Job responsibilities

• Registered Nurse with Infection Control experience.
• Implements plans, develops, directs, and evaluates infection prevention within the facility.
• Investigates infection control problems and arranges follow-up care for residents exposed to infectious diseases.
• Responsible for surveillance, tracking, and reporting of infections and/or outbreaks.
• Conducts rounds, discussing and monitoring infection control practices with staff
• Collect infection data from departments and maintains records for each case.
• Trains staff on implementation of infection control practices.
• Investigates incidents of infection, and reports such incidents to the Director of Nursing
• Ensures availability of supplies required for infection control
• Oversees and implements all COVID-19 policies, COVID-19 prevention programs.
• Develops education programs in response infection control needs identified through Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement, rounding and center quality measures
• Conducts on-going surveillance using Center of Disease Control (CDC) infection criteria, documentation, and investigation of hospital acquired infections through review of admission diagnoses, microbiology culture results, isolation orders, patient records, consultation requests etc.
• Conducts environmental rounds in all inpatient areas weekly.
• Participates in quality assurance performance improvement activities by assessing, monitoring, and measuring hospital acquired infections and evaluating outcomes on a continuous basis.

Pay quotes are an estimate of gross weekly pay, including non-taxable reimbursements, based on available information and subject to confirmation.

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