Public Health Epi RN PhD (She/Her) #SydneyNursingSchool @Syd_Health @Sydney_ID Health & wellbeing, art & science, immunisation & infection prevention #IPC #SDGs
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25 Jul 2025
A privilege to connect with the incredible ACN community at #NNF2025!
Feeling inspired by nurse-led innovation across clinical care, policy, and advocacy - and the profession’s growing voice in health system transformation.
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📢New Publication Alert!
Our staff have published: decolonising IPC, recognising the IPC knowledge that has existed for thousands of years across:
🖤 First Peoples of Australia
📜 Abrahamic faith traditions
🕉️☸️ Hindu & Buddhist knowledge systems
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New trauma study from the Queensland Children's Hospital reveals the stark reality of e-scooter injuries in QLD kids.🛴 Admissions have doubled in the past 5 years with 1 in 4 patients requiring ICU treatment & two-thirds requiring surgery. Media release👉 bit.ly/3ZjMCef
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Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students
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From 1 November 2025, the new Aged Care Act, updated Rules & strengthened Quality Standards come into effect
Check out our video with Logan Heather. Video and slides available under Governance here:
acipc.org.au/members/ipc-in-…
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23 Oct 2025
“...take a book, leave a book, share a book”. Or, just decompress, because books don't judge. It's lovely to see more of these spaces in hospitals as we start to recognise their importance- it can't all be hustle and bustle and efficiency. #MedTwitter
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17 Oct 2025
Standing up for childhood would be ending poverty, raising income supports, making *all* healthcare free and accessible, mental health care for all, affordable and secure housing tor everyone, funding public education fully, ending discrimination, ensuring economic justice…
ALT Opinion Social media As the world watches, Australia stands up for childhood Decisive regulation of social media is akin to the enfranchisement of women as a piece of revolutionary social policy reform. Peter Hartcher Political and international editor
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1 Sep 2025
Social cohesion Oz is fraying. Not because of immigration. Social cohesion is eroding because of increasing inequality. Fear results. Hope must be restored for social cohesion to build. But hope is dead if uncertainty reigns. Uncertainty ends when the future feels assured.
1 Sep 2025
The term social cohesion has been said A LOT over the last few days. Most people using the term don’t know what it actually means. It’s not about assimilation or multiculturalism. It’s much broader, encapsulating class, social capital and inequality. abc.net.au/religion/andrew-j…
ALT belonging (including pride in Australia and the importance of maintaining Australian culture and way of life); worth (sense of financial satisfaction); social justice and equity (fairness of and trust in government); participation (especially in political life, including voting); and acceptance and rejection, and the legitimacy of the system (especially in relation to immigration).
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29 Aug 2025
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, but at what environmental cost? croakey.org/artificial-intel… #publichealth
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29 Aug 2025
Great to attend the annual ANMF Health & Environmental Sustainability Conference 🏥🌿
Inspiring to hear how nurses and midwives are challenging “business as usual” - delivering high-quality care while reducing environmental impact and emissions 💡✨
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29 Aug 2025
Grateful for the chance to contribute to the conversation on tensions and opportunities through an IPC lens 🌏🦠
link.springer.com/article/10…...
#SustainableHealthcare #NursingLeadership #PlanetaryHealth #InfectionPrevention #IPC #ANMF #SydneyNursingSchool #SNSGreenTeam
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28 Aug 2025
🔥Hot off the press🔥
The Commission “Healthcare Sustainability & Resilience Module” will support Australian health services to address healthcares impact on the environment & the climate risks affecting human health & access to high-quality care 🌏🏥🩺
safetyandquality.gov.au/publ…
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31 Jul 2025
“Infection prevention and control (IPC) is inherently sustainable”
30 Jul 2025
Infection prevention and control #IPC is sustainable by reducing infections. This article shares insights from a binational expert workshop on overcoming barriers for more sustainable IPC with regard to ecological sustainability
ow.ly/CHMK50WtbYU
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30 Jul 2025
Infection prevention and control #IPC is sustainable by reducing infections. This article shares insights from a binational expert workshop on overcoming barriers for more sustainable IPC with regard to ecological sustainability
ow.ly/CHMK50WtbYU
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Your voice can shape the future of IPC in Australia
The new Centre for Disease Control must include IPC.
Our easy-to-use tool lets you email your local MP with one click.
Add your voice today: acipc.good.do/ipcinthecdc/IP…
#IPC #PublicHealth #ACIPC #CDCAustralia
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25 Jul 2025
Latest @ICNurses statement on Gaza #HumanitarianCrisis Reports we received this week from #nurses on the ground working for a range of organisations are consistent with aid agencies and @WHO descriptions of a catastrophic humanitarian situation.
25 Jul 2025
The @WHO has reported “mass starvation” and a “deadly surge in malnutrition-related deaths” caused by aid blockades, with a quarter of #Gaza’s population facing famine-like conditions, at least three quarters showing “Emergency” or “Catastrophic” levels of food deprivation, and 95% of households facing severe water shortages.
➡️ Read our full article: bit.ly/4fhIylR
#nursing #nurses #nursesforpeace
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25 Jul 2025
A privilege to connect with the incredible ACN community at #NNF2025!
Feeling inspired by nurse-led innovation across clinical care, policy, and advocacy - and the profession’s growing voice in health system transformation.
#SydneyNursingSchool
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25 Jul 2025
Loved the strong planetary health thread running through #NNF2025 and pleased to share our work exploring planetary health in health professional education, and sustainability in clinical simulation, while learning from others 🌏🌱
#SydneyNursingSchool #SNSGreenTeam
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25 Jul 2025
ABC news story today about low influenza vaccination rates in Australia and the impact of this disease. Early reporting made it seem like the only groups for whom it's free are kids and those >65yrs. Actual groups here:
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24 Jul 2025
Dr Aletha Ward "Beyond Tokenism: Why Planetary Health Must Be Embedded in Nursing Practice and Education". Nursing's broader responsibilities in caring for communities, populations and planetary health is clearly recognised in the new ICN definitions. #NNF2025
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