On society and how that can then be best used to affect change or even rally awareness. 10 There are a number of narratives in the literature that explore the impact of popular culture Research indicates that pop-cultural references, such as storylines in film, television and literature, have a significant impact on audiences. However, it remains that using such devices encourages active learning, corrects misconceptions, instils greater self-confidence and provides a better understanding of concepts. This is dependent upon the target audience and the pop-cultural references that they will respond to, as not all people have the same exposure or experience with popular culture 9 Once the viewer makes a personal identification with an idea or concept they remember and can contextualise it. It uses what has been described as the ‘self-referential effect,’ where an individual can relate to an idea or concept because they have lived it either physically or in their mind by processing a story. Pop culture as a pedagogical device uses content with which people are familiar, generally through film and television, in order to teach. The challenge for healthcare educators is to make the content accessible, palatable and memorable to facilitate knowledge translating to practice. All of these infectious diseases have been amplified in the healthcare setting, primarily because of poor everyday infection prevention and control practice, and poor identification of infectious diseases. ), the highly pathogenic avian influenzas, followed similar patterns. 8 Before that, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS
Virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa and the percolating Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERs Is not done, of which the most recent Ebola
The literature, and healthcare history abounds with examples of how infection prevention and control 6 Even with these statistics well known, the situation remains that standard and transmission-based precautions are still not well complied with by healthcare workers. 5 It is for this reason perhaps that there are approximately 200,000 healthcare associated infections reported each year from Australian health facilities, which makes them the most common complication for patients. be conducted for and of learning,’ which is often not the case in practice where staff undertake annual competencies, increasingly in an online format, purely to meet an administrative requirement. When used, assessment must contribute to the learning experience-i.e. Allen, Currey and Considine state that ‘Assessment must not be undertaken simply for the purpose of assessment. Generally speaking, it is considered a chore and little attention is paid by healthcare workers. Infection prevention and control education is, however, notoriously ‘vanilla,’ in the sense that it mainly consists of annual staff training, in-service programmes, posters, reporting of audit results and online learning.
4 An important part of this initiative is the education and training of healthcare workers in infection prevention and control ) and its member states, including Australia, with the First Global Patient Safety Challenge, Clean Care is Safer Care, launched in 2005. It contributes to both patient and healthcare worker safety and is recognised as a global priority by the World Health Organization (WHO Infection prevention and control is a key aspect of all undergraduate health professions and the delivery of patient care.
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