Audience:

• Health professionals working in general practice, pharmacies or other primary health care settings.

Presenter:

• Margaret Jennings, Microbiologist and Infection Prevention & Control Educator/Consultant to Office Based Practice, Community Health & Aged Care

Topics:

• Airborne spread, and how to use your surgical mask to maximum effect in general practice;
• Has complacency set in? What does it take to keep staff on message? Some current statistics;
• Are you using precautions effectively to support the COVID normal running of your clinic – here’s my checklist?
• A brief review of the current vaccines and how they each work. How big is asymptomatic infection?
• Avoid turning your vaccination clinic into a superspreading event – my tips for immunisers to keep vaccination clinics safe for all;
• More about quarantine;
• Why vaccination is critical.

Learning outcomes:

1. List infection prevention measures used in general practice
2. Explain how surgical masks are used in primary health care settings for infection prevention and control

Related pathways:

Murray HealthPathways related to this CPD include:

• COVID-19 Practice Management
• COVID-19 Vaccination
• Infection Prevention and Control.

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