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The Infection Preventionist oversees the prevention of infection and serves as a consultant, educator, role model, researcher and change agent for infection control and prevention across the organization. Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?:
Here,Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission.
Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children’s badge what they do for a living. They’ll tell you it’s More Than a Job. It’s a calling. It’s a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Place to Be Proud.Responsibilities:
Certifications: Must obtain the Certification in Infection Control (CIC) once all eligibility requirements have been met as stated on the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (CBIC) website. Certification should be attained within three years of joining the department.
Skills: MS Office
Experience: Previous experience in infection control or a pediatric setting, preferred. The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision.
EOE M/F/Disability/Vet
Working Monday-Friday, Dayshift.
- 40 Hours per week available (1.0 FTE).
Benefits eligible.
Pay to commensurate with experience.
The Infection Preventionist oversees the prevention of infection and serves as a consultant, educator, role model, researcher and change agent for infection control and prevention across the organization.
The moment you walk through our doors, you feel it. When you meet our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it. Welcome to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Where Passion Meets Purpose.
Here,Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission.
We’re 14,000 strong. And it takes every one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids around the world we’ll never meet. Kids who live healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere.
Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children’s badge what they do for a living. They’ll tell you it’s More Than a Job. It’s a calling. It’s a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Place to Be Proud.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for a designated area of responsibility for surveillance and epidemiological investigations.
- Applies and expands surveillance principles, uses complex display tools such as control charts.
- Conducts basic cluster and epidemic investigations, interprets results using statistics, rates, and ratios, and knows what benchmarks to use.
- Ensures the Infection Prevention aspects of the Environment of Care are met. Recognizes and monitors elements important for a safe care environment and collaborates on the evaluation and monitoring of environmental cleaning, disinfection, sterilization practices, and technology.
- Assists in the education of new and existing staff, both internal and external to the department.
- Reviews existing policies and strategies, develops new policies and control strategies as needed, for preventing and controlling the transmission of infectious agents.
- Collaborates with Employee Health to evaluate Infection Prevention data and to provide recommendations, including work-restriction, workplace exposures and assessment of risk for occupational exposure to infectious disease.
- Collaborates with Emergency Preparedness to prepare to respond to an influx of potentially infectious patients.
- Collaborates with Public Health as required by the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) and to detect and control new and emerging organisms, agents of bioterrorism, and mass biological events.
Education: BSN, BS in Allied Medical field, Microbiology, Public Health, or related field, required.
Certifications: Must obtain the Certification in Infection Control (CIC) once all eligibility requirements have been met as stated on the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (CBIC) website. Certification should be attained within three years of joining the department.
Skills: MS Office
Experience: Previous experience in infection control or a pediatric setting, preferred. The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision.
EOE M/F/Disability/Vet
