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Antimicrobial Stewardship – Aged Care Quality Standards 3 and 8
Understand the problems, principles and strategies behind antimicrobial stewardship in aged care
Aged Care Learning Solutions
Updated Jul 27, 2024
What you'll learn
- Explain the current issues with the misuse and over use of antimicrobials including antibiotics
- Understand the history of antibiotics
- Define antimicrobial resistance
- State the strategies required for Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Discuss why Antimicrobial Stewardship is important for the aged care sector
- Explain how education and communication are important factors in raising awareness about this issue
- Discuss what you can do in your everyday practice to reduce antimicrobial resistance
Course Description
This course covers the following:
- Misuse and over use of antimicrobials
- Principles and strategies to achieve antimicrobial stewardship
- Relevance to the aged care sector
- Everyday practice to reduce antimicrobial resistance.
Audience
This learning activity is for Aged Care workers
