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Company | Elevate Care |
Address | Niles, IL, United States |
Employment type | FULL_TIME |
Salary | |
Category | Hospitals and Health Care |
Expires | 2023-07-17 |
Posted at | 10 months ago |
SUMMARY: Responsible for the Infection Preventionist Program. Evaluates the quality of resident care and resident outcomes as they relate to healthcare–associated infections. Collects, prepares and analyzes healthcare–associated infection data, presents this data, and makes recommendations for actions. Monitors employee compliance in use of barriers and infection prevention measures. Prepares and presents educational offerings for the staff and serves as a resource to all departments and personnel. Implements policies to protect healthcare workers, visitors, and others in the healthcare environment and prevent adverse events. Provides internal and external reporting of information and data and promotes compliance with regulations, guidelines, and accreditation requirements.
- Monitors healthcare-associated infections and any requisite additional precautions
- Calculate nosocomial infection rates each month and communicate rates to the Administrator and Director of Nursing
- Ensures resident and staff vaccination programs are completed timely
- Conduct inservices and competency assessment annually and as indicated
- Participates in short- and long-range planning for the infection prevention department
- Assesses infection prevention problems and makes recommendations for corrective action
- Maintain all aspects of the employee health program are completed and timely
- Ensure the surveillance program is completed in a timely manner and maintain records appropriately
- Participates in performance improvement activities
- Consults with department heads and physicians as needed to improve care
- Reports communicable diseases to the state as required by law
- Performs other duties as directed
- Initiates follow-up on employee/resident exposures to communicable diseases.
- Initiates and reviews infection prevention policies and procedures
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Monitors infection prevention practices for all departments and personnel
- Conducts outbreak investigation and initiates control measures
- Prepares the agenda for the infection prevention committee
- Ensure maintenance of the resident health program including but not limited to the tuberculosis testing and the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines
- Champion the Antibiotic Stewardship Program
- Serves as a resource to all departments
- Provides educational offerings for orientation and ongoing inservices
- Evidence of a high level of skill in assessment, identification of problems, care planning, identification and development of community resources and patient/family teaching required.
- Ability to advocate for the patient/family
- Nurse with current unencumbered state licensure.
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