Infection Control Week takes place October 15-21, 2017, and PICNet has lots of activities and resources available:
1. Planning and Communications Toolkit
To help you plan your IC Week activities and promotion, you can use PICNet’s downloadable toolkit, which contains a planning/resources template, 20 different activities to choose from, and communications tools such as sample newsletters, blog posts, and tweets.
2. “Let’s Go Viral!” Workshop In-A-Box
Run your own training workshop with this educational game that PICNet has created to help you train your staff in infection control basics. The game is also a great team-building exercise! Order or download the Let’s Go Viral kit. You can also download a poster to promote your event.
We have two poster sizes: letter size (8.5×11 inches) or 11×17.
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3. Residential Care Visits
PICNet will be visiting residential care facilities throughout the Lower Mainland during October and November. If you’d like us to visit your facility, Click here for more information During fall 2016, PICNet’s Bug Gang will visit residential care facilities across the Lower Mainland and in Prince George. For the past four years, our educational infection control game has been a huge hit. We are limited in the number of facilities we can visit, so be sure to book early if you’d like us to come! Please note, we can only visit facilities we have not visited in the past two years. PICNet can visit your residential care facility during October and November 2017. We can do a morning or an afternoon session (or two sessions, depending on your staffing schedule). We need a separate room, ideally with a large table that everyone can sit around, and we prefer to see the staff in groups of 8-20 people. Each session lasts about 45 minutes, although it’s best if we have a full hour so that there is time for questions and answers. There will be prizes for everyone! Due to budget restrictions, we now charge a $200 fee for each visit. If you are interested in having PICNet visit your facility, please complete the booking form and submit it to us by email (picnet@phsa.ca). Upon receipt, we will follow up with a phone call to confirm our visit date and to discuss your infection control week needs. If you’d like us to visit your facility: If we’re unable to visit your facility or you’d like to run the workshop yourself, you can order one of PICNet’s “Let’s Go Viral!“ workshop in-a-box kits. The kit includes the exact same game we will be hosting, with instructions and supplies; you just have to provide the prizes. You can phone Helen Evans at 604-459-1971. PICNet has lots of infection control posters you can download and print – including some new ones! You can download the following web banner by right-clicking and choosing Save As: More ideas, games, and downloadable resources for IC week. IPAC-Canada has lots of great planning resources for Infection Control Week. Public Health Ontario has produced a great book of ideas for IC Week activities. APIC has some great infection control posters; although they are American, the content applies equally in Canada (just check with your IC department before posting, in case they prefer to have Canadian-created posters). 
Submit the application form by September 25, 2017Questions?
Download the application form
Order an Infection-Control-Week-in-a-Box kit
View photos of the workshop in action
4. Posters and banners
5. Infection Control Resources
6. Other Resources and Links