Type 1 Education Workshops

"Introduction to VICNISS" and "Reports Interpretation" workshops are held as and when required. For more information, please contact VICNISS.

Upcoming Workshop

TBA (The most recent workshop was held July 2008).

Past Workshops

"Introduction/Basic" workshops have been held about twice a year to assist the number of new infection control nurses that have joined VICNISS participating sites. Content for the workshop included introductions to HAI surveillance, and VICNISS surveillance methodology (SSI and ICU), instruction on the basic and modified risk index and SIR for CSEC and AB prophylaxis, and understanding and interpreting reports.

"Reports" workshops have also been held, covering "p values" and "confidence intervals" as well as "interpretation of reports". Participant feedback indicated they felt the workshop was of great value.

Workshops for Type 1 hospitals were conducted in three phases in 2002-2003 to introduce Type 1 participants to VICNISS and the surveillance methods. The feedback was very positive.