Infection Control & Infectious Disease Nurse Event
15th May 2019
This event took place at Sheffield United Football Club on 15th May 2019
The event covered the following areas (with learning outcomes shown):
Sepsis – Kirsty Goddard, Anne Baird, and Marlene Scott
Learning Outcomes:
Refresh understanding and relevance of considering sepsis in primary care consultations
Safer face to face assessment
Remote triaging: how to protect patients (and ourselves) under pressure
Wound Care Update – Kim Drewery, CNS, TVN, Manor Clinic
Learning Outcomes:
Updated understanding of differing wounds and the cause
Recommended treatment and stages of wound healing
Patient factors ie medication, age, nutrition, malnutrition, underlying disease
Infection control – including wound assessment, factors, process, diagnosis and treatment
Immunisation Update – Katie Markham, NHS England
Learning outcomes:
Have an increased knowledge and awareness of childhood 0-5 years immunisation uptake at a local level and changes to the 0-19 programme
Be able to identify opportunities for working with local partners to help reduce inequalities in uptake
Increase knowledge and awareness of the Measles and Rubella elimination strategy