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Resources
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The success of this week will depend on you providing a variety of activities and promotional posters/information to ‘grab’ everyone’s attention:
- Decide what your message is and who your target audience may be - for staff working in the community this may be a geographically diverse audience and leaflets may be a good way of spreading the word – consider your audiences knowledge base and needs.
- Advertise your event throughout the organisation and wider community (e mail, word of mouth, IC link staff, meetings, posters, leaflets, newsletters)
- Encourage participation by link/liaison nurses or any other staff with half an hour to spare an interest in IC and an extrovert nature!
- Source the information, posters and equipment you will need
- Remember that adults learn by doing and participation as much as children do
- Agree venues such as staff/visitor restaurant or main foyer in community hospitals, health centres, nursing homes, schools, supermarkets or shopping complex with the manager responsible for each venue and book/gain agreement with them in writing – consider presentations in high traffic areas
- Source any free material available
- Involve senior managers in the venues you intend to use and don’t forget the clinicians – infection control is everybody’s responsibility – encourage them to participate
- Share Trust/community surveillance information and positive messages about achievements
- Activities contribute to the success of your event – get carried away and have fun!!
- Schedule activities to encourage participation by as many staff/clients/relatives/public as possible, avoiding peak work times
- Keep records of attendance for evaluation purposes but don’t be disappointed if you cannot reach everyone. The community is a huge place in comparison to a District General Hospital!
In order to help you organise your week, we provide the following documents (MS Word) which you can print:
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