Registered Nurse - Infection Control

Registered Nurse - Infection Control

The Trail of the Ancients Byway The Community Navajo Nation, Shiprock, NM Witness the sculpted horizons of the southwest, where man-made boundaries mean nothing to the rugged lands. Here the past is the present where Hopi families still carry water to pueblo villages perched atop high mesas. Granaries at Keet Seel ruins in Navajo National Monument hold corn cobs stored seven centuries ago. Navajo families farm centuries-old field in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, site of prehistoric cliff dwelling inhabited by the Anasazi, ancestors of today's Pueblo Tribes. And Hopi and Navajo artisans still sell their trademark rugs and jewelry at the Hubble Trading Post. Explore the Four Corners Region

Requirements (Duties include but are not limited to)

• Performing comprehensive surveillance for healthcare-associated infections and epidemiology significant organisms and create, implement, support and sustain evidence based interventions to prevent them through the following methods:
• Apply epidemiologic principles and statistical methods, including risk stratification, to identify target population, analyze trends and risk factors, and design and evaluate prevention and control strategies.
• Conduct on-going surveillance using Center of Disease Control (CDC) infection criteria, documentation, and investigation of healthcare acquired infections through review of admission diagnoses, microbiology culture results, isolation orders, patient records, consultation requests, post-discharge surveillance, and autopsy findings.
• Assess environmental control through surveillance of water supply systems as needed, air pressure relationships for high risk environmental monitoring.
• Conduct environmental rounds in all inpatient and outpatient care areas.
• Collect data on the incidence of selected device use in intensive care units and other patient care areas.
• Directs investigations of unusual hospital infection outbreaks utilizing the microbiology laboratory, consultation with Infectious Disease Division, county/state public health departments, and when necessary in consultation with the Center for Disease Control. Report epidemiologically significant findings to appropriate customers.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the surveillance plan and modifies as necessary.
• Responsible for the implementation and evaluation of the Service Unit Infection Control (IC) Program including the TB program and Infection Control and Prevention Plan. Assures that the programs meet all regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Collect data and prepare reports in support of epidemiological studies of specific problems or problem areas to determine the source of the problem and make appropriate recommendations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Possess a current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth or Puerto Rico or a Territory of the United States.
• BLS Certification

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