Infection Prevention Specialist

3 days ago

Augusta, Maine, United States Piedmont HealthCare Full time
Piedmont HealthCare Infection Preventionist Job Description

Job Purpose:

Piedmont HealthCare is seeking a highly skilled Infection Preventionist to lead and drive safety and quality performance improvement initiatives. This role will be responsible for promoting a culture of continuous improvement in the reduction of infections through the use of Lean methodology, coaching, tools, data analysis, reliability, sustainability, and spread.

The successful candidate will manage and support a portfolio of strategic projects using the performance improvement model, ensuring all performance improvement activities are in compliance with regulatory and accreditation bodies. This includes assisting in annual evaluations of infection prevention practices in Piedmont owned physician office practices.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Act as a subject matter expert and resource to entities regarding infection prevention and control measures, including identification of infectious disease processes.
  • Perform healthcare-associated infections surveillance through collection, review, analysis, and interpretation of data from various sources.
  • Implement and ensure compliance of Infection Prevention policies, procedures, and guidelines throughout Piedmont HealthCare.
  • Identify issues of epidemiological/infection prevention and control significance and follow-up with appropriate internal and external departments.
  • Apply an epidemiological approach to problem-solving in leading improvement teams and deliver guidance for the implementation of Evidence-Based Medicine in quality initiatives.
  • Provide consultation and expertise, including prevention and control of the transmission of infectious disease, management of isolation patients, PPE usage, safe injection practices, disinfection, sterilization, environmental cleaning, facilities management, water management, evaluation of new products, such as hand sanitizer.
  • Maintain currency with CMS guidelines, hospital accreditation, and public health as it relates to infection prevention. Participate in hospital-associated regulatory visits, as appropriate.
  • Subject matter expert to assist with annual continuous readiness assessment evaluations of infection prevention practices in Piedmont owned physician office practices.
  • Be knowledgeable of blood-borne pathogens and OSHA standards, exposure control plan.
  • Participate with plant operations, engineering, and construction when completing Infection Control Risk Assessments (ICRAs) for projects with hospitals and Piedmont owned physician office practices, as appropriate.
  • Collaborate with employee health and safety to ensure best practice for employee health-related issues, including exposures.
  • Educate, advise, and consult with physicians, nurses, and healthcare personnel concerning infection prevention practices and deliver prepared staff education programs, including hospital orientations and in-services.
  • Provide patient and family education and assist other healthcare personnel to carry out such teachings as requested by clinical teams.
  • Communicate effectively with executive and leadership teams at entities/provider offices and outside agencies regarding infection prevention practices.
  • Work with operational leaders to identify root causes and trends among healthcare-associated infections.
  • Lead quarterly Infection Prevention Committee Meetings and communicate data and opportunities to appropriate staff at local entities.
  • Determine opportunities for improvement based on data analysis, including activities to decrease healthcare-associated infections and improve patient outcomes.
  • Work collaboratively with infectious disease physicians and/or assigned Chair of Infection Prevention Committee.
  • Lead in the development and implementation of the entity-specific annual infection control plan and risk assessment.
  • Assist and support on infection prevention-related education, projects, and presentation activities.
  • Participate in on-call and coverage assignments, which may include surveillance and analysis activities.

Qualifications:

Minimum Education Required:

Graduate of a Nursing program with a current license in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNLC Multistate License OR Bachelors degree in Medical Technology OR Masters degree in Microbiology, Public Health, Biology, Epidemiology, or other related science field.

Minimum Experience Required:

Four (4) years of previous work experience in a hospital setting, clinical quality, or performance improvement, preferably in infection prevention OR two (2) years of previous work experience with a Masters degree.

Minimum Licensure/Certification Required by Law:

If the degree is in nursing, a current license in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNLC Multistate License is required. OR If a certified Medical Technologist, the certification must be from the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP), AMT (American Medical Technologists) or AAB (American Association of Bioanalysts) according to the qualifications through the State of Georgia Department of Community Health, Healthcare Facility, Clinical Laboratory regulations.

Additional Qualifications:

Certification in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Certification in Infection Control (CIC) from the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC), Lean, QPI preferred.

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