Report on the 4th International Conference on Infection Control - Dublin 1996

Abstract

It was a great privilege to attend the 4th International Conference on Infection Control at Trinity College, Dublin. I would like to acknowledge and thank the New South Wales Nurses Registration Board for making it possible through their scholarship. Over three hundred and fifty delegates attended the conference from twenty-six countries. Common problems from all countries arose, such as, the lack of appropriate hand washing, lack of resources and the use and abuse of antibiotics that is pressuring the mutation of micro-organisms.