Infection Prevention and Control Achieving Best Practice Presented by Kylie Robb
DATE Thursday 28 November 2019 TIME 9.00am - 4.00pm CPD 6 clinical CPD hours VENUE ADAVB Meeting Rooms Level 3,10 Yarra Street South Yarra FEE ADA Member $330 Practice Staff $330 Non-member $440 Practice Plus $250 Subscribers INCLUDES Morning Tea & Lunch
Course Outline This course aims to build participants confidence with their Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) processes by highlighting straightforward strategies to reduce risk, ensure best practice and improve efficiency. It is suitable for the entire team.
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What are the key Infection Prevention and Control areas? What affects compliance and team performance? What is the top area of opportunity for improvement and why? When would transmission-based precautions apply? Batch control identification Clean vs Contaminated? BCI, PPE and what can go wrong in the sterilising room. Storage of instruments, the practice environment &more PPE vs Uniform – what do I have to do? Sterilising room – where do most practices go wrong? Endodontics, the lab, and handpieces – give me the facts How to complete steriliser logs; and what else do you have to monitor in the steri? • Spaulding classification and why this makes all the difference.
Learning Outcomes • Gain knowledge and confidence with the key IPC areas and learn how to implement these successfully • Understand what contemporary hand hygiene principles involve and how to apply them in a dental practice • Apply efficient strategies to reprocess instruments • Confidently set-up the treatment room for IPC success • Identify what specific testing of equipment and indicators are required • Implement an effective practice cleaning schedule.
Kylie Robb has been instrumental in advocating for best practice in infection control standards while promoting the benefits of accreditation outcomes to hundreds of practice teams in Australia. She is a member of the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control’s Education and Professional Development Committee, has a Master of Health Services Management in Clinical Leadership from the University of Technology, Sydney among many achievements. Kylie is a popular speaker, routinely presenting Infection Control and accreditation courses across Australia. Kylie is a 2019 member of the coveted Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s International Ambassador Program.
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