IRS

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Exotic Disease Response (EDR) Training

• IRS Surveillance Visits

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Training Agenda

• This session covers the IRS Surveillance
  activities
• performed during the following processes
• Organise Surveillance Field Teams
• Schedule Surveillance Visits
• Evaluate and Record Surveillance Visit
• Receive Samples and Send to Lab
• Evaluate Lab Results from Surveillance Visit

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Session Outcomes

• At the end of this session you should be able to
  perform the
• following IRS functions
• create a visit plan
• create new surveillance teams
• roster surveillance visits to a team
• print visit documents
• enter surveillance visit data
• enter lab results
• cancel, confirm and update future surveillance
  visits

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Create Visit Plan
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Create Visit Plan

• At the end of this topic you should be able to
• create a visit plan

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Create Visit Plan

• You are now able to
• create a visit plan

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Organise Surveillance Field Teams
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Organise Surveillance Field Teams

• At the end of this topic you should be able to
• create a new surveillance team

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Organise Surveillance Field Teams

• You are now able to
• create a new surveillance team

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Schedule Surveillance Visit
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Schedule Surveillance Visit

• At the end of this topic you should be able to
• describe the schedule surveillance visit process
• assign surveillance visits to a team
• print visit documents

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Assigning Visits Concepts

• Area of Interest an area defined for the
  purpose of incursion response activity
  (surveillance, organism management) comprised of
  a group of contiguous blocks
• Block a useful spatial entity within an area of
  interest useful for assigning work to teams - an
  area may be approximately a days work for a team

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Area of Interest
Blocks

• All blocks must be inside an Area of Interest
• Blocks must have no gaps
• Blocks can not overlap

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Assigning Visits Concepts, cont

• Strata an area without a permanent defined
  boundary, e.g.
• a swamp or pond that only appears after heavy
  rain
• a bush or forest habitat

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Strata

• Must be inside a block

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Assigning Visits Concepts, cont

• Trap a device to capture a wild animal or
  insect

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Traps

• Must be inside a block

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Assigning Visits Concepts, cont

• Run a series of short visits in a defined
  logical order that will be repeated
• Usually urban properties
• Visit documentation will print in run order

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Assigning Visits Concepts, cont

• Place any building, conveyance, craft, land or
  structure, and the bed and waters of the sea and
  any canal, lake, pond, river, or stream

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Schedule Surveillance Visit

• You are now able to
• describe the schedule surveillance visit process
• assign surveillance visits to a team
• print visit documents

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Evaluate Record Surveillance Visit
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Evaluate Record Surveillance Visit
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Evaluate Record Surveillance Visit

• At the end of this topic you should be able to
• describe the Evaluate and Record Surveillance
  Visit process
• enter surveillance visit data into IRS
• enter lab results
• cancel, confirm and update future surveillance
  visits as required

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Enter Surveillance Data - Concepts

• Surveillance tasks can be recorded at 3 levels
• Individual identified animal
• e.g. cow number 26, official tag 293, angus
• Host as defined for the response
• e.g. 20 beef, 200 sheep, 3 pigs
• Target all hosts on the property
• e.g. 223 hosts for above example

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Enter Surveillance Data - Concepts, cont

• Pre-printed with all Visit Plans with current
  tasks
• Field Team Leader fills in
• New UWO (Unwanted Organism) Status and Reason
• Re-inspection date or ticks No Further Action

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Receive Samples and Send to Lab
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Receive Samples and Send to Lab
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Receive Samples and Send to Lab
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Evaluate Lab Results-Surveillance Visit
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Evaluate Lab Results-Surveillance Visit
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Evaluate Record Surveillance Visit

• You are now able to
• describe the Evaluate and Record Surveillance
  Visit process
• enter surveillance visit data into IRS
• enter lab results
• cancel, confirm and update future surveillance
  visits as required

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Summary

• During this session we
• created a visit plan
• created new surveillance teams
• rostered surveillance visits to a team
• printed visit documents
• entered surveillance visit data
• entered lab results
• cancelled, confirmed and updated future
  surveillance visits