Update: Infection Prevention / Control in Nursing Practice

CPD Listening Time:	15 Mins
Conference:	Guildance for Infection Control for all Nurses
Date Recorded:	15 Mar 2010
Location:	Brisbane, Australia

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Update: Infection Prevention / Control in Nursing Practice

This dynamic and interactive session includes a discussion of the different types of needle-stick injuries that can occur in nursing practice. Particular focus is made on the different types of risks involved.
The precautions taken in renal dialysis when a patient has a blood-borne virus is analysed and the relevance of segregating patients is explored. This session concludes with a discussion of this practice.

The main concepts explored in this session are:

Infection control
Renal dialysis
Clinical practice issues
Needle-stick injury
Nurse education

Carol Rosevear is a registered nurse with extensive experience in infection control. Carol is a qualified and highly experienced infection control nurse. Carol is currently employed in a high dependency unit in an acute care hospital in Victoria. Carol is also a partner in a private infection control consulting service.

Speaker name: Carol Rosevear
Recorded: 15 Mar 2010
Listening time: 15 Mins
Conference: Guildance for Infection Control for all Nurses
Session in Conference: Staff health issues, protecting yourself and your patients (Part2)
State: Brisbane, Australia

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