Infection Prevention Nurse

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• Monitor and ensure that all nursing services personnel follow established infection prevention and control practices and aseptic techniques when caring for residents.
• Establish and maintain an infection surveillance program that is based on standardized definitions of infections.
• Establish, implement and monitor data collection tools for process and outcome surveillance.
• Assist the Director of Environmental Services in developing and implementing guidelines for environmental cleaning and disinfection.
• Review, summarize and report data relative to key infection prevention and control initiatives including antibiotic stewardship, healthcare acquired infections, immunization programs and outbreaks.
• Conduct special investigations pertaining to new or significant trends in infections or communicable diseases.
• Assist the Director of Nursing in preparing the budget for infection prevention and control programs and activities.
• Assist all departments in evaluating and classifying routine and job-related functions to ensure that tasks involving exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified.
• Educate residents and family members on standard and transmission-based precautions.
• Assist and oversee the tracking, administering and record-keeping of required employee immunizations and recommended resident immunizations.
• Order inventories of vaccines to be administered to staff and residents in a timely manner.
• Serve on, participate in and attend Infection Prevention and Control Committee, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Committee and interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings as requested or indicated.
• Implement recommendations from the Infection Prevention and Control Committee.

Candidates must be a licensed RN or LVN with at least 1 year of nursing experience.

Prior Infection Prevention experience (1-2 years minimum) is strongly preferred. IP certification required.

• LVN $45,000-$47,000
• RN $55,000-$58,000

Entry level

Full-time

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Hospitals and Health Care

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