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Aged Care Association: Lesson series

Infection prevention and control practices in aged residential care

This webinar explored essential infection prevention and control practices in aged residential care, including how infections are transmitted, the use of standard and transmission-based precautions, environmental hygiene, reporting and documentation requirements, and how to define and identify an outbreak.
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Why is this course important

Effective infection prevention and control is essential in aged residential care, where infections can spread quickly and have serious consequences for residents. This course will help participants understand how infections are transmitted, apply the appropriate precautions, maintain a hygienic care environment, complete accurate reporting and documentation, and identify potential outbreaks early. These practical skills help reduce infection risks and protect residents, staff and visitors.

Course Lessons

Meet the instructor

Carrie Spinks

Carrie is an experienced infection prevention control consultant, holding a BSc (RN), a Master of Science (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) and a Master of Advanced Practice (Infection Prevention and Control). In addition, she has post graduate qualifications in chemotherapy, gastroenterology/endoscopy, genetics, immunisation, and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.  

As a registered nurse Carrie has experience across many healthcare settings in both Australia and the UK – where she became a Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Endoscopists. For the past 17 years she has specialised in aged care management, quality/governance and infection prevention and control.

Carrie is a full time member of the ACIPC Team as an IPC Consultant and also facilitates and develops aged care content for the ACIPC’s IPC Foundations (FIPC) course, ACIPC IPC Aged Care short course. Carrie is passionate about IPC and especially strengthening the aged care sector; she believes the future is bright with ongoing research, technological advances, and new knowledge bringing practice change in so many areas. 
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