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Infection control update for outreach workers | Webinar

August 20, 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Free

Presenter: Margaret Jennings, Microbiologist, Infection Prevention and Control Educator

Target audience: Support facilitators, mental health workers and other professionals providing outreach services.

Topics include:

  1. Should you be working with your clients i.e. are you immunocompromised? Alternatives
  2. How much appetite for risk do you have? Risk drivers up and down
  3. Transmission, asymptomatic/presymptomatic, infectiousness at various points in infection
  4. Self-symptom check and client/ client household symptom check - alternatives if you are symptomatic
  5. Hand hygiene ABHR (alcohol)
  6. PPE checklist when and how to use correctly
  7. Reality tips to reduce risk – what we know works as low risk
  8. Cleaning a face shield and storage
  9. Cleaning a vehicle for others use.

Click here to RSVP by 11.00am, Thursday 20 August.

Details

Date:
August 20, 2020
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/infection-control-update-for-outreach-workers-tickets-116689835439

Organiser

Murray PHN
Email
educationandnetworks@murrayphn.org.au
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Venue

Webinar