Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
This year the Glasgow Science Festival (GSF) is back and taking place ‘on the sofa’. The digital programme commenced on the 9th of September 2020 and is available until the 9th of November 2020, while live events were broadcasted in the past week. The SHIP team has contributed to this year’s programme by delivering an…
This week’s piece provides insights into students’ experiences of a Masters module led by researchers from the SHIP team. The Infection Prevention and Control in a Global Context (IPCGC) module is offered to students in Trimester B of the Masters of Public Health (MPH) programme at Glasgow Caledonian University. Students are given the choice of…
This week’s piece is by Sally Stewart, Research Project Manager ECONI study and SHIP team member/PhD student. The Evaluation of Cost of Nosocomial Infection (ECONI) investigated the cost and impact of Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) or Nosocomial Infection (NI) to patients, the health service and the wider community. To meet this aim, the team developed…
By Ayodeji Matuluko The Medical Research Foundation’s national PhD training programme in AMR is in its 3rd year. This programme was set up to train the future generation of researchers to address the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The programme funds a core cohort of PhD students studying AMR in universities across the…
By Lucyna Gozdzielewska In a recently published SHIP team paper—co-authored with colleagues from Health Protection Scotland and the University of Strathclyde—the findings of a scoping review of approaches for improving antimicrobial stewardship in livestock farmers and veterinarians are reported. This is an important topic, because microorganisms’ ability to defeat antimicrobials, known as antimicrobial resistance, is…
This week’s blog is by Laura Fregonese, a second year PhD student within the SHIP team. Laura describes her piece as “a personal reflection of a nurse, with over two decades of perioperative practice, who ventured into uncharted territory and transferred her clinical skills into building a compass from which to navigate the complex landscape…
In this week’s blog one of the SHIP Team’s PhD students, Annelysse Jorgenson reflects on her experience working with and interviewing participants internationally in a different language to hers, as part of her PhD study.
By Val Ness Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) means using antibiotics responsibility to preserve their future effectiveness. The nurse’s role in AMS has always been crucial but during a viral pandemic should this role be given more or less priority? Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to cause widespread devastation globally. Although it is a…
In a recently accepted paper by the SHIP team, PhD student Agi McFarland, Professor Jacqui Reilly, Professor Helen Mason and Dr Sarkis Manoukian highlight a need for more robust evidence base in relation to surgical site infection (SSI) prevention. SSIs present a significant burden to healthcare and patients in terms of excess length of stay,…
In this week’s blog Alicia Ware, one of our PhD students who recently joined the SHIP team, shares with us her research interests and experience so far since starting her PhD. Alicia’s supervisors are Dr Ryan Kean, Dr John Butcher and Professor Lesley Price. Enjoy!