Surveillance Infection Prevention Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) Coordinator Infection Prevention you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Wesley Medical Center which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Position Summary: The Infection Control Practitioner plans, organizes, develops, and implements Wesley Healthcare’s infection prevention and control program in accordance to applicable federal, state and local standards. Program components include surveillance, education, consultation, mandated reporting, and regulatory preparedness. This position will assume shared responsibility for the management of surveillance, prevention, and control of infections hospital wide and will collaborate and communicate with other departments to ensure that staff are educated on optimal infection prevention and control practices. Strong computer skills are required. These practices will be delineated, shared, maintained, and regularly reviewed.  

Job Responsibilities: 

Demonstrates the ability to adapt technique/treatment to age of population served, including newborn, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients, while providing care/service withrespect to cultural differences and spiritual needs.  

Surveillance:  

• Implements a surveillance system for the organization  
• Assesses, develops, and monitors surveillance methodology  
• Uses written criteria for defining infections  
• Analyzes surveillance data  
• Develops forms for recording data  
• Determines the incidence of healthcare associated infections  
• Communicates with local and state health departments regarding surveillance, outbreaks, epidemiology, and other information required for preparedness and response activities 

 Identifies and isolates patients with communicable diseases, healthcare associated infections, resistant organisms:  

• Identifies clusters of infections  
• Recommend and implements isolation precautions  
• Analyze antimicrobial sensitivity patterns  
• Interpret epidemiologic markers in outbreak investigations  
• Interpret results of laboratory findings 

Prevention Practices:  

• Monitors and evaluates the quality of infection control and epidemiology/disease transmission to establish best infection control practices  
• Collaborates with all department s of the healthcare facility to design and implement strategies to prevent healthcare associated infections, manage healthcare associated infections and multidrug resistant organisms  
• Works with facility staff to implement infection control prevention practices.  
• Observes and evaluates techniques and practices at all levels of health care  
• Serves as a community liaison and hospital spokesperson, as available, to communicate information for public use and publication 
• Exposures to Communicable Disease:  
• Investigates exposures to communicable disease and initiates appropriate measures to prevent the transmission of disease  
• Completes investigations in a timely manner  
• Creates a line list of patients involved in the outbreaks 
• Communicates information to appropriate personnel  

 Consultation Service:  

• Provides consulting services to healthcare facility departments  
• Provides clinical expertise regarding management of complex communicability, transmission, and reporting of infectious disease  
• Performs assessment to identify issues for investigation  
• Develops a plan of action encompassing facility -wide engagement  
• Creates strategies to implement plans  
• Evaluate outcomes 

Policies and Procedures:  

• Reviews/revises facility and departmental policies and procedures according to department plan  
• Updates policies to maintain compliance with standards, regulation and guidelines  
• Presents new policies/revisions to healthcare facility committees  
• Serves as IC expert, in consort with the Infection Control Medical Director for the facility  
• Conducts reviews of literature as needed to support practices and ascertain best practice implementation

Performance Improvement:  

• Utilizes Quality Improvement tools  
• Evaluates products and equipment  
• Takes action to change infection control practice that will improve patient outcomes  
• Collaborates with the IC team at a Division level, including attending meetings, reviewing processes and sharing best practices  
• Assists in the review of Core Measure compliance and process improvement organization - wide  
• Oversees infection control practices for affiliated organizations such as dialysis providers  
• Represents the facility in professional organizations such as APIC  
• Works collaboratively with the manager of Regulatory Compliance to assure congruence with TJC, CMS, CDC, and KDHE requirements regarding infection control 

Education and Training:  

• Participates in orientation programs and required annual education programs  
• Develops programs to increase the knowledge and skill of staff  
• Creates and/or implement audiovisual and written materials for education 
• Performs all other duties as assigned  

Required Education or Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or medical technology, or related field. 

Preferred Registration, Licensure and/or Certification:  

• Current Certification in Infection Prevention and Control   
• Current registration or license with experience in the state of Kansas as a Registered Professional Nurse, medical technologist, or clinical laboratory scientist preferred 

Preferred Education or Experience: 

• Master’s degree in public health is preferred.  
• Minimum of 1-3 years of infection prevention and control experience  
• Knowledge in hospital epidemiology principles, infectious diseases, sterilization, sanitation, and disinfection practice 

 Required Knowledge and Skills: 

• Knowledge of principles, practices, procedures and patient safety principles in infection control and prevention in the patient care environment 

Preferred Knowledge and Skills: 

• Above to teach subject matter to others or train other through explanation, demonstration, and supervised practice or make recommendation on the basis of technical disciplines  
• Excellent organization skills  
• Ability to successfully handle multiple priorities and prioritize and schedule accordingly  
• Must be able to successfully and effectively communicate with a variety of personnel, patients and physicians  
• Team building, conflict resolution, and communication skills, both verbal and written  
• Ability to develop facility educational and research policies and programs, quality improvement programs, and operational policies and procedures  
• Work collaboratively with other departments and physicians  
• Ability to use professional judgement to identify areas for improvement and participate in development of quality initiatives  
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office 

Wesley Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

For more than 100 years, Wesley Healthcare has provided exceptional care to thousands of families in Wichita and throughout Kansas and Northern Oklahoma. Wesley Medical Center is a member of the Wesley Healthcare network within Greater Wichita and has been an HCA Healthcare hospital since 1985.

Our physicians treat more than 24,000 patients annually, making Wesley Medical Center the most preferred hospital in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Additionally, our obstetricians and childbirth staff deliver more than 6,000 babies each year, more than any hospital in a 13-state region.

Home to Wesley Children's Hospital, the region's first and Wichita's only children's hospital, we care for children in a unique space designed specially for kids and their families. And as a Level I Trauma Center and the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in Kansas, we are prepared to treat any medical emergency, any time of day.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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