Infection Prevention Nurse Manager

Description

Join the Hooverwood Living Family!

Hooverwood Living is looking for a friendly, dedicated Infection Prevention Nurse Manager to help support our nursing team!

With over 100 years of excellent care to the elderly in central Indiana, we offer:

Skilled Nursing, Short Term Rehab, Memory Care, Assisted Living, Transportation, Indiana's Only Elder Abuse Shelter, A.R.N. Hospice, and we are still growing!

Who is Hooverwood Living?

Hooverwood Living is committed to providing excellent patient care, customer service skills, and a family-orientated environment. We are also a driving force in the healthcare industry, along with promoting and maintaining a wide diversity of staff members, providing the latest technology, and offering varied lines of services.

Job Description:

Infection Prevention Nurse reports to the Director of Nursing and partners with the Medical Director and Staff responsible for Antimicrobial Stewardship and others to develop a system of care that promotes sound and scientific infection prevention principles and practices. The Infection Preventionist is responsible for the facility infection prevention and control program which is designed to provide a safe, sanitary, and comfortable environment and to help prevent the development and transmission of communicable diseases and infections.

Essential functions include but not limited to:

• Oversight of the IPCP, which includes at a minimum, the following elements:
• A system for preventing, identifying, reporting, investigating, and controlling infections and communicable diseases for all residents, staff, volunteers, visitors, and other individuals providing services under a contractual arrangement based on the facility assessment and following accepted national standards;
• Written standards policies, and procedures for the program, which must include, but are not limited to:
  • A system of surveillance designed to identify possible communicable diseases or infections before they can spread to other persons in the facility
  • When and to whom possible incidents of communicable disease or infections should be reported;
  • Standard and transmission-based precautions to be followed to prevent spread of infections;
  • When and how isolation should be used for a resident; including but not limited to:
    • The type and duration of the isolation, depending upon the infectious agent or organism involved, and a requirement that the isolation should be the least restrictive possible for the resident under the circumstances.
    • The circumstances under which the facility must prohibit employees with a communicable disease or infected skin lesions from direct contact with residents or their food, if direct contact will transmit disease; and
    • The hygiene procedures to be followed by staff involved in direct resident contact.
  • A system for recording incidents identified under the facility’s IPCP and the corrective actions taken by the facility
  • Personnel must handle, store, process and transport linens so as to prevent the spread of infection

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Valid RN license in the state of employment or Compact license
• Collaborate with the facility leadership and the medical director to develop, implement and evaluate the annual infection prevention goals and action plan
• Partner with facility leaders, physicians and local, state and national agencies on activities related to infection prevention
• Establish a facility-wide system
• Conduct outbreak investigations
• Maintain a system for reporting possible incidents of communicable diseases to local, state or national agencies as required
• Oversee the antibiotic stewardship program and monitor residents’ antibiotic use
• Assess the need for, develop, and present IPCP in-service education for individual departments, general orientation, and annual review as needed; education includes but not limited to:
  • Hand hygiene
  • Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
  • Specific direct and indirect care settings
  • Therapeutic and diagnostic procedures and devices
  • Use of isolation/ barrier precautions when indicated
  • Resident placement, transfer and discharge
• Environmental hazards
• Use of patient care products and medical equipment
• Resident immunization programs
• Assess the need for, develop, and implement written policies