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New publication highlights influences on nurse prescribers’ antibiotic prescribing practice

June 15, 2021SHIPGCUNew publication / Nurse Prescribing / ResearchLeave a comment

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared one of the greatest threats to global health. Resistance occurs when a microbe mutates or acquires genetic information from another microbe, making it resistant to antibiotics. There are many contributing factors, one being antibiotic use in humans, therefore, improving antibiotic prescribing is crucial. Most available research on antimicrobial prescribing…

SARS-CoV2 and the Indian variant- how worried should we be?

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021SHIPGCUCOVID-19Leave a comment

By Dr Claire Crossan With a Covid19 vaccine program ahead of schedule and falling ICU figures, I am sure many of us were hopeful that the worst of the pandemic had passed. But should our optimism be crushed by recent headlines focusing on the emergence of the Indian variant within the UK’s current Covid19 ‘hotspots’?…

Celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day 2021 with the SHIP team

April 28, 2021SHIPGCU5th of May / hand hygieneLeave a comment

By Alicia Ware The WHO’s Hand Hygiene Day 2021 is just around the corner. The theme this year is “Seconds save lives: clean your hands!”. It aims to promote effective hand hygiene practices/performance at the point of care by all stakeholders, including IPC practitioners, healthcare workers and facility managers, as well as patients and families.…

That’s a wrap! Recruitment for SIREN finishes as the study moves into its next phase

April 8, 2021October 17, 2022SHIPGCUCOVID-19 / Research / SIRENLeave a comment

By Annelysse Jorgenson and Sally Stewart After a total of 22 weeks, recruitment for the SIREN study in Scotland has come to a close and the final numbers are in! Thank you to the 6277* participants in Scotland who volunteered! Recruitment for any research study always has its trials and tribulations but the hard work…

Starting a PhD in the middle of a pandemic

March 16, 2021November 15, 2021SHIPGCUResearchers' storiesLeave a comment

Starting a PhD during a pandemic is not an easy feat! Our latest blog is by Fiona Roche, a new PhD student. Fiona writes about her experience of starting a PhD within the SHIP team. Fiona is an Operating Department Practitioner and a former member of the lecturing team in the Department of Nursing and…

High flyers in recruitment: Scottish SIREN sites power ahead with record numbers of participants joining the study.

March 5, 2021October 17, 2022SHIPGCUCOVID-19 / Research / SIRENLeave a comment

By Annelysse Jorgenson and Sally Stewart Last week was a huge week for SIREN participant recruitment in Scotland, with a number of the participating NHS health boards reaching new heights. As recruitment is coming to an end on the 31st March, all the SIREN sites have been making extra efforts to grow their recruitment before…

GCU researchers lead Scotland’s participation in the largest study into immunity to COVID-19

January 25, 2021October 17, 2022SHIPGCUCOVID-19 / Research / SIRENLeave a comment

By Lynne Haahr Members of the SHIP research group are excited to be working on COVID-19 research by partnering with Public Health Scotland to carry out the SIREN (Sarscov2 Immunity & REinfection EvaluatioN) study in Scotland. GCU is working with NHS hospitals in Scotland to recruit patient facing healthcare workers to have regular COVID-19-tests and…

Using multimodal strategies to improve hand hygiene compliance in a hospital in Cameroon: a personal experience

January 7, 2021January 25, 2021SHIPGCUhand hygiene / ResearchLeave a comment

Our first blog of 2021 is by Nkwan Jacob Gobte, of Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services. Jacob is the Research Coordinator of a hand hygiene study being led by the SHIP team in Cameroon. Since the 18th century, hand hygiene has been widely accepted as the main strategy to prevent infections in healthcare facilities. Hand…

SHIP team sails across new horizons to reach out to communities during the pandemic

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020SHIPGCUPress release / public engagementLeave a comment

By Janice Burns (originally published on the GCU website) GCU’s Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research group has risen to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by finding new and inventive ways to reach out to our communities. To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) from November 18-24, the researchers have been blogging and…

The SHIP team marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020

November 18, 2020April 28, 2021SHIPGCUpublic engagement / World Antimicrobial Awareness WeekLeave a comment

By Lucyna Gozdzielewska Every year from 18-24 November we celebrate the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). This initiative began in 2015, after the World Health Organization recognised the problem of antimicrobial resistance as a priority and subsequently identified it as an urgent global health threat. That same year the WHO endorsed a global action plan…