[Lenora Leonard]

Thank you to all the organisers of the IPC Ireland 2024 National Conference – Emer Ward, Margaruite O’Connor, Jincy Jerry, Tracy Doherty & Alison Maguinness (I hope I’m not missing anyone). The two day event (AGM, dinner & conference) was very successful and a great networking opportunity and educational event.

Looking forward to CPD day in October 2024.

Kind Regards
Lenora
Beacon Hospital

[Lenora Leonard]

Hello Emer

Great to hear about the upcoming IPC Ireland Conference.

As an FYI, I am not receiving any emails from the IPC Ireland website and its only when I log on that I catch-up. I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem.

Kind regards
Lenora
Beacon Hospital

[Lenora Leonard]

Hello Josephine

We’re looking at disposable Hijabs for theatre but have not made a decision yet. In relation to BBE it is vey difficult to get staff to comply with such a simply and straight forward recommendation. I encourage the ward managers and IPC Champions to prompt staff at handover each morning.

Summer time is the worst time for compliance due to wedding & holidays, the nail polish is very prevalent then 🙂

If anyone has any advice, I would gladly like to hear of it also.

Regards
Lenora
Beacon Hospital

[Lenora Leonard]

Hi Terry

We have advocated the use of masks in high risk areas in the hospital (but we have not made it mandatory) as follows:
Oncology ward
Oncology day unit
Infusion suite
ICU
Emergency Department.

There is definitely an increase in COVID and to protect patients and staff we introduced this measure. We will review the situation in the community and make changes as required.

Regards
Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Hi Tracy

I think ours is similar. I first based ours on the old ICNA environmental hygiene audit tools and over the years have made some changes. We have now developed an online tool in FLEX and have adapted the audit tool for different areas such as theatre.

I’ve enclosed the basic audit tool we use.

Regards
Lenora

Attachments:

1. IPC-Environment-Audit-Tool-2023.pdf

[Lenora Leonard]

Hi Alison, not sure where else the clinical guideline is published but the link is also up on twitter @IPCI5.

Happy reading.

Regards
Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Hello Brona

Catching up with posts and was interested in this. How have you got on with biodegradable gloves? Were you able to source some? Are they user friendly?

Regards
Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Thank you Emer for your response.

This is what we do also but the company have now brought out a c-circuit without the single use symbol and state it can be used for 7 days on different patients as long as a filter on it for each patient. I’m just nervous about reusing it as with the corrugated tubing it is difficult to clean externally between patients.
Anyone else have any advice?

Regards
Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Thank you Emer for your advice.

[Lenora Leonard]

Good morning Emer

What was the outcome of your above query? It seems to be going that way now that even non invasive U/S probes require a higher level of decontamination than a wipe.

Regards
Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Good morning, Tracy

We are accepting the COVID antigen test from the staff member and no PCR required.

Regards

Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Thank you IPC Ireland (Emer, Margaruite & Helen) for a very educational CPD day recently.  It was especially great to see everyone face-to-face again.

Regards

Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Good morning Brona

We use stainless steel for sinks and sluice hoppers in the Dirty Utility but I don’t have a reference for same.

But I wanted to mention we had lids made for the sluice hopper in the dirty utility to prevent aerosolisation when it was flushed.  This happened a few years ago after the increase in CPE nationally.

Kind regards

Lenora

Beacon Hospital

[Lenora Leonard]

Good morning Noeleen

Thank you for your reply.  This is a very good suggestion for the Education lead which I’ll pass on.  Natalia & I try to keep SHARP more of a social Newsletter and to improve networking among colleagues.

Have a good day.

Regards

Lenora

[Lenora Leonard]

Hi Tracy

You replied to my query under “Latest Activity” which does not seem to link back to the specific discussion forum.  But it does work the other way around i.e. reply in the discussion forum and it links back to “Latest Activity”.

Regards

Lenora

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