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Josephine W

@josephinew.bsky.social
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist based in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 💊

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Nadine Hillock @nadinehillock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Highlighting undocumented off-label topical use of rifampicin during surgery in Australian hospitals, and opportunities for AMS #Antimicrobials2025 #ASA2025 #rifampicin #surgery #AntimicrobialStewardship @edraby.bsky.social #MattRawlins
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Two sides to every coin. Free range chooks - great for animal welfare, perhaps not so much for #AMS. Allegra Schermuly presenting findings from focus groups on consumer attitudes to antibiotic use #ASA2025
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Nadine Hillock @nadinehillock.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Combining NAUSP & NAPS datasets shows that in general restricted antibiotics have lower usage rates and higher appropriateness, but appropriateness of unrestricted antimicrobials should still be targets for AMS - Caroline Chen #Antimicrobials2025 @cazchen.bsky.social #surveillance #AMS
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Importance of combining appropriateness and consumption to form a more complete picture of antimicrobial use at a local hospital and national level. @cazchen.bsky.social presenting a comparative analysis of 192 hospitals across two national programs. @ausantibiotics.bsky.social #ASA2025
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A huge amount of careful thought, validation work and technical gymnastics that went into the development of real time AMS reports for AMS teams. Ms Jenna Maleki presenting on the development of dashboard reports in the Guidance application. @ausantibiotics.bsky.social #ASA2025
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pharmacist Josephine Wen discussing the value of concise targeted auditing tools in conjunction with larger point prevalence audits for AMS programs. @ausantibiotics.bsky.social #ASA2025
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A national audit of 200 hospitals showed ongoing poor prescribing in surgical prophylaxis, in particular with extended durations of post-operative prophylaxis. Dr Courtney Ierano presenting the 2023 results of our Surgical NAPS program @ausantibiotics.bsky.social #AMSsky #ASA2025
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Excited to showcase the work of our team at the @ausantibiotics.bsky.social conference #ASA2025
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What a way to wrap up Day 1 of #ASA2025 with our Director Prof Kas Thursky delivering the prestigious Howard Florey Oration. We’re so proud to be a part of her visionary work pioneering #AMS in Australia and internationally and driving the field forward. @ausantibiotics.bsky.social
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Proud of our team of clinician researchers at the (unofficial) NCAS session at #ASA2025
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#WAAW Day 2 So important for patients to have access to clear, relevant info on their antimicrobial therapy. Our Patient Info leaflets have been developed by our team of pharmacists, physicians, are UI/UX designed with full consumer review. www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact... #IDSky #AMSSky
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#WAAW2024 Day 4 There always seems to be a medication shortage of some sort... NCAS have developed medication shortage fact sheets for a range of common antimicrobials, with suggested alternatives based on the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines. #AMSsky #IDsky www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact...
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For day 3 #WAAW2024, we are promoting the incredible work done by our vet colleagues in developing antimicrobial prescribing guidelines and #AMS program resources in companion animals, horses and cattle. Links in comments #AMSSky #Vetsky #OneHealth
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
And that’s a wrap! 🎬 A huge thanks to all the organizers and presenters for an absolutely fantastic NCAS #WAAW2024 Forum. What a fabulous day of learning and catching up with our AMS colleagues. See you all again at the next one! #AMSsky
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thanks to all our new followers! We will be inviting our 3.9k Twitter X followers to join Bluesky!
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
For our Aussie followers, our NCAS World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW forum is on next Friday 22nd Nov at the Doherty Institute, Melbourne🌏 www.ncas-australia.org/antimicrobia... A brilliant lineup of speakers will be presenting on the theme of building workforce capacity for AMS research.
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you haven’t followed @trubianojason.bsky.social yet…he is an international innovator and leader in allergy delabeling with programs developed for and by AMS experts
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week! #WAAW NCAS are proud to join the global community in highlighting the importance of #AMS education, research and training across One Health 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🐕‍🦺🌴 #IDSky #AMSSky
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This #WAAW, we're highlighting some of our #AMS resources developed over the years. First up, our 'What Are Antimicrobials?' posters have been translated into 18 languages. www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact... #AMSSky #IDSky
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National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship @ncas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
You can learn more about our centre on our website. Lots of resources here as well links to our monthly webinars! #AMSsky www.ncas-australia.org
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