Infection Control Practitioner Job Description
Infection control practitioner
provides comprehensive health care needs of the specific patient population and provide appropriate direct patient care through assessment, diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions.
Infection Control Practitioner Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Reporting communicable diseases to the New York City Department of Health
Consults with Occupational Health Services regarding Employee Health Program as it relates to infectious diseases and infection control employees
Demonstrates knowledge of the basic principles of general, clinical and environmental microbiology in the prevention and control of infection among patients, employees and visitors within the healthcare facility
Maintains awareness of problems in the Hospital and hospital affiliated outpatient areas concerning surveillance of communicable diseases, unsanitary conditions and suboptimal standards of practice which may cause an impact on the safe operation of the institutional functions, and reports such information to the Director and Physician Hospital Epidemiologist for further investigation
Reviews laboratory data and reports communicable diseases to appropriate regulatory agencies
Reviews documentation on maintenance and surveillance of sterilization equipment and sterile supplies
Provides input into the purchase of equipment and supplies used for sterilization, disinfection, and decontamination purposes
Infection Control Practitioner – computer skills, NHSN, CDC data skill set, infection control training of staff and surveillance assessment of microbiology and isolation
Infection Control Practitioner – 2 years experience in a hospital setting with Infection Control, training of staff and surveillance assessment of microbiology and isolation
Reviews microbiology sheets daily on duty and brings potential problems to the Director of Epidemiology
Infection Control Practitioner Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Infection Control Practitioner
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CIC, CPR, BLS, ICP, BRN, ASCP, AED, DEA, GOLD, APIC
Education for Infection Control Practitioner
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the infection control practitioner job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Nursing, Healthcare, Epidemiology, Medical, Education, Microbiology, Patient Care, Computer, Supervision, Legal
Skills for Infection Control Practitioner
Desired skills for infection control practitioner include:
Diseases
Microbiology
Sanitation
Sterilization
Disinfection practice
Principles of epidemiology and inctions
Specific conditions
Treatment therapies for the specific patient/health care worker population of the organization
Patient care practices
CDC classifications of nosocomial infections as defined in the CDC Manual and Epidemiology Department Manual
Desired experience for infection control practitioner includes:
Surveillance, analysis, and reporting of nosocomial infections
Educating employees about infection control
Developing health system policies and procedures to insure rigorous infection control standards that meet JCAHO, OSHA, Public Health Department, and Center for Disease Control requirements
Provide surveillance, analysis and reporting of infections
Develop and implement policies and procedures that ensure rigorous infection prevention and control standards
Presenting analysis of surveillance data to the Infection Control Committee
Infection Control Practitioner Examples
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Infection Control Practitioner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of infection control practitioner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for infection control practitioner
- Reviewing daily microbiology reports, chart reviews, integrating clinical findings, direct patient
- Assisting in developing procedures to prevent healthcare-associated infections that are based on sound epidemiological principles
- Taking necessary action to ensure compliance with established standards of infection control procedures on a hospital-wide basis
- Instituting control measures during an outbreak or other emergency situations after consultation with the Director or Coordinator
- Assisting with employee in-service training and orientation in all departments of the Hospital and primary care sites
- Assisting each department in the identification and implementation of quality control measures that relate to infection control
- Creates and implements in-service programs with respect to infection prevention and control
- Prepares and presents Annual Infection Control Evaluation and Plan
- Coordinates Infection Control Committee meeting, prepares agenda and is responsible for meeting minute’s content meeting all regulatory standards as it pertains to Infection Control
- Infection Control Champion for TJC and responsible for implementing house wide initiatives to ensure uninterrupted compliance
Qualifications for infection control practitioner
- Prepares and maintains Infection Control Manual consistent with federal regulations and TJC standards and ensures any updates are distributed to appropriate departments
- Ensures Committee actions are communicated and acted upon
- Responsible for development and implementation of actions for identified infection control issues utilizing surveillance data
- Identifies areas of improvement and serves as educator for house-wide infection control program and serves as educator for all new employees, new Grads, volunteers and nursing students
- Has over-sight of Infection Control Practitioner and is responsible for training and mentoring
- Identifies documents and reports hospital acquired infections according to the Infection Control Plan
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Our growing company is hiring for an infection control practitioner. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for infection control practitioner
- Review all positive cultures and other laboratory results to identify the need for precautions, interventions and follow-up
- Investigate clusters of infectious disease to identify source of infections
- Observe clinical practice of physicians, nurses and other staff to aide in the identification of outbreak causes
- Identify potential staff training needs to ensure compliance and understanding of precautions and staff use of patient care equipment
- Conduct routine environmental checks
- Ensure new equipment meets standards for infection control
- Performs ongoing infection prevention surveillance activities as directed by the facility's Infection Control Committee
- Reviews implementation of appropriate precautions to reduce hospital acquired infections
- Collaborates with Environment Of Care Team through conducting of environmental rounds in all inpatient and outpatient care areas, construction rounds during active construction projects
- Demonstrates knowledge of epidemiological principles relevant to Infection Prevention and Control
Qualifications for infection control practitioner
- 3 – 5 years of clinical experience in an acute care hospital setting
- Demonstrates knowledge of surveillance methodologies for detection of healthcare-associated infections
- Obtains prevailing wage information from New York State Department of Labor, published surveys or other sources
- Active participation in a professional organization (APIC, SHEA )
- Responsible for attendance and participation by reporting surveillance, outbreak investigation data other pertinent data at Infection Control Committee meetings, other designated committee meetings
- Identifying trends/patterns and managing investigations of infections
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an infection control practitioner. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for infection control practitioner
- Develops and maintains computerized and manual databases necessary to prepare reports and identify significant trends
- Develops infection prevention and control orientation and other education/in-service programs and serves as key internal expert consultant for current information, guidelines, and education on infection prevention and control, occupational safety and public health communicable disease reporting
- Facilitates and monitors compliance with infection prevention and control policies and procedures, Joint Commission standards, and state and local health department requirements
- Infection Control Practitioner – Responsible for development and administration of the facility-wide program for surveillance, prevention, and control of infection under the direction of the Director
- Risk Manager - promotes and enhances patient safety in the facility and helps minimize loss by protecting the facility assets, assists with risk management day-to-day activities including
- Employee Health Nurse – the RN Employee Health provides care to hospital employees, contractors, physicians and volunteers
- Compiles statistics as requested or assigned by Director, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, HIV reports, other reportable disease reports, C difficile, MRSA, VRE, pt satisfaction, isolation fax reports, education fax reports, nurse leader rounding
- Risk Manager – Risk or legal certification with clinical background
- Employee Health Nurse – experience with pre-placement, physicals, medication administration, phlebotomy skills, knowledge of OSHA, CDC, NIOSH and Joint Commission
- Infection Control Practitioner – Infection Control Certification (Preferred)
Qualifications for infection control practitioner
- AZ RN license (or able to obtain) in good standing if candidate is an RN
- Bachelors Degree with a Masters in a health related field is preferred
- A minimum of 2 years experience in a health related field
- Nurse Epidemiology certification preferred
- Conducts surveillance, reporting, data analysis and identifies healthcare associated infections using NHSN criteria, CDC guidelines
- Risk Manager – 3 years as Hospital Risk Manager (Preferred)
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Our company is looking to fill the role of infection control practitioner. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for infection control practitioner
- ICP certification
- Current Florida Healthcare Risk Managers License
- Risk Manager – 2 years as a hospital Risk Manager, Risk or legal certification with clinical background
- Employee Health Nurse – 2 years experience in Employee Health or Occupational Health setting
- Prior clinical leadership role (Preferred)
- Reviews hospital on-going surveillance using appropriate IC criteria, documentation and investigation of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) through review of IMPRO online documentation
- Evaluates effectiveness of the Hospital Infection Control Program, modifying when necessary
- Ensures daily rounding at local hospital to identify procedures and processes associated with risk of infection and implements best practice strategies to reduce risks
- Reviews and interprets data in support of epidemiological studies of specific problem areas to determine the source of the problem and to make recommendations at the local hospital infection control committee
- Conducts analysis of the hospital infection control data to include risk assessment, prevention and control strategies
Qualifications for infection control practitioner
- Conducts surveillance, reporting, data analysis and HAI prevention using NHSN criteria, CDC guidelines
- Supports and oversees hospital infection control committee meetings to support program progression and compliance with identified strategies to reduce risk from infections
- Supports and attends hospital HAI committees to ensure performance improvement strategies are consistent with system plans and goals
- Oversees function of reporting of communicable disease to local and state regulating bodies to ensure compliance at local hospital
- Works with hospital risk manager to report infection outbreaks to the appropriate regulating bodies
- Experience in Information Technology as applied to Infection Control or Public Health, with a working knowledge of and ability to use online services for research, , rL Solutions IMPRO, NHSN
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Infection Control Practitioner Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of infection control practitioner. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for infection control practitioner
- Investigates and accurately characterizes suspected hospital infection problems, including exposures to communicable diseases and occurrences of possible outbreaks
- The Infection Control Practitioner assists the Infection Control Coordinator in the day-to-day management of the hospital-wide infection control program
- This program is designed to identify, control, and prevent hospital-associated infections among patients
- The program is of a dual nature involving the clinical aspects of patient care and the biosafety components of occupational safety and health
- The Infection Control Practitioner is a member of the hospital Infection Control Committee and, in conjunction with the Infection Control Coordinator, has the authority and responsibility to institute appropriate control measures or conduct epidemiological studies, where there is reasonable risk to patients and/or personnel
- Makes rounds to the patient units each day on duty and inquires about community and nosocomial infections
- Teaches infection control one-to-one to all personnel
- Acts as a resource person for patients on isolation and their family members
- Teaches formal classes in Infection Control topics to nurses, volunteers, when requested
- Participates in infection prevention initiatives such as GNYHA CLABS, Cl
Qualifications for infection control practitioner
- Minimum of 1 year RN experience
- Bachelor of Science in healthcare field of study
- RN or MT preferred- MS preferred
- Minimum of two (2) years' experience in hospital infection control
- Minimum of three (3) years in a Psychiatric health care facility, preferred
- Knowledge of Joint Commission, country, state and federal guidelines regarding Infection Control & Employee Health