Preventionist-Infection & Employee Health RN

Responsibilities

• Performs Infection Prevention surveillance for hospital-acquired infections based on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) guidelines.
• Reports communicable diseases to the health department, as required.
• Notifies System Infection Prevention Director and entity Quality Director of any identified trends or issues.
• Ensures correct isolation procedures are practiced.
• Proactively and consistently monitors the healthcare environment to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and infection prevention policies and procedures.
• Adds addresses deficiencies proactively by providing feedback and guidance to leaders regarding infection prevention issues.
• Participates in quality and process improvement initiatives addressing infection prevention issues.
• Collaborates with Employee Health on safety and exposure issues.
• Demonstrates the ability to build trusting collaborative relationships with multi-disciplinary teams to support patient care needs.
• Actively participates in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• Demonstrates ability to apply evidence-based practice guidelines and regulatory standards (CMS, TJC, DNV-GL, OSHA, etc.) when: assessing the environment; observing patient care activities and processes and developing/revising policies and procedures.
• Acts as the subject matter expert and leader regarding infection prevention issues.
• Develops or assists in the development, implementation and evaluation of the Infection Prevention Plan.
• Participates in performance improvement projects to address these goals.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of Infection Prevention data.
• Presents and discusses pertinent data at various committee meetings.
• Prepares and presents educational workshops, lectures, discussions or one-to-one instruction on infection prevention topics.

Requirements

• Minimum Required: Three years clinical experience as an RN.
• Preferred/Desired: Two years Infection Prevention experience.
• Education: Minimum Required - BSN.
• Licensure: Minimum Required - Current licensure as RN; Certification in Infection Control (CIC) through the National Certification Board of Infection Control required or attain within three (3) years of hire.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Infection Prevention including regulatory requirements commensurate with education/experience.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills in evaluating and resolving complex issues.

Skills

• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of staff, management and physicians.
• Ability to work without close supervision and to exercise independent judgement in a professional area.
• Ability to organize multiple tasks and projects and maintain control of work flow.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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