Clinical Abstractor/Infection Control Nurse

                                                        USPI St Joesphs Outpatient Surgery Center is hiring a Clinical Abstractor/Infection Control Nurse Full Time

Welcome to USPI St Joesphs Outpatient Surgery Center. USPI St Joesphs 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.

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.
• Coordinates and implements the activities for the Safety in the Environment of Care programs including:

1. Emergency Preparedness.
2. Fire and Life Safety.
3. Security program.
4. Hazardous Materials / Hazardous Communication.
5. Management of Medical Equipment program.

• Responsible for monitoring and reporting activities related to Safety in the Environment of Care to the Quality Assessment Committee. These include but are not limited to:

1. Evaluation of new products for safety.
2. Safety Surveillance recorded in the Information Collection and Evaluation System findings.
3. MSDS updates.
4. Reports on at least one monitor of high risk or high volume safety indicator.
5. Coordinates at least one Environment of Care performance improvement activity each year.
6. Reviews the Safety in the Environment of Care policies and guidelines for program scope, objectives, performance and effectiveness at least annually and provides recommendations to the QA committee for revision/approval.

Qualifications: 

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