This Infection Control Nurse (RN/LPN) is accountable for decreasing the incidence and transmission of infectious diseases between patients, staff, visitors and the community. Through strategic planning, leadership and consultation, you will lead and direct a robust team in the identification and implementation of infection prevention goals and objectives throughout the facility.
Essential Functions:
· Develop, implement and evaluate annual infection prevention goals and action plan
· Partners with facility leaders, physicians, local, state, and national agencies on activities related to infection prevention
· Oversees the operations of the infection prevention, epidemiology, industrial hygiene, and relevant safety programs
· Participates in the national collaboratives and external reporting to CDC NHSN system, and other post acute-care specific quality organizations
· Ensure appropriate intervention and education occurs with staff, volunteers and medical staff when healthcare infection trends, outbreaks or non-compliance to infection control occur
Qualifications/Experience:
· Promote and facilitate teamwork
· Must have valid RN or LPN
· Demonstrate a high standard of ethics
· Knowledge of nursing and medical procedures, as well as laws, regulations and guidelines that pertain to nursing care facilities
· Leadership and supervisory skills
· Able to make independent decisions
A Harmonious Approach to Post Acute Care
Symphony Care Network is one of the most innovative providers of post acute, assisted living, and memory care in the United States. We are a proud, family-focused operation that takes a proactive approach to delivering quality outcomes for the guests in our care. With 30 facilities (to date) providing short term post hospital rehabilitation & care, long term care, dedicated memory care, assisted living, independent living & supportive living, Symphony Care Network is dedicated to providing the highest quality of clinical care and related services to each and every guest, patient and resident in our facilities.
While other health care providers work to maintain the status quo, the Symphony Care Network is passionately dedicated to continually improving our level of care.
Our locations share the same goal – to provide the best outcomes for our patients. Working in collaboration with local physicians, nurses and social workers, we are proud to offer the communities we serve the highest level of post acute care.
We’re committed to making every one of our locations the Provider of Choice in the community that they serve by demonstrating an unmatched ability to meet our patients’ needs and offering them a consistently high level of quality care. And judging by our award winning efforts, we’ve been pretty successful. In fact, ten of our facilities have been accredited by the Joint Commission for ensuring the highest standards in the industry.
