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Archive 2020
UCC launches online CPD module to support nurses to augment their skills in intensive care nursing in the fight against COVID-19
Supporting the war against COVID-19
Professor Ivan Perry, Dr Maura Smiddy, Public Health Department, UCC and Professor Eileen Savage, School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC are leading UCCs Contact Tracing efforts. A team of Contact Tracers are located on campus in UCC.
The contact tracing team are based in the Boole basement, UCC and work in partnership with the HSE. Contact tracing is the process of identifying all people to whom a confirmed COVID-19 case may have transmitted the infection, and putting in place measures to ensure these exposed people do not further transmit disease. For nursing students it primarily involves providing advice and guidance by the telephone to those who have been identified as close contacts of a COVID-19 positive individual. Specialist training and supervision is being provided to all nursing students and volunteers.
Properly done, contact tracing and follow-up health interventions help to ensure that the infection spread is limited helping to slow down the pace of disease transmission in the community.