Public Health Epi RN PhD (She/Her) #SydneyNursingSchool @Syd_Health @Sydney_ID Health & wellbeing, art & science, immunisation & infection prevention #IPC#SDGs
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
📢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
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👉 https://t.co/gMZ3VmJ3IM
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:
https://t.co/MbaT2STNK4
“...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
https://t.co/5j2SNzQzPq
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…
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.
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 💡✨
#SydneyNursingSchool
🔥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 🌏🏥🩺
https://t.co/Vc31jMmRt8
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
https://t.co/zFSzdF94zi
#SustainableIPC
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
https://t.co/zFSzdF94zi
#SustainableIPC
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: https://t.co/eT3Oi316Tp
#IPC#PublicHealth#ACIPC#CDCAustralia
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.
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
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
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:
https://t.co/AfoEI10gC9
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