Infection Prevention and Wound Nurse

Presidential Oaks • Full-time • Concord, NH, US • $40 / hour • 1d ago

Job Title:

Infection Preventionist & Wound Care Nurse- Dual Role

Reports to: Director of Nursing

Overview:

At Presidential Oaks, we are committed to creating a workplace where every individual’s skills and potential are valued. Rooted in an environment that provides compassion and honors dignity and respect; we strive to ensure access to opportunities for everyone. This role embodies these ideals, offering a chance to grow, lead, and make an impact through your unique expertise and abilities.

Join us and be part of a mission-driven team that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and continuous development.

Key Responsibilities of the Infection Preventionist:

· Develops, implements, and maintains the facility’s infection prevention and control program.

· Ensures compliance with CDC, OSHA, CMS, and state regulations.

· Conducts regular infection control surveillance, audits, and risk assessments

· Monitors infection rates, investigates outbreaks, and recommends corrective actions

· Monitors and keeps antibiotic line listing up to date for every resident

· Monitors and ensures PCC tracking is up to date for the infection control tab

· Monitors and ensures PCC antibiotic time outs are in place and timely

· Provides infection prevention training to staff, residents, and visitors

· Ensures staff understand proper infection control practices including hand hygiene, PPE use and isolation procedures through daily interactions as well as competencies

· Develops, updates, and enforces infection prevention policies and procedures

· Assists and participates in activities related to facility inspections or investigations by regulatory accrediting agencies

· Collaborates with healthcare providers and leadership to ensure best practices in infection prevention are followed

· Monitors new admissions and alerts staff to any infection precautions

· Serves as a resource and mentor for staff, promoting continuous learning and improvement

· Updates patient care plans if necessary in relation to infection prevention

· Ensures PPE and precaution carts are readily stocked and available along with performing weekly rounds to ensure the proper precaution carts are where they belong

· Participates in on call rotation

· All other duties as fit, including filling in for staff development as needed

Key Responsibilities of the Wound Care Nurse:

· Educates patients, family members, and healthcare staff on the products and interventions required for skin healing and maintenance

· Assesses and evaluates patient wounds to determine the appropriate course of treatment

· Collaborates with multidisciplinary team, including physicians to optimize patient care

· Rounds with outside wound nurse weekly

· Updates facility documentation as wounds change and keeps track of all wounds in facility

· Documents and photographs all wounds in facility and ensures they are uploaded within 24 hours of patient’s arrival to patient’s portal and then weekly as necessary

· Updates patient care plan/treatment plan and orders as needed as related to wounds

· Adheres to all healthcare regulations and safety standards

· Stays updated with the latest wound care research, techniques and products

· Cleans and dresses wounds, ensuring sterile technique is followed as necessary and educates staff on new dressing orders as they arise

Required Key Skills and Qualifications:

· Consistently demonstrates dependability, responsibility and sets a positive example for other staff

· Passionate about excellent resident care, compliance processes, methodologies and has a willingness to continually learn

· Excellent decision-making skills

· The ability to work independently and as a team

· A responsible, organized and detail-oriented mindset

· Advanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills

· An individual in this position may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens, inside and outside environmental conditions, physical, chemical, or respiratory hazards

· This position requires regular movements such as grasping, kneeling, pulling, pushing, reaching, repetitive movement, standing and stooping and an ability to lift up to 35 lbs

· Prior experience working in wound care and infection control preferred

· Wound nurse certification

· Infection Prevention certification

· BLS Certification

· RN License

Equal Opportunity Employer:

· At Presidential Oaks, we understand that every employee is unique in his or her own way. We do not discriminate on employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, retaliation, military status or other non-merit factors. This facility is a proud Equal Opportunity Workplace.

Pay: From $40.00 per hour

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