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Staff Health Issues, Protecting Yourself and Your Patients

CPD Listening Time:	25 Mins
Conference:	Guildance for Infection Control for all Nurses
Date Recorded:	15 Mar 2010
Location:	Brisbane, Australia

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Staff Health Issues, Protecting Yourself and Your Patients

Tuberculosis in the Australian health care setting is the subject discussed at the beginning of this session. The people most at risk of contracting tuberculosis, are identified. The appropriate precautions are outlined and discussed.
The long term problems associated with the continuous and/or overuse of antibiotics are discussed. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections are explained along with the precautionary measures needed to prevent their spread. A very informative, plain speaking session.

The main concepts explored in this session are:

Infection control
Tuberculosis
Clinical practice issues
Nurse education

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

Speaker name: Carol Rosevear
Recorded: 15 Mar 2010
Listening time: 25 Mins
Conference: Guildance for Infection Control for all Nurses
Session in Conference: Staff health issues, protecting yourself and your patients (Part3)
State: Brisbane, Australia

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