Infection Control Nurse

3 weeks ago

Decatur GA, United States PruittHealth Full time

The Healthcare Center Infection
Preventionist is responsible for the development, direction, implementation,
management and operation of the infection prevention in the healthcare center.
The healthcare center Infection Preventionist conducts ongoing staff
development, training and quality assurance performance improvement monitoring
state health departments. Commission (JC) standards, CMS, OSHA, and state regulations, outbreak
investigation, and overall direction of the infection prevention and control program.
 
Infection Prevention
within the healthcare center to residents/families, partners, providers,
visitors, community, and public health regarding infection prevention and control measures, including
identification of infectious disease processes.
and residents in infection prevention and control practices as it relates to
the transmission of infectious disease, management of isolation of patients,
cleaning, facilities management
(maintenance, renovation and construction), water management, and evaluation of
Assesses the immunization status of residents
and partners, administers vaccines, and educates residents and partners about immunizations.
health history of resident and partners according to TB program guidelines.
laboratory testing, follow-up x-rays, physical examination and therapy for TB
Refers residents and partners for follow-up to
outside agencies for continuity in care for any suspected or confirmed
infectious disease process.
Maintains current knowledge with CMS, state and
federal regulatory agencies and public health guidelines as it relates to
infection prevention.
the risk of blood borne pathogens, OSHA standards, and exposure control plan to
ensure implementation of best practice for occupational health to decrease the
likelihood of exposures to infectious diseases.
Reviews the infection prevention and control
policies and procedures annually and conducts formal partner training on
healthcare center infection prevention and control program.
expert knowledge, guidance, and perform routine risk assessments in infection
prevention and control in consultation and collaboration with infection control
Participates and supports infection prevention
to insure our infection prevention program and processes are utilizing best
organization standards, including documentation in electronic health records,
Provides ongoing infection prevention and
control findings, recommendations, annual reports, policy and procedure updates
through education of clinicians and prescribers, guidelines and data reporting,
Surveillance and
Conducts ongoing healthcare wide surveillance of
healthcare associated infections through collection, review, analysis and
interpretation of data from various sources, (i.e., Tracks and trends surveillance to identify
opportunities for improvement based on data analysis including activities to
decrease healthcare associated infections and improve resident outcomes related
to identified infection control deficiencies.

Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), OR professional training in medical technology, OR professional training in microbiology, OR professional training in epidemiology, OR other related training.
 
Have a minimum of three years of clinical experience in an acute care or long-term care setting or disease surveillance in public   health.
· All infection preventionist are required to complete specialized training in Infection Prevention and Control by either CDC Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Web-based Training Course and/or University of North Carolina Spice Training as a condition of continued employment within three (3) months of   employment.

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