Clinical Abstractor Nurse

USPI•Phoenix, AZ

45d•Onsite

About The Position

Welcome to USPI St Joesphs Outpatient Surgery Center. USPI St Joesphs Outpatient Surgery Center is a fast-paced ASC environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families. Job Summary: Provides a program in the environment of care. These responsibilities are in addition to the primary role concerning patient care. Demonstrates the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical and financial operations.

Responsibilities

Provides employee education for the prevention of infection.
Provides Infection Control post-operative surveillance, data collection, assessment, measurement, and reports findings to the Quality Assessment Committee.
Provides surveillance and assessment of infection control practices related to Standard Precautions, Transmission Precautions, and Exposure Control.
Provides facility surveillance related to infection control.
Serves as the facility resource person for infection control.
Provides review for the appropriateness of agents used for disinfecting and antisepsis.
Reports activities related to infection control to the Quality Assessment Committee.
Reviews the Infection Control policies and guidelines for program scope, objectives, performance and effectiveness at least annually and provides recommendations to the PI committee for revision/approval.
Assists with employee Infection Control orientation and in-services.
Follows the Center's professional conduct and dress code policy.
Maintains patient, physician, and employee privacy and confidentiality per policy.
Acts in accordance with the vision, mission, and business philosophy of the Center.
Assists with other responsibilities of center as deemed necessary by management.
The timely management and reporting of any safety/security issue or occurrence.