Career safety and infection control - NASHICS
This webinar focused on safety, risk reduction and infection control for carers, and those being cared for while using care home equipment.
Learning Outcomes
- Understanding current advice and research
- How to use in various care settings
- Possible future applications
- Microbiology, in order to recognise risks in our day-to-day activity
- Using personal protective equipment to negate risks and keep everyone safe
- Safe decontamination of surfaces and equipment in care homes
- Introduction to the Empresa bed
- Reducing risk of bed fall injury
- Safer for the caregiver
Meet our Experts
Jenny is a senior occupational therapist. She qualified in 1997 and completed her MSc in Neuro-rehabilitation in 2007. She has worked in Neurological Rehabilitation at the Battle Hospital in Reading, and the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford which became part of the Oxford Centre for Enablement in 2000. She moved into the Specialist Disability Service at the OCE from where she joined the Oxford MND Centre in January 2007.
Since August 2009 Jenny has been funded full-time by the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association to develop NHS wheelchair services across the UK, to improve wheelchair provision for people living with MND.
Evonne’s infection control career began late in 1987. From 2006 until September 2015 she led the outbreak programme of work at Health Protection Scotland. She is now an independent nurse consultant for infection prevention and control.
Trudy is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), a Member of International Institute of Risk and Safety Management, and also a Member of the Institute for Learning. Trudy has over 25 years experience in health and safety management, working in enforcement, private sectors, retail and warehouse, consultancy and health and social care.
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