Infection Prevention Specialist

4 hours ago

Granger, Iowa, United States Beacon Health System Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Infection Preventionist to join our team at Beacon Health System. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring compliance with infection control policies and procedures, identifying infection prevention problems, and recommending corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Making surveillance rounds to nursing units and assisting with Infection Prevention problems, identifying of healthcare-associated infections and non-cultured infections, and completing special studies.
  • Collecting and preparing analytical data for the Infection Control Committee; making recommendations and carrying out re-evaluation of problems identified, as indicated.
  • Communicating and providing feedback on data collected to all departments involving physicians, administration, nursing staff, the Infection Control Committee, and managers.
  • Conferring with physicians, nurses, bacteriology laboratory, South Bend Medical Foundation, and others concerning implementation of infection control policies and procedures, identification and isolation of infections, etc.
  • Assisting in the development of performance improvement initiatives and studies; monitoring their progress.
  • Reviewing departmental policies and procedures relating to infection prevention with department heads and/or representatives, hospital-wide infection prevention policies and procedures, and infection prevention plan on an annual or triennial basis.
  • Referring employees exposed to communicable/reportable diseases to the Employee Health Nurse, providing Employee Health with a list of those exposed, and providing input into the Employee Health Program.
  • Conducting or contributing content to formal and informal in-services for patient contact personnel, new employees, orientation, and general hospital employees, as indicated.
  • Developing aides and materials to be utilized in presentations to nursing staff, patients, and others.
  • Actively participating in hospital and county-wide emergency preparedness.
Organizational Responsibilities
  • Serving as a liaison and resource person to all departments in matters of Infection Prevention.
  • Participating on Hospital committees as designated.
  • Completing, submitting, and maintaining a variety of records, reports, and statistical summaries, as required or requested.
Requirements
  • CIC certification required or will obtain within 3 years of hire.
  • A minimum of 2 to 5 years of job-related experience is required.
  • RN, BSN with Certification in Infection Control (CIC) strongly preferred; minimum requirements include Bachelor's degree in a related field with 5 years job-related experience, supervisory, surveillance, and investigation and reporting experience, RN, BSN desirable.
Knowledge and Skills
  • Requires well-developed knowledge of clinical microbiology, general principles of asepsis, transmission methods of infectious disease, epidemiological process, and CDC Infection Control Guidelines.
  • Requires high-level analytical skills necessary to plan, collect, analyze, and report data.
  • Requires well-developed communication skills, verbal and written, to effectively inform, instruct, and facilitate matters of infection prevention.
  • Demonstrates a high level of interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with physicians and hospital staff.
  • Requires proficiency with basic computer skills to navigate through electronic medical records and current surveillance system.
  • Requires ability to maintain strict confidentiality of all information utilized within the department.

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