IPC Practice in Home Care

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 2.00PM AEDT

Speaker: Irene Barron, IPC Manager, Silver Chain 

IPC Practice in Home Care

The presentation provides an overview of a comprehensive infection prevention and control program tailored towards home care. Home care can be delivered where the client is living or at a clinic. The primary goal is to deliver safe, high-quality care, facilitate discharge from acute care settings, and to help support people to continue living at home. Care may include general or specialised medical care involving physicians, nursing or allied health professionals, as well as social or community-based services provided by carers that support activities of daily living. 

About the speaker: Irene is a Registered Nurse who graduated in 1990. She has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Infection Control, Master of Nursing, and is an Expert credentialled infection control professional (CICP-E). Irene started working in infection control in 1999. Her infection control career includes working as practitioner, coordinator and then 4years as Assistant Director of the Infection Control team at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, a 1000 bed acute care hospital located in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Upon her return to Australia, she worked as the infection control and staff heath nurse for the SA Health Dental unit, and then for the last 6 years as Manager of the infection prevention and control team at Silverchain. Silverchain provides health and aged care services Australia-wide to 140,000 clients per year, with 5,900 staff including nurses, doctors, allied health, carers and researchers. It sees clients in both metropolitan and country locations. What Irene says she enjoys most about IPC is that she is continually learning and feels that her contribution to the profession is helping to keep staff, clients and their families safe. She feels there is more to learn and achieve within this specialised field and hopes her passion for IPC inspires others.

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Webinar PowerPoint Resources 

PP Irene Barron IPC in Home Care: https://www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Irene-Barron-home-care-March-25.pptx