Upcoming Workshops & Webinars

Event details

2:00 – 2:50pm | Friday 02 May

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. 

Event details

2:00 – 2:50pm | Friday 28 March

This webinar will focus on coping with mood and behaviour changes in older adults, addressing unmet needs with empathy and insight. We will explore the challenges and solutions for understanding and managing these changes, emphasizing the importance of caregiver resilience and staff well-being.

Key Focus Areas:

• Identifying triggers and glimmers.
• Utilising non-pharmacological approaches to enhance mood and psychological wellbeing
• Communication strategies and creating a supportive, dementia-friendly environment.

Presenter introduction: Orquidea Tamayo Mortera (She/Her) – MNZM, MProfPrac, Cert DRT, DipDemCare

Orquidea is a NZ Registered Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. She is the current president for the New Zealand Society of Diversional and Recreational Therapists Inc., and the National Therapeutic Recreation Lead for Summerset Group Holdings Ltd.

She is a national and international speaker, and a consultant in the use of models of care and support, therapeutic recreation, person centre and person lead approaches, human rights, meaningful engagement, purposeful lifestyle, complementary therapies, and non-pharmacological approaches. She has extensive experience in healthy ageing, retirement villages, aged care (dementia, hospital, rest home), community, mental health, and the disability sectors. Due to her impactful work, she has received many accolades in NZ and internationally.

She is passionate about using recreation in a meaningful and therapeutic way to enrich, optimize and enhance people’s health and wellbeing, as well as using therapeutic recreation and all that it encompasses as a prevention and rehabilitation tool. She strongly believes in supporting individual’s self-determination through meaningful experiences and person led programmes and activities that facilitate purpose, belonging and quality of life.

Her professional interest includes interprofessional, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and collaboration, ongoing education and research, technology and innovation in therapeutic recreation, recreation as a human right, leadership.

Personal interest includes walking, swimming, networking, family time, traveling, learning, movies, spanish music, cooking, ridding a bike, hugging, listen to someone’s story, social media.

• Top Strengths: Activator, Connectedness, Developer, Ideation and Positivity
• Top Qualities: Authentic, Empathetic, Compassionate, Flexible, and Adaptable
• Top Values: Trustworthiness, Resilience, Nurtures Growth, Creates feelings of togetherness and Strong Ethics and Standards