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Job Posting Title:

Infection Prevention Nurse

Location:

Dallas - Hospital

Additional Posting Details:

Monday - Friday

7 am - 3:30 pm

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

• Ensure hospital compliance with the Joint Commission and other regulatory standards for Infection Prevention and Control
• Perform infection surveillance including medical record review, data collection, aggregation, analysis, and trend identification 
• Conducts outbreak investigations and initiates control measures
• Oversees the monitoring of infection prevention practices for all departments and personnel
• Reports communicable diseases to the state as required by law
• Initiates, reviews, and revises infection prevention risk assessment, plan, policies, and procedures
• Serves as Chair for the Infection Prevention subcommittee and reports to the QAPI committee
• Provides educational offerings for new employee orientation and ongoing in-services
• Communicate regularly with the Infection Control Medical Advisor regarding individual infection cases, identified trends and other infection control matters 
• Consults with department heads and physicians as needed to improve care
• Initiates follow-up on employee/patient exposures to communicable diseases
  and employee compliance
• Serves as a resource for all departments and staff as needed
• Participates in performance improvement activities
• Performs other duties as directed

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Required Skills/Abilities

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing
• Holds current Texas RN license from the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners
• Certified Infection Control certification required or must be obtained within 12 months of employment
• BLS is required
• Minimum 5 years of recent clinical experience required 
• Minimum 3 years of infection control experience preferred
• Understanding of statistical analysis preferred
• Ability to problem solve and develop action plans that will prove helpful in achieving measurable objectives
• Ability to work with EMR, spreadsheets, databases, and application of basic software: MS Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary groups
• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills, good organizational and time management skills​