Susan Jain

Susan Jain is an Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Consultant at the Centre for Hospital Epidemiology and Staff Services (CHESS) at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney. Susan has over 20 years of clinical experience principally in Infection Prevention and Management and Intensive Care Nursing.

She is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales and her current research interests lie in misuse or over use of nonsterile gloves in healthcare settings. She has been selected for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) International Ambassador Program 2016. Susan is also the principal investigator in the project exploring the enablers and barriers of hand hygiene auditors using practice development methods at Wollongong Hospital.

Her research activities include the effect of wearing personal protective equipment by healthcare workers when caring for patients infected or colonised with multidrug resistant organisms, healthcare workers attitude towards glove use and its effect on hand hygiene.