About ICPAQ
Our Mission
The mission of the Infection Control Practitioners Association of Queensland is to improve health care by serving the needs and aims common to all Infection Control Practitioners and all other members of the health care industry.
Our objectives are:
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To serve as a forum for sharing knowledge and experience in all aspects of Infection Control.
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To promote education in Infection Control throughout Hospitals and the community at large.
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To initiate discussion, evaluation and implementation of updated and improved methods of Infection Control.
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To promote safe practices with regard to the care of infected persons and other potential sources of infection.
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To promote discussion of statistics regarding hospital and community acquired infections with respect to recording, monitoring, evaluating (statistics relating to infection ) and management.
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To organise and conduct symposia, given by persons who are specialists in significant aspects of Infection Control.
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To ensure that guidelines used for practice in Infection Control are derived from current publications of recognised organisations such as the National Health and Medical research Council of Australia, Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (USA), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (USA), the National Health and Medical Research Council (Aust.), and the Hospital Infection Society (UK).
ICPAQ 2009 Conference
Invitation from the Convenor
The Infection Control Practitioners' Association of Queensland (ICPAQ) offers you a warm invitation to join with some of Australia's key visionaries and infection prevention opinion leaders at what promises to be 2009's most stimulating and invigorating infection prevention event, "Prevention in Paradise". Queensland, national and international infection prevention initiatives and approaches will be showcased at this event with invited speakers and submitted abstracts addressing themes such as Creating Sustainable Specialties, Infection Prevention Governance, New to The Game - Infection Prevention for Novices, Changing Behaviours, Device-related infections, Rapid Testing Technologies and Human Factors: Its Relationship To Infection Prevention. Our scientific committee is designing a program that will have broad appeal to all working in or interested in infection prevention across many different healthcare settings including acute, non-acute, long term care, outpatient and day surgery, rural, regional and remote settings. We are also keen to receive submissions from infection preventionists working outside of Queensland and internationally.
As well as providing state-of-the-art and futuristic information and perspectives our team is working towards delivering outstanding social events designed to facilitate delegates' professional networking and informal exchange of ideas and information. We are also optimistic that our medical industry partners will participate in this event by enjoying extended and direct exposure to delegates which we believe will inform industry's research and development agendas and identify additional strategic and marketing opportunities.
See you on the Coast - August 2009
Associate Professor Cathryn Murphy PhD
Chair - 2009 ICPAQ Conference Organising Subcommittee
Further information available at www.icpaq2009.com
This page last updated: February 28, 2009
Review date: December 2009