Licensed Vocational Nurses, LVN

The Infection Preventionist -- LPN is responsible for the nursing center's Infection Prevention and Control Program (IPCP) and functions as a practitioner, resource, consultant, educator and facilitator for staff in multiple nursing centers focusing on Infection Prevention - Control Activities, Employee Health, Outbreak Management and Outcome - Process Surveillance, to include identifying, investigating, analyzing, controlling and reporting infections.

 

*Ensure the quality of patient care as it relates to the investigation, control and prevention of infections and communicable diseases.
*Integrate the Infection Control and Prevention program with the nursing centers' QAPI processes, is a member of the Center's QAPI committee, and regularly reports on the status on the IPCP.
*Develop, implement and teach education programs in response to identified infection control needs identified through QAPI, rounding, center quality measures, or other means.
*Support new hire orientation by providing infection prevention and control training for newly hired employees.
*Review the immunization documentation for new hires to ensure regulatory compliance.
*Oversee implementation and quality of the patient/resident influenza and pneumococcal vaccine.
*Maintain infection prevention and control records per policy and regulatory requirements.