Infection Control Nurse

Infection Control Nurse at Midwest Health, Inc. – Topeka, KS

• Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift as required.
• Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating nursing services to ensure that the resident's total regimen of care is maintained.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions.
• Participate in facility surveys and inspections made by authorized government agencies as requested.
• Interpret the department's policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies as required.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.
• Perform routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility's policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.
• Review care plans daily to ensure that appropriate care is being rendered.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information.
• Implement and manage facility’s infection control protocols and standards.
• Keep facility up to date on all CDC guidelines.
• Stay up to date on the latest medical and clinical literature around the diagnosis, care, treatment, and risk factors associated with infectious diseases.
• Accurately document and report infection control data to appropriate sources.
• Provide infection control education to staff as directed.
• Manage testing for the facility.
• Provide oversight over all infection control procedures.
• Gather infection data, facts and trends for other healthcare personnel.
• Provide training and education to other medical professionals on prevention techniques.
• Develop plans to prevent patients from spreading diseases throughout the facility.
• Coordinate or lead an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Program.
• Reinforce implementation of infection control practices per CDC guidelines.
• Reduce infection rates within the facility.
• Determine the origin of a particular pathogen by studying its makeup and composition.
• Partner with the Medical Director for Epidemiology/Infectious Disease to develop, implement and evaluate annual infection prevention goals and actions.

• Regular worksite attendance.
• Must have a valid professional license (RN/LPN) that is in good standing with the State.
• Must have a valid CPR certification.
• Must have basic computer skills.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Must be able to work beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary.
• Must be able to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.
• Must be able to perform the essential position functions of the job with, or without reasonable accommodation.
• Employee is required to use a transfer/gait belt or to obtain the assistance of another employee when attempting to assist residents when lifting or carrying objects in excess of 25 pounds.
• Primary
  
  Physical Requirements:
• Lift up to 10 lbs:
  Frequently
• Lift 11 to 25 lbs:
  Rarely
• Lift 26 to 50 lbs:
  Rarely
• Lift over 50 lbs:
  Rarely
• Carry up to 10 lbs:
  Occasionally
• Carry 11 to 25 lbs:
  Rarely
• Carry 26 to 50 lbs:
  Rarely
• Carry over 50 lbs:
  Rarely
• Reach above shoulder height:
  Frequently
• Reach at shoulder height:
  Constantly
• Reach below shoulder height:
  Frequently
• Push/Pull:
  Constantly
• Hand Manipulation:
• Grasping:
  Constantly
• Handling:
  Constantly
• Torquing:
  Rarely
• Fingering:
  Constantly
• Other Physical Considerations:
• Twisting, Bending, Crawling, Squatting, Kneeling, Crouching, Climbing and Balancing is required.
• Employee may be required to operate an automobile.
• Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset and hostile people within the Facility.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
• Location:
  
  Topeka, KS