Lunch, Poster Session and Exhibition

Thursday, 9 October 2008 12:30 - 13:30, Olympic Room and Betty Cuthbert Lounge

Medical waste management in hospitals in China: A case study in Shandong Province
  • Ruoyan Gai, Department of Health Policy & Planning, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Japan
MRSA - What Sites Should We Screen?
  • Brett Mitchell, Tasmanian Infection Prevention & Control Unit
Infection control interventions reduces chances of contracting HIV and AIDS in health care setting in Kenya-2007
  • Ishepe I Nandili, MOH/NASCOP, Kenya
Of Droughts and Flooding Rains: Infection Control following flood events. Where's the evidence?
  • Matt Mason, Bairnsdale Regional Health Service
Healthcare-associated infection in Shiraz, Iran 2004-2005
  • Saba Lahsaeizadeh, United States
Reducing MSSA/MRSA Bacteraemia Rates
  • Brett Mitchell, Tasmanian Infection Prevention & Control Unit
ViBES 3 years on.......and counting
  • Sue M King, Victorian Blood Exposure Surveillance (ViBES)
A survey of Nurses' perceptions and product choices of the infected wound
  • Ann Marie Dunk, Research Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Practice, ACT Health
An Aussie Adaption of a WHO hand Hygiene Initiative
  • Kaye E Bellis, Hand Hygiene Victoria
Developing infection control competencies for newly graduating nurses in Australia and Taiwan
  • Lesley L M Liu, University of Wollongong/Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Culturally Appropriate Isolation Signage in Central Australia
  • Melinda L Griffiths, Alice Springs Hospital
Incidence of nosocomial infections in the picu
  • Gentian Kasmi, LABORATORY DEPARTMENT,SERVICE OF MICROBIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTER"MOTHER TEREZA" TIRANA,ALBANIA, Albania
  • Irena Kasmi, PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT HOSPITAL "MOTHER TEREZA"TIRANA ,ALBANIA, Albania
Wash, Wipe Cover...don't infect another! the genesis of a Statewide Hand & Respiratory Hydience Campaign
  • Linda Henderson, Department of Health, South Australia
Demystifying the Disposable vs Reusable Sharps Container Debate
  • Cathryn L Murphy, Faculty of Health Science and Medicine, Bond University, Queensland
Intravenous Therapy- Expert Nurses develop IV therapy Assessment tools for improved bedside IV device management
  • Sue Gonelli, Vascular Access nurse, Alfred Hospital, VIC
A 'Legislated' Infection Control Management Plan
  • David J Gunderson, Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention
Promoting safety cannulation
  • Elizabeth E Gillespie, Southern Health
Vaccine preventable diseases in a combined Paediatric / Adult Intensive Care Unit
  • Anita Lovegrove, Southern Health
Improving Infusion Management at the bedside
  • Fiona J Stewart, Westmead Hospital,Sydney ,NSW
Beating preventable bloodstream infections
  • Penelope C Leszkiewicz, Southern Health
Healthcare Associated Staphylococcus aureus BSI - A Statewide Mandate
  • Rebecca L McCann, Healthcare Associated Infection Unit; Communicable Disease Control Directorate; Department of Health Western Australia
  • Helen Van Gessel, Healthcare Associated Infection Unit; Communicable Disease Control Directorate; Department of Health Western Australia
MRSA : USA 300 - Emergence and Follow-up in WA
  • Helen Van Gessell, Healthcare Associated Infection Unit';Communicable Disease Control Directorate; Department of Health Western Australia
  • Rebecca McCann, Healthcare Associated Infection Unit';Communicable Disease Control Directorate; Department of Health Western Australia
Viral Gastro: Put up or shut down
  • Kathryn L Williams, Melbourne Health
Tasmanian Infection Prevetion & Control Unit
  • Brett Mitchell, Tasmanian Infection Prevention & Control Unit, Department of Health & Human Services
Ring Ring - Infection Control Calling (Post discharge Surgical Site Surveillance at Canberra Hospital ACT Australia)
  • Dianne E Dreimanis