Cnh RN Ic/Qi/Rm

The Hospital Authority of Miller County•Edison, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Designs, implements, and directs the infection programs for the Nursing Home and manages infectious waste management system. Infection control responsibilities include (but not limited to) surveillance, analysis, reporting activities as well as setting standards and evaluating compliance for practices that are associated with the prevention and control of health care associated infections. Facilitates and coordinates the facility Performance Improvement (QI) Program to assure compliance with Calhoun Nursing Home and other healthcare regulatory agencies to enhance the quality of resident care. Compile, organize, and analyze incident reports and help formulate action plan to reduce risk and incidences. EMPLOYEE HEALTH: Planning, implementing, evaluating, and analyzing employee health services to include pre-employment and annual health assessments, immunizations, work-related exposures, illnesses and injuries. INFECTIOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT: Evaluation, analysis, and establishment of standards for the effective control of special medical waste to include compliance with current regulations that address wastes generated by health care facilities. In order to provide the above services, educations, consultation, and guidance are provided to hospital staff, medical staff, patients/residents, families, and visitors. The program manager complies with the mandates of required accrediting and regulatory agencies and communicates pertinent information to the members of senior management and the medical staff officers.

Requirements

RN with current Georgia state licensure.
Job experience in infection control/epidemiology guidelines and specific regulatory licensure mandates from state and federal agencies.
Knowledge of pertinent regulatory, accrediting, and advisory body requirements including, but not limited to, local and state regulations, and recommendations of the CDC.
Working knowledge and ability to demonstrate a comprehension of medical and nursing education and patient care management, microbiology, pathology, immunology, epidemiology, and medical statistics.
Ability to interact effectively with all levels of health care personnel in these facilities and other health care facilities, public health services at the local, state, and national levels, and the CDC.
Must be able to take a leadership role in cost-effective prevention of transmissible diseases
Active BCLS certification.
Ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in writing.
Basic Computer Skills

Nice To Haves

BS degree desirable.
Additional languages preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, integrate, manage, and control the functional components of the infection control program.
Update and seek approval from administration and the infection control committee annually.
Develop, integrate, manage, and control the functional components of the employee health program.
Update and seek approval from administration and the infection control committee annually.
Organize and maintain a manual that reflects infection control and the infection control committee by serving on committees that facilitate integration of the infection control standards.
Evaluate the effectiveness of current routine and emergency infection control measures practiced in the nursing home.
Develop, integrate, monitor, and evaluate standard practices relating to the control of special medical waste in the facility and the follow up required to comply with the current state regulations relating to special medical wastes.
Communicates directly and/or indirectly with medical and nursing education staff on issues relating to employee health.
Communicates directly and/or indirectly with medical and nursing education staff on issues relating to educational needs of health care providers.
Support and contribute to the quality improvement program by performing statistical analysis of nosocomial infections and trending other indicators that measure quality of care associated with infection control and employee health services.
Performs surveillance activities and applies and epidemiological approach to problem solving.
Provides formal and informal education programs to all personnel.
Makes appropriate and timely recommendations that influence the standard of care and minimize risk of disease transmission.
Analyzes and projects infection risks and potential results of those risks to and from the patients, residents, employee, environment, and the community.
Prepares, evaluates, and reports all patient facility acquired infections, notifies state of notifiable communicable diseases by culture report surveillance, monitors staff infections, and manages all employee exposure incidents from BBP, TB, etc.
Maintains all reports and store IC records in department.
Reports all findings to IC Committee at least on quarterly basis and more frequently if indicated and to Medical Staff when needed.
Maintains all IC Committee meeting minutes and distributes them as indicated.
Develops QI indicators for IC department and implements plans to improve quality of care for patients and residents along with providing safe environmental setting for health care workers, Provides IC QI Coordinator and Committee in established QI reporting manner.
Establishes standards that meet the licensing and/or accrediting guidelines.
Participated in activities associated with the public health department that would be beneficial to the hospital, nursing home, and general public such as annual health fair.
Ensures that IC continuing education programs are provided to all staff (20 percent of time).
Provides updated information to all staff as regulations, practices, and equipment as changes are made to keep hospital and nursing home in compliance with current standards.
Participates in regularly scheduled programs such as new employee general orientation and annual updates.
Prepares the agenda and formulates the minutes for the Performance Improvement Committee meetings
Report data to QI monthly.
Report data to NRC monthly.
Track med errors by nurse and report to DON.
Look for trends with falls, behaviors, etc.
Educate staff about areas of concern.