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Infection Prevention Specialist
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
5 days ago
$80,000 – $105,000 / year
- infection control
- CMS
- HIPAA
- Health insurance
5 days ago
Key Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in applied clinical science (Nursing, Medical Technology, Microbiology, Public Health).
- Infection Control/Prevention specialist with 2 plus years' experience.
- Certification in CIC form the CDC is ideal but not a must.
- Hospital experience is a huge plus.
- Interprets nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs)
- Uses information management systems for:
- Data entry and retrieval.
- Data collection and organization.
- Data analysis and evaluation.
- Required Reporting.
- Integration of diverse sources of data.
- Interprets Wyoming Department of Health standards, CMS Conditions of Participation (COP), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards, information on CDC websites, and medical/legal concepts regarding healthcare data.
- Completes data entry into the National Health Safety Network (NHSN) on a timely basis.
- Applies knowledge and skills regarding quality improvement tools and techniques, including statistical process control.
- Establishes, implements, and administers infection prevention program goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
- Conducts an ongoing review of hospital policies, procedures, and guidelines to identify infection prevention discrepancies and implement revisions as necessary.
- Ensures that the infection prevention program goals are compatible with and enhance the facility's mission, vision, values, and strategic plan.
- Provides information to facility committees and department managers to formulate changes in the policies, procedures, and/or processes which could reduce the spread of infection.
- Interacts with medical and nursing staff, department managers, supervisors, employee health (occupational health), and other professional/non-professional staff members to provide resource information, resolve infection prevention and control issues, and identify new opportunities to improve services and reduce cost.
- Develops reports and statistical data for the Board Quality Council, medical staff committees, medical executive committee, and the facility's administration, as well as other committees as needed.
- Performs an annual risk assessment and developing action plans from the prior year's activities, which may include the development of a dashboard to maintain monthly data.
- Makes recommendations regarding construction and renovation projects, and participation in all Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) activities and environmental rounds; this includes assuring compliance with national and/or professional standards.
- Develops and updates the Blood-Borne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan.
- Conducts outbreak investigations which includes knowing what constitutes an outbreak
- Reviews the Wyoming Department of Health's Reportable Disease and Conditions requirements and ensuring they are met.
- Reviews all laboratory results for multi-drug-resistant-organisms (MDRO).
- Enters data into the NHSN reporting system according to the facility's reporting plan:
- Enters data into the NHSH reporting system.
- Maintains compliance with hand hygiene and precaution policies; this information is reviewed with the clinical department managers.
- Reviews the facility's data, and develops goals for the reduction of HAIs in conjunction with the IPC, reviews national data for HAIs.
- Performs additional duties assigned.
Infection Prevention Specialist · Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited