course. Carrie is passionate about IPC and especially strengthening the aged care sector; she believes the future is bright with ongoing research, technological advances, and new knowledge bringing practice change in so many areas.
