For many of our readers, today is likely your first day
back from the annual CHICA-Canada conference (Canada's National Infection
Prevention and Control Association).
The speaker line up and breadth of topics was impressive. Opening the conference was Dr. Martin Wale
from Vancouver, BC with in inspiring talk on "Thinking Differently About
IPAC: A More Strategic Approach".
The closing session was given by Sir Liam Donaldson from the United
Kingdom talking about "Global Patient Safety".
The Clean Freaks "gamified" Talk Clean To Me by
creating a "It's Time to Get Social" game. Each delegate was given a
Talk Clean To Me button with a unique number and challenged to talk to other
delegates through whatever means necessary to find their match (e.g. another
delegate who had the same number on their button). As the days progressed we had people during
question period following the seminars introducing themselves and their number,
we had presenters add their Talk Clean To Me number at the end of their
presentations, many tweeted using the #CHICACanada2013 hashtag and one delegate
used her Outbreak Management sleuthing skills to track down her match literally
by following up with "contacts".
She knew the facility the person was from and quite literally tracked
her down amongst the 500 plus delegates!
Alexis Silverman (Top Centre) found her match with me
winning the grand prize of an iPad Mini.
Shirley MacDonald and Camilla Levers (bottom left) and Nancy
Todd-Giordano and Barbara Catt (bottom right) found their matches and will
receive free registration to the Virox Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization
Symposium Pre-Conference Day at the 2014 CHICA-Canada conference in Halifax,
NS.
Thanks to everyone who played along with us! If you are in Fort Lauderdale this weekend
for the APIC Conference be sure to drop by our booth to get your Talk Clean To
Me mug and Webber Training Infection Control Posters!
Bugging off!
Nicole
