Educational Webinar Be Agents of Change for Better I.V. Care Join 3M for a free online learning session with Professor Cath Murphy, as part of 3M’s Vascular Access Solutions Program. Designed specifically to help clinicians become effective agents of change for better I.V. care. Date: Wednesday 29th October 2014 Duration Time Location Duration 90min 1.00pm - 2.30pm/2.45pm AEST Brisbane + 15min 2.00pm - 3.30pm/3.45pm AEDT Sydney question time. 4.00pm - 5.30pm/5.45pm NZDT Auckland Prof Cathryn Murphy RN, MPH, PhD, CIC, CICP. Executive Director, Infection Control Plus Pty Ltd, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Adjunct Assoc. Prof Faculty of Health Science and Medicine, Bond University and Adjunct Prof. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Professor Murphy’s career highlights include a one year postDoctoral placement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, USA and completing several invited short-term missions for the World Health Organisation including investigation of infection control measures in several South East Asian countries during the height of the 2003 SARS outbreak. She has continued to lecture and work around the world. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of several leading infection control journals worldwide and is widely published in scientific journals and textbooks. She has lectured extensively to infection prevention peers and consulted to medical industry across several continents. In 2010 after almost twenty years of volunteer service to infection control she was elected as the first non-North American President of APIC, the world’s largest infection prevention professional association. Dr Evan Alexandrou RN, MPH, PHD, (MC). Evan Alexandrou is a Lecturer with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Western Sydney – Australia. As an advanced practice nurse working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Central Venous Access and Intensive Care at Liverpool Hospital he divides his time undertaking clinical care of critically patients and also inserting central venous catheters. Evan is involved in clinical education at an undergraduate and post graduate level for a number of hospital based medical programs tutoring intensive care, anaesthetic and emergency medical trainees in central venous access and arterial access. Evan has significant clinical expertise in vascular access presenting at national and international conferences on his research findings related to vascular access. Evan has published a number of papers in peered journals on vascular access device insertion and maintenance. Special Guests Joel Mason CNS2 Vascular Access, Paediatric Recovery, The Sydney Children’s Hospital and Bev Hopper, RN BHSc MHP, Nurse Educator, Orthopaedics, Waitemata DHB present their key learnings from attending the 3M Global IV Leadership Summit held in April 2014 in Minnesota, USA. 3M Critical & Chronic Care Solutions Division 3M Australia Pty Limited ABN 90 000 100 096 Bldg A, 1 Rivett Road North Ryde NSW 2113 1300 363 878 www.3M.com.au/healthcare 3M New Zealand Limited 94 Apollo Drive Rosedale Auckland 0632 0800 80 81 82 www.3M.com/healthcare REGISTER Learning objectives: •An overview of change theory including understanding of the individual and collective roles of IV change agents; •Insights into how members of the vascular access community can make a difference by identifying opportunities, conceptualising and undertaking projects that enable them to collectively improve clinical practice and patient care; •A broad over-arching understanding of the key, and often contradictory, best practice recommendations of major national and international IV guidance documents; and •A suggested practical framework for implementing recommendations contained within Standard 3 – Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infections (National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards) to clinical and quality management aspects of vascular access. Register now to join us at this exciting online event which is free for all participants. We look forward to you joining us online. Attendance attracts 1.5 hours CPD points. 3M is a trademark of 3M Company © 2014 Printed in Australia. All rights reserved. PB7050.10.14