EDEN EAST Is a portfolio of skilled nursing. As an industry-leading provider of post-acute care, Eden East has been dedicated to changing the way healthcare is delivered. We are passionate about elevating and enhancing our employees as they are the core of the care and love we aim for, cultivating a family-like environment to ensure our residents are treated like family.
Edenbrook South, a well-established and a trusted provider in the skilled nursing space, and a proud member of Eden East, is looking for an
Infection Prevention Nurse to enrich the lives of our residents.
Position: RN Infection Preventionist
The Infection Preventionist is responsible for identifying, managing, and implementing infection prevention and control measures within the facility. The role involves collecting and analyzing infection-related data, educating staff, and ensuring compliance with relevant guidelines and regulations to minimize the risk of infection transmission.
Main Job Responsibilities
- Identify and maintain effective methods to gather infection prevention and control related information.
- Coordinate and monitor monthly departmental infection control rounds processes.
- Collect, analyze and provide infection information on in-house infections to nursing staff and other healthcare practitioners.
- Investigate and identify control procedures and risk minimizing measures, including employee health transmission and risk.
- Monitor appropriateness or precautionary procedures for individual patients.
- Maintain records of infections, procedures, outcomes related to infections and risk assessment, prevention and minimizing activities.
- Coordinate completion of ongoing immunization tracking activities and implement measures to improve compliance, including influence, pneumococcal and tuberculosis.
- Review infection and prevalence rates monthly providing recommendations to the Infection Control or Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Committee.
- Recommend education for employees and other healthcare practitioners to minimize, prevent and control infections.
- Educate newly hired center staff on infection prevention and control techniques including hand hygiene, blood borne pathogens, PPE utilization and sharps handling.
- Collaborate with Administrator, Medical Director or his/her designee, DON and Department managers on infection prevention and control protocols and practices.
- Collaborate with the Human Resources Director on exposure control plan and follow-up.
- Evaluate the availability of materials and equipment for infection prevention and control.
- Coordinate outbreak investigations with the Director of Nursing and Medical Director
- Monitor change sin state and federal regulations and current industry-stand practices.
- Contact state and local health departments, for specific regional guidelines, such as tuberculosis, outbreak investigations, etc.
- Provide monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Committee.
- Complete annual tuberculosis risk survey.
- Prepare recommendations for changes in center practice to the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Committe
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania
- Previous Staff Development, Infection Control or Nurse Management experience
- 3 years of previous skilled nursing experience
- Knowledge/familiarity of state and federal survey processes
- Knowledge/familiarity of state and federal regulations
Benefits & Perks
- Health, Dental and Vision benefits
- Vacation/Holiday/PTO
- 401k
- Great culture and working environment
- Career growth opportunities
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