Infection Prevention and Control - Still Achieving Best Practice (Oct 30, 2024)
Infection Prevention and Control - Still Achieving Best Practice is organized by ADA NSW Centre for Professional Development and will be held on Oct 30, 2024 at ADA NSW Centre for Professional Development, St leonards, New South Wales, Australia. This In-Person Event has been approved for a maximum of 6.5 Hours.
Topics include:
• IPC* regulatory landscape and professional obligations for dental practitioners in Australia
• Managing IPC risk to practise in a way that minimises the spread of infection
• Accountability for IPC in a dental setting to ensure good clinical outcomes
• The required elements for the transmission of infection
• The two-tiered approach to achieve successful IPC
• Got a Moment? Getting hand hygiene under control
• Streamlining criteria for escalating care with surgical aseptic technique
• Managing Reprocessable Medical Devices (RMDs)
• Clarify Dental Unit Water Line (DUWL) management protocols
*Infection Prevention and Control
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the Australian professional, legal, and regulatory requirements for IPC
• See how various business models in dentistry impact the strategic direction of IPC program objectives
• Gain awareness of contemporary tools, documents, and resources to support practitioner self-reflection and good infection control
• Learn about relevant risk management frameworks applicable to a dental setting
• Understand the conditions that foster the spread of infectious disease and learn how to ‘Break the Chain’
• Understand Standard and Transmission Based Precautions and when and how to apply
• Gain confidence for applying the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene in a dental setting
• Streamline decision making for when surgical aseptic technique would be applied
• Reflect on your approach and identify quality improvement opportunities for RMD management; and
• Understand key terminology for DUWLs and how this relates to action back at the practice.
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.
