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Job Summary
- The Director InfectionPrevention is accountable for the development, implementation and evaluation of the Infection Control program for the MedStar National Rehabilitation Network (MNRN). The incumbent for this role should be a self-starter that brings together various clinical and non-clinical team members to ensure compliance with infection control standards for various regulatory agencies.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education/Training
  - Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required, masters degree in health administration, nursing, or allied health preferred.
- Experience
  - At least seven-to-ten years experience in an acute inpatient rehabilitation care setting in case management and/or patient evaluations roles or in insurer organizations responsible for rehabilitation case management.
- License/Certification/Registration
  - CPR certification required; DC Registered Nurse license required; Infection Control certification preferred
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  - Must be able to manage projects related to infection control standards; interact with patients, family members, and team members positively; interpret policy and regulations and turn them into standards to ensure a safe environment; Ability to use Microsoft Office Suite products (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.). Organized; decisive; willing to continually learn and improve; flexible; pragmatic; perceptive; tactful; caring; courteous; friendly and customer-service oriented; competitive yet tea-oriented; self-starter; detail and results-oriented; persistent; skilled in verbal and written communications, negotiations, and people management; honest and loyal; self-deprecating sense of humor; ability to facilitate actions; and broad knowledge of health care delivery, financing, payment and outcomes measurement.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Functions as a role model for the practice of infection control and nursing through demonstration of professional conduct and ethical standards practice.
- Develops and implements the infection control (safety) content for orientation of new employees throughout the network.
- Provides yearly updates on Bloodborne pathogens, Tuberculosis, standard precautions and resistant organisms.
- Prepares, reviews, and revises all infection control and sterile processing policies and plans for MNRN.
- Develops goals, objectives, and implementation strategies pertaining to Infection Control, Nursing Services and other service areas of the hospital.
- Develops the Infection Control plan for MNRN in collaboration with the Infection Control Committee.
- Identifies epidemiological significant organisms.
- Ensures appropriate identification of patients with epidemiologically significant organisms.
- Communicates Infection control interventions with the interdisciplinary team.
- Implements infection control practices.
- Monitors and assists in the control of spread of infectious disease according to surveillance protocol established by the Infection Control Committee.
- Monitors patients' laboratory data and notifies appropriate team members of findings.
- Summarizes and evaluates lab data and reports findings to the Infection Control committee.
- Identifies epidemiological significant organisms and takes action to isolate the patient as quickly as possible.
- Implements appropriate isolation techniques.
- Tracks and trends the identification of nosocomial infections.
- Identifies reportable organisms.
- Reports the organism to appropriate public health officials.
- Prepares reports related to nosocomial infection rates to the infection control committee, safety committee, medical staff and the board of directors.
- Provide effective and efficient information to staff, patients and families regarding isolation and patient care activities.
- Provide evaluation services including review of pertinent patient history information, performance of assessment, determination of recommendations and documentation of results.
- Consults with physicians and other team members regarding isolation and specific treatment plan as indicated.
- Act as a liaison with admissions, physicians and the nursing units to facilitate admission of isolation patients.
- Direct and implement service specific policies for team members who perform duties in sterile processing service (SPS) area.
- Supervise and evaluate infection Control Assistant's activities in SPS.
- Monitor team members from nursing, PT, OT and transportation who perform duties in SPS.
- Educate above team members annually and as needed on SPS safety.
- Develops, implements and monitors budget for SPS and infection control.
- Manages budgets within parameters and identifies and responds to budget variances.
- Develops and contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards and safety standards. Ensures compliance with hospital/facility policies and procedures and governmental/accreditation regulations.
- Participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams as appropriate. Participates in meetings, serves on committees and represents the department and hospital/facility in community outreach efforts as appropriate.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

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