In terms of concrete implementation, she said that this meant that, “ABS measures need to be set up in clinics so that they are used in all aspects of the daily antibiotic prescribing process. To do this, knowledge on antibiotics and antimicrobial therapies must be improved for service providers. In-house guidelines on antibiotics and information on local resistance development are just first steps in this measure. Individual ABS measures need to be designed so that they are completely understandable and reproducible for the service providers, and above all so that they can be implemented easily. Data on the amounts of antibiotic used and how frequently they are used enable service providers to evaluate and adjust their own prescribing patterns”, said Lauprecht.
We’ve found the problem - we just need to remedy it
“We know that we’ve got a way to go in hospital hygiene. The issue is implementing measures”, says Dr Wolfgang Hell MD, Head of the Specialist Hygiene Service at LADR Geesthacht, in the final module. Organization is a problem in infection prevention - who does what? Hell attempts to answer this question in his speech. For him, it’s also important to scrutinize the difference between the actual conditions and the objectives with hygiene specialists and to look at this within the various contexts that different facilities provide, from hospitals to rehabilitation clinics, from outpatient clinics to doctors’ practices.
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Implementing hygiene measures without coming up against communicative resistance
The day will come to a close with an awareness session on the communication situations with a view to providing strategic and sustainable implementation of important infection prevention measures. Birgit Jacobowsky, Social Psychologist and Coach, will play out different scenarios that we see in hospitals and practices every day and will demonstrate different types of communication and the effect and significance they have. Communicating about implementing hygiene measures without meeting with resistance is the goal that all participants in this workshop will try to achieve!
For further information about the MEDICA ACADEMY program: http://www.medica.de/ma2
Author: Nina Passoth, life sciences communications (Berlin, Germany)
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