Infection Prevention Specialist

3 weeks ago


Wheaton Illinois, United States Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Full time
Job Summary

The Infection Preventionist reflects the mission, vision, and values of Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, adheres to the organization's Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Acts as a resource for issues related to infection prevention, as well as patient, staff, and visitor safety.
  • Completes 24/7 on-call assignments as scheduled.
  • Ensures compliance with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Rules and Regulations, including mandatory reporting requirements.
  • Performs surveillance and environment of care rounds on inpatient nursing units, high-risk, and other patient care areas throughout the campus.
  • Provides infection prevention recommendations and ongoing evaluation of construction/renovation projects across the campus to ensure compliance with set standards.
  • Performs active surveillance for healthcare-associated infections, communicable diseases, and exposure events, presents findings in a timely manner to appropriate key stakeholders.
  • Collects and analyzes infection prevention data, prepares and presents reports, and facilitates response plans as needed.
  • In collaboration with departmental resources, performs investigations on all significant clusters of infections, infectious outbreaks, or singular incidents, presents findings to key stakeholders, and advances improvement initiatives.
  • Serves on hospital committees and collaborates with others to advance quality improvements related to hospital performance and patient care.
  • Other responsibilities as designated in the support of organizational priorities.

AA/EOE.



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