The IPC Nurses Corner is a new European initiative dedicated to connecting, empowering, and supporting infection prevention and control (IPC) nurses across all healthcare settings. Developed under the umbrella of EUCIC and aligned with the goals of EU-JAMRAI 2, the network offers a professional space where nurses can grow, share, and lead — together. Participation is open to IPC nurses from Europe and beyond — working in hospitals, long-term care, ambulatory care, or community settings. Whether you are new to the role or highly experienced, this network is for you.
Every three months, the network organizes a 60-minute interactive online session to share reflection, experiences, challenges, find practical solutions to daily questions/issues, build guidance, and bring mutual support in IPC. These peer exchange sessions in English languages include short IPC professionals-led presentations, altogether or breakout discussions.
Examples of General Topics:
Dates for the next online sessions are shown below. All registered members will receive a Teams invitation for the webinars.
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Date |
Theme |
Practical Topic |
Focus/Key Discussion Topic |
Link to Meeting |
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20 January 2026 15:00-16:00 |
Patient Engagement & Education |
Patient Empowerment & IPC: Making Patients Partners |
How do you successfully involve patients and their families in core IPC measures (e.g., hand hygiene, catheter care, knowing their antibiotic plan)? Share accessible resources. |
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24 March 2026 15:00-16:00 |
IPC Quality Improvement |
IPC Audits & Feedback: Beyond the Numbers |
Share practical tools and forms for effective audit and feedback. How do you deliver constructive audit feedback and successfully motivate departments with low adherence? |
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23 June 2026 15:00-16:00 |
Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) |
Nurse-Led AMS: Leadership on the Floor |
Showcase short examples of successful nurse-initiated AMS projects (e.g., timing of prophylactic antibiotics). How can IPC nurses drive AMS culture without prescribing authority? |
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22 September 2026 15:00-16:00 |
Behavioural Change |
Communicating Compliance & Managing Resistance to Change |
How to handle tough conversations with non-compliant staff or resistant unit managers. Focus on persuasive, non-confrontational strategies. |
The network facilitates an informal voluntary peer system, where nurses can establish collaboration with colleagues from another countries or setting to:
Matching is flexible and based on shared interest areas or IPC roles.
Interested in joining the network?
and receive:
We are working to create a list of local IPC nurses open for P2P collaborations which will appear here. All participating nurses will be added to a dedicated emailing list, where relevant topics are regularly shared for discussion, helping members to connect with colleagues facing similar challenges or working on shared priorities. Register and join our P2P collaboration.
The network currently counts 99 members in total. This is the list of current 74 IPC nurse network members who have agreed to be publicly listed.
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Name |
Country of practice |
Current Role in IPC |
Additional details current role |
Organisation (optional) |
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Alessia Arcangeli |
Italy and LMIC |
IPC nurse |
National Institute of Infection Disease "Lazzaro Spallanzani" Roma |
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Alexandra Fernandes |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
ULSSA |
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Amanda Daniel |
Wales, UK |
Strategic National Lead for IPC in Primary and Community Care in Wales |
Reservist with the UKHSA Rapid Support Team (RST) supporting global outbreaks |
Public Health Wales |
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Ana Geada |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
ULS S.JOSÉ |
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Anastassia Pent |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
North Estonia Regional hospital |
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Anita Johansson |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg Sweden |
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Annika Lemetsar |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
ESC |
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Anouk Devolder |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Zeno (Knokke) |
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Aristotelis Papadimitriou |
Greece |
IPC nurse |
Saint Savvas Athens Oncology Hospital |
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Camelia Bogaert |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint Lucas Gent |
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Candice Bonaconsa |
South Africa |
Research and QI in Nurse AMS |
University of Cape Town |
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Carmela Lupo |
Italy |
Head nurse IPC |
ASL Roma 2 Public Hospital |
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Caroline Haesebroek |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
Regionaal Ziekenhuis Heilig Hart Leuven |
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Carre Yolene |
France |
IPC nurse |
Scientific Committee Chair, Research Coordinator |
CHU Bordeaux |
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Carry Meel |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint Lucas Brugge |
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Cisse Ousmane Aboubacar |
Mali |
IPC coaching, audits and action plan development |
Médecin sans frontières Belgique |
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Cláudia Patrícia Rodrigues Pereira |
Portugal |
IPC team - in charge of the community care |
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Debbie Xuereb |
Malta |
IPC nurse |
National role to support IPC nurses across Malta |
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Dragomir Ivanov |
Bulgaria |
IPC trainer and consultant |
Chairman of the ONE HEALTH Bulgaria |
Liaison officer for EU JAMRAI2 for Bulgaria |
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Efthymia Spyrakou |
Greece |
IPC nurse |
CLEO |
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Eirini Astrinaki |
Greece |
IPC nurse |
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Ekaterina Madzharova |
Bulgaria |
Inspector at the anti-epidemic control department |
RHI Varna |
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Emma Franklin |
Scotland |
IPC nurse |
NHS Highland |
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Emma Fransen |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint-Jan Brugge |
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Enrique Castro-Sanchez |
Spain, UK |
Advanced IPC Clinical Specialist Nurse |
UK Health Security Agency in London |
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) |
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Eva Cappelli |
Italy |
PhD researcher - Surveillance systems and data use |
Surveillance IPC MDRO (Europe Study) |
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Flora Sourri |
Greece |
IPC head nurse |
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Gloria Koglbauer |
Austria |
IPC nurse |
UK Wiener Neustadt |
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Helen Carpenter |
Ireland |
Clinical Nurse Manager 3 in IPC |
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin |
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Helle Boelsmand |
Denmark |
IPC nurse |
Rigshospitalet Copenhagen |
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Ilse De Cock |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint Lucas Gent |
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Ivana Novakova |
France |
IPC nurse |
Member of the SF2H Board of Directors; Member of the Education and International Relations Committees |
CASVP - SEHPAD |
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Jasmin Männer |
Switzerland |
IPC head nurse |
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Jeanne Badino |
Denmark |
IPC nurse |
Rigshospitalet Copenhagen |
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Jette Holt |
Denmark |
National advisor in IPC; Master of Arts (education) phd. |
SSI |
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Jo Grootaerd |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Oostende |
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Jose Carlos Andrade |
Portugal |
Member of Commission on Infection Control and Antimicrobial Resistance |
Unidade Local de Saude de Santo Antonio - Hospital Magalhaes Lemos |
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Karolin Eklund |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg |
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La Moeller |
Denmark |
Infection consultant |
Municipality of Aarhus |
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Lidiya Encheva |
United Kingdom |
IPC Link Nurse (operating theatre) |
ANTT Lead |
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Lena Lambaa |
Faroe Islands |
IPC nurse |
Landssygehuset |
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Liesbeth De pauw |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
Sint-Jozefskliniek Izegem |
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Lieve Blommaert |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
UZ Brussel |
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Margarida Dinis |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
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Maria José dos Santos Maia |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
ULS S. José |
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Maria Tseroni |
Greece |
Assistant Professor of Infection Prevention and Control |
Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
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Marie Vandamme |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ West |
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Matilda Hellström |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg |
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Merlin Wilson |
Ireland |
IPC CNS |
The Royal Hospital Donnybrook |
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Monica Kloster Larsen |
Denmark |
Development consultant with responsibility of infection control |
Ikast-Brande Kommune |
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Nicolai Kirkegaard |
Denmark |
Infection Control Specialist |
Infection Control Specialist MRSA-unit, Infection Control Division |
Aalborg University Hospital |
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Nicole Verbraeken |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
UZ Brussel |
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Noel Abela |
Malta |
IPC nurse |
Mater Dei Hospital |
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Olga Tomberg |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
North Estonia Medical Centre Foundation |
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Ouattara Ally |
Burkina Faso |
IPC Officer |
Coordinates IPC across multiple hospitals in the city |
CHU Tengandogo |
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Patrícia Maria Cortez Dias |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
Champalimaud Foundation |
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Paula Brito |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
ULS Cova da Beira |
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Paulo Jorge Marques Brois |
Portugal |
IPC Link Nurse (operating theatre) |
Unidade Local de Saúde do Baixo Alentejo |
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Petra Bosmans |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
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Raquel Melo |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
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Rebecca Rüdlinger |
Switzerland |
IPC nurse |
Fachexpertin für Infektionsprävention im Gesundheitswesen |
HOCH Health Ostschweiz |
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Rosa Maria Fernandes Oliveira |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
ULSGE |
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Sara Alexandra Teixeira Magalhães |
Portugal |
Promoting infection prevention |
Epidemiological surveillance, professional training |
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Silvana Gastaldi |
Italy |
IPC specialist |
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Sofie Lindberg |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg, Sweden |
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Sofie Van Belle |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
University Hospital Gent |
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Stamataki Petroula |
Greece |
IPC head nurse |
Naval Hospital of Athena |
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Tatjana Maloštan |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
Children’s Hospital |
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Teele Ruzitš |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
North Estonia Medical Centre (NEMC) |
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Thibault Dierckx |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
UZ Brussel |
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Tiina Teder |
Estonia |
Nurse manager of Infection Control |
Estonian Society of Infection Control |
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Tina De Beer |
Belgium |
Coordinator of the Hospital Outbreak Support Team network CUROZ |
UZ Brussel |
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Veronique Blomme |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Oostende |
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Vibeke Vestergaard |
Denmark |
IPC nurse |
Aalborg Universitets Hospital |
Contact IPC Nurses Network coordination for more information or any inquiries you might have.