Title: INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER

Fulltime Opportunity with Major Medical Center

Location: New Jersey

NOTE:

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE in an ACUTE CARE FACILITY
MUST HAVE A B.A. in NURSING or MICROBIOLOGY
MUST BE A REGISTERED NURSE
MUST HAVE CERTIFICATION or BE IN THE PROCESS OF SCHEDULING THE ICP TEST

SUMMARY OF JOB FUNCTIONS:

· The Infection Control Practitioner collects, analyzes, and presents data relevant to infection control/infectious diseases.

· Provides education based upon identified need of associates and in accordance with approved infection control policies and procedures.

· Develops policies and procedures regarding infection control.

· Facilitates at the Infection Control Committee and participates in other committees as assigned.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

· Nurse or completed an Accredited Bachelor Degree Program

· Certification in Infection Control

· Maintains required BLS Heart Saver/Health care provider course completion status

· Successful completion of all orientation programs.

· Able to interpret and classify infections appropriately; healthcare acquired versus community acquired infections.

· Able to utilize work processing and excel software in the presentation of surveillance data.

· Able to understand significantly important organisms and investigate further as needed.

· Promotes the Infection Control principles in educational programs, policy development, and informal discussions with all members of the healthcare team.

· Able to clinically evaluate laboratory results in conducting surveillance and implementing/maintaining isolation precautions.

· Performs all other duties as assigned.

· Provides a compassionate and supportive environment with prompt and consistent service.

· Utilizes principles of continuous quality improvement in all work situations to assess, measure and improve organizational and department functions.

· Adheres to patient rights: provides for the confidential treatment of all communications and records.

· Organizes work sets priorities with a minimum of supervision and seeks guidance as appropriate.

· Demonstrates professionalism with families, visitors, Physicians, co-workers and supervisors.

· Makes decisions that are timely and consistent with department, objectives, policies and procedures.

· Listens and communicates effectively.

· Demonstrates sound judgment; accepts and benefits from constructive criticism.

· Supports teamwork by cooperative problem solving through participation in meetings.

· Participates in ongoing education as required.

· Obtains/maintains Certification in Infection Control.

· Maintains current knowledge reflected in a review of literature.

· Attends/participates in at least one infection control conference annually.

· Demonstrates knowledge of codes, and responds as appropriate.

· Responds appropriately to emergency situations.

· Documents staff/patient incidents and notifies individuals of the events.

· Utilizes and adheres to proper precautions with hazardous materials and proper waste disposal.

· Utilizes effective infection control practices, such as hand washing, glove disposal, etc.

· Maintains proper body mechanics in the performance of job duties.

· Demonstrates correct operation of equipment, troubleshoots, and reports malfunctioning/broken equipment and removes from service.

· Is knowledgeable of, adheres to and promotes the Compliance Code of Conduct.

· Demonstrates ability to troubleshoot equipment when difficulties are experienced, reports malfunctioning/broken equipment and removes from service.

If you are interested in the above position, please send me an email and include the following:

-MS Word Resume
-Current and Required Compensation
-Contact Information

Upon receipt of this information, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the opportunity in full.

Michael Muscarello
Senior Recruiter - Americas
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
180 Varick Street

New York, NY 10014
Voice: 212-248-0100
Email: mmusc@intermediagroup.com

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