Infection Preventionist
You'll review hospital-acquired infections, manage transmission-based precautions, teach staff, and run environment-of-care and construction risk rounds. Parkview Health is hiring for its own floors, with no agency in between.
- Shift and hours
- Flexible hours required Must be ale to work flexible hours40 hours a week
- License
- RN license Nursing Degree candidates must have current Indiana RN licenseCurrent Indiana RN license
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current Indiana RN license Nursing Degree candidates must have current Indiana RN license Check your license
- Certification
- Current ASCP certification (lab science candidates) Laboratory Degree candidates must have current ASCP certification
- Certification
- CIC within 3 years of hire
- Education
- ASN or BSN from an accredited program Must be a graduate of an accredited ASN or BSN program
- Education
- Bachelor's in laboratory science (alternative path) or have a Bachelor’s degree in laboratory science
- Education
- Master's in Public Health (alternative path) or have a Master’s Degree in Public Health
- Education
- BSN within five years of employment if you start with an ASN Nurses with ASN, must obtain BSN from an accredited program within five years of employment or will not be eligible to continue nursing employment with Parkview.
- Experience
- Experience in infection prevention, nursing, laboratory science, or public health Relevant experience in infection prevention, nursing, laboratory science, or public health required.
- Also asks
- Good verbal and written communication skills Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
- Also asks
- Able to teach across varied audiences and methods Ability to effectively facilitate educational sessions to various audiences
Preferred
- Certification
- CIC certification at hire All candidates, CIC preferred upon hire or must be obtained within 3 years of hire into position.
- Also asks
- Strong interpersonal skills and problem solving Ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills, and will be an efficient and effective problem solver.
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- Reviewing hospital-acquired infections and following up hospital acquired infection review and follow up
- Day to day
- Managing transmission-based precautions management of transmission based precautions
- Day to day
- Teaching staff staff education
- Day to day
- Environment of care rounds and follow-up environment of care rounds and follow up
- Day to day
- Construction risk assessments and rounds construction risk assessments and rounds
- Day to day
- Limited hospital-acquired infection surveillance limited hospital acquired infection surveillance
- Day to day
- Facilitating educational sessions for varied audiences
- Hours stated
- 8:00am-4:30pm
- Weekends
- Weekends as needed
- On call
- On call evenings, nights, weekends and holidays as needed assume on‐call responsibilities (which includes evenings, nights, weekends and holidays as needed and within the expected response time)
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Original listing
Posted on Parkview Health’s careers page.
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The Infection Preventionist (IP) collaborates with teams and individuals to create process improvement initiatives, provide feedback, and sustain infection prevention strategies. Serves as the liaison between Parkview co workers and the Infection Prevention department to facilitate effective relationships and clear understanding of hospital associated infection data and analytics. Specific duties include hospital acquired infection review and follow up, management of transmission based precautions, staff education, environment of care rounds and follow up, construction risk assessments and rounds, policy review and revision as assigned, and limited hospital acquired infection surveillance.
Education
Must be a graduate of an accredited ASN or BSN program; or have a Bachelor’s degree in laboratory science; or have a Master’s Degree in Public Health. Nurses with ASN, must obtain BSN from an accredited program within five years of employment or will not be eligible to continue nursing employment with Parkview. Acceptable accrediting agencies are Commission on Collegiate Education in Nursing (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (CNEA).
License & Cert
Nursing Degree candidates must have current Indiana RN license. Laboratory Degree candidates must have current ASCP certification. All candidates, CIC preferred upon hire or must be obtained within 3 years of hire into position. Addendums are required for 0153 Nurse Leader, 0249 Registry RN, 0252 Registered Nurse, 0235 Advanced Registered Nurse, and 0236 Expert Registered Nurse. To view addendums, go to the job description page on Parkview’s intranet.
Experience
Relevant experience in infection prevention, nursing, laboratory science, or public health required. Other
Qualifications
Must have good verbal and written communication skills. Ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills, and will be an efficient and effective problem solver. Must be ale to work flexible hours, assume on call responsibilities (which includes evenings, nights, weekends and holidays as needed and within the expected response time). Ability to effectively facilitate educational sessions to various audiences. Must be able to educate others using various methods such as classroom, web based, paper, etc.).
What's around it?
Fort Wayne, INFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 7% below the US average
- Median rent
- $999/mo
- Household income
- $61,422/yr, all local households, not nurse pay