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Aged Care IPC Workshop 2025
Circles of Influence – Advancing Safe Care, Connections & Confidence
Date: Sunday 16 November
9:00 AM – 4.30 PM
Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart
Morning tea and lunch provided
A Day of Inspiration and Practical Learning
Join us for a dynamic day packed with interactive workshops, collaboration, and fresh ideas in aged care. Perfect for IPC nurses/leads, doctors, allied health, public health, academics, and leaders. Strengthen your skills, build confidence, and deliver care with compassion and excellence.
10.15 – 10. 45 | Vision of IPC in Aged Care
Adjunct Professor Alison McMillan
10:45 – 12:15 | Gentle Shield – Compassionate IPC for Cognitive Impairment
Perri Waddell, Nicole Smith & Carrie Spinks
Discover how IPC can be compassionate and person-centred. Using the Open the Doors and CHA models, learn to reframe dementia care around ability, inclusion, and dignity. Join a hands-on team activity to break the chain of infection while keeping safety and personhood intact. It can co-exist.
13:00 – 14:30 | The Aseptic Edge – Mastering Wound and Skin Care (Home Care Focus)
Hayley Ryan, Tanesha Sant & Lainy Taylor
Sharpen your wound and skin care skills with a home/community care focus (applicable anywhere!). This practical session covers aseptic technique, clinical governance, and infection prevention, providing tools to improve outcomes, comfort, and dignity while reducing avoidable hospitalisations.
15:00 – 16:15 | The A-PRECISE Study – PReventing infECtions In reSidential agEd care
Phillip Russo, Karen Harris & Helen Rawson
Learn from the MRFF-supported A-PRECISE study — a co-designed IPC model developed with residents, families, and staff. Discover practical ways to embed co-design in your service and create effective, person-centred IPC strategies that last.
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