Staff - Registered Nurse

Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Infection Control for a nursing job in Joshua Tree, California.

• Specialty: Infection Control
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours
• Employment Type: Staff

Welcome to Hi-Desert Medical Center, where you'll benefit from:

A 59-bed acute primary care facility offering you and your family first-rate health care close to home
A wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach programs
A dedicated team of quality, caring, health care professionals

Position Summary
The Infection Control Preventionist coordinates a comprehensive infection prevention and control program in accordance with current requirements of regulatory, government, and accrediting/licensing agencies and organizational policies and procedures. Duties include surveillance for health care-associated infections (HAIs), collection, analysis, and interpretation of surveillance data, outbreak investigation, and program evaluation. The Director is also responsible for the day-to-day administration of the infection prevention and control program.

Shift: Days

Hours:

Primary Duties
Develop and maintains an infection surveillance, prevention, and control program based on the organizational risk assessment and other needs in accordance with state, federal, and other reporting requirements.

1. Collects, manages, and analyze surveillance data using standardized methodology and defined criteria for HAIs.
2. Organizes and maintains surveillance data and records
3. Reports surveillance data, findings, and analysis to the appropriate committees, patient care units, personnel, and external agencies
4. Monitors patients for the occurrence of communicable diseases, HAIs, and resistant and epidemiologically important organisms
5. Monitors infectious diseases and epidemiologically significant organisms occurring in the community via laboratory reports and public health reports
6. Identifies and evaluates clusters of infections and potential outbreaks
7. Institutes an outbreak investigation and control measures, as needed
8. Recommends isolation precautions according to organization's policies and procedures
9. Develops infection prevention and control policies and procedures in accordance with requirements of regulatory, government, and accrediting/licensing agencies and recommendations of relevant regulations, standards, and evidence-based guidelines.
10. Update policies and procedures, as needed, to maintain compliance with regulations, standards, and evidence-based guidelines
11. Assists the organization to evaluate and maintain readiness for state and accrediting agency surveys
12. Monitor and evaluates the efficacy of infection prevention and control strategies
13. Collaborates with the departments of the facility to design and implement strategies to prevent HAIs and transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms and other epidemiologically important organisms
14. Investigates exposures to communicable disease and initiates appropriate measures to prevent the transmission of disease
15. Maintains confidentiality of patients, personnel, and related information
16. Provides consultation services related to infection prevention and control to the departments
17. Evaluates products, devices, and equipment as relating to infection prevention and control
18. Actively participates in performance improvement activities
19. Maintains departmental records to be in compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies
20. Provides written and verbal reports to administration and relevant committees, departments, personnel, and external agencies
21. Communicates with local and state health departments
22. Participates in orientation programs and required annual education programs
23. Develops or obtains educational material and programs, as needed, for personnel, patients and visitors
24. Collaborates with employee health personnel on matters such as exposure management and immunization
25. Works with facilities management and other personnel to evaluate infection risks associated with renovation and construction projects and to identify control measures
26. Leads the Infection Control Committee collaboratively with the designated medical director, participates in Quality Council and the Supply Management Action and Resource Team.

Tenet Desert Job ID . Posted job title: Infection Preventionist Full Time Days