Clinical Abstractor Nurse

Clinical Abstractor Nurse

USPI St Josephs Outpatient Surgery Center is hiring a Clinical Abstractor Nurse Full Time. USPI St Josephs Outpatient Surgery Center is a fast-paced ASC environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families.

Job Summary: Provides a program in the environment of care. These responsibilities are in addition to the primary role concerning patient care. Demonstrates the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical and financial operations. There is also covering OR and Pre OP PACU RN when needed.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: The following description of the job responsibilities and performance expectations are intended to reflect the major responsibilities of the job, but is not intended to describe the minor duties or other responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to perform the essential functions.

• 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.

What We Offer

As an organization, one way we care for our communities and each other is by providing a comprehensive benefits package that includes the following, subject to employment status:

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
• Life and AD&D coverage
• Availability of short- and long-term disability
• Flexible financial benefits including FSAs and HSAs
• 401(k) and access to retirement planning
• Paid holidays and vacation

Who We Are

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and healthcare systems to provide first-class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.

Required Skills:

Qualifications:

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