QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Currently licensed RN in the state.
• CPR required, advanced life support certification required.
• Demonstrates clinical competency, leadership, and teaching capabilities.
• Physically and emotionally capable of performing responsibilities of position.

• 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.
• Coordinates and implements the activities for the Safety in the Environment of Care programs including:
• Emergency Preparedness.
• Fire and Life Safety.
• Security program.
• Hazardous Materials / Hazardous Communication.
• Management of Medical Equipment program.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting activities related to Safety in the Environment of Care to the Quality Assessment Committee. These include but are not limited to:
• Evaluation of new products for safety.
• Safety Surveillance recorded in the Information Collection and Evaluation System findings.
• MSDS updates.
• Reports on at least one monitor of high risk or high volume safety indicator.
• Coordinates at least one Environment of Care performance improvement activity each year.
• Reviews the Safety in the Environment of Care policies and guidelines for program scope, objectives, performance and effectiveness at least annually and provides recommendations to the QA committee for revision/approval