• Infection Control Week - Introduction
• Planning your week
• Challenges
  • Poster contest
  • Slogan contest
  • Quiz/word search puzzle
• Test your handwashing skills
• Exhibitions
• Demonstrations
• Important Citations
  • Policy and Guidance
  • Healthcare Environment and cleanliness
  • Pandemic Flu
  • Practice based audit
    • Saving lives
    • Essential steps
    • ICNA audit tool
    • Essence of care
  • Hand Hygiene
  • Evidence based standards - EPIC
  • Working party reports/ACDP/SEAC
  • Community and Home Hygiene
  • Posters
  • Leaflets
  • Decontamination
  • Surveillance
  • Occupational Health
  • Systematic Reviews
  • Scotland/Ireland/Wales
  • International Guidelines
  • Useful Links

Organise a stand to exhibit local infection control policy and practice - the brighter the better and lots of IC information and 'freebies' to give away will catch peoples attention.

• Caring Hands
  • Take photographs of the hands and faces of various prominent individuals in your trust.
  • Then paste them onto a poster.
  • Have people try to match the hands with the faces, with a prize to the winner.
• Exhibitors - contact your local supply representatives, they might be interested in setting up display booths, and are great sources for giveaway items, buttons etc.
• Tours - arrange a tour of your department, laboratories, etc; set up displays and demonstrations. Don't forget freebies i.e. pens, post-its, and anything else you can get your representatives to part with!
• Infection Control Display
  • An Infection Control display is a great way to highlight an idea or theme, provide educational materials for pickup and to promote Infection Control to the public.
  • You can set up a display within your trust or externally, in local shops, health care facilities (e.g. Health Centres), office building lobbies etc.
  • A display can be both manned and/or unmanned, depending on your time and resources.
  • Once the initial materials are obtained a display may be used over and over for many years, so it is a very cost-effective way to promote Infection Control.
  • Set up your display in a high-traffic area, such as lobbies, outside the staff restaurant or at the main patient entrance. Be sure to check with your safety personnel in case there are restrictions due to fire access.
  • Try to keep your display uncluttered.
  • Material for the poster boards should follow the theme/IC Statement and be placed neatly, with clear headings.
  • Secure material well, nothing looks worse than items that are coming loose or falling down.
  • Use a sheet or tablecloth to cover the table that the display will rest on, having it fall down the front of the table to hide table legs. Posters can be pinned to this sheet if necessary.
  • Free samples can be placed on the table that the display board sits on, to attract attention and generate interest.
  • This is also a good place to display educational materials such as fact sheets and information brochures.
  • If your display is unmanned, don't forget to check it regularly and replace items that have run out.

This will require plenty of space and time to set up a mock-up of a bed area but will be well worth the effort from a positive educational perspective.

• Arrange demonstrations on specific techniques such as isolation, gowning, masking and handwashing.
• Or set up a mock isolation room and critique staff as they go in and perform a "procedure" on a dummy patient, with a prize for the person with the fewest errors in technique.