Infection Control, Registered Nurse - Oak Knoll Healthcare Center
Full-Time, 40 hours/week - all shifts
Base Pay: $42.39 - $47.39
Differentials offered for evening, night and weekend shifts
Primary Responsibilities:
- Will direct and coordinate the infection control program for employees and residents, including monitoring and surveillance activities
- Will provide education to all staff
- Will chair the Infection Control Committee and maintain compliance with CDC, DPH, JCAHO and Local Board of Health standards
- Conducts resident rounds, reporting problems to nursing supervisor and initiating corrective action
- Performs comprehensive assessments of each resident on unit
- Reviews and approves admission and re-admission nursing assessments completed by an LPN
- Develops care plan based on each resident's assessment
- Renders immediate assistance to any resident in need
- Supervise and evaluate all direct resident care and initiates corrective action as necessary
- Provides clinical supervision of nursing assistants providing direct patient care
- Assumes responsibility for compliance with federal, state and local regulations within the assigned unit
- Counsels nursing assistants and communicates clearly with Clinical Nurse Managers and/or Director of Nursing if issues arise
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to assure that high quality resident care is maintained
- Prepares nurse assistant assignments and explains all pertinent resident care
Prerequisites:
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse school of nursing
- Current and active RN license in the state of Massachusetts
- Current certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support in accordance with AHS or ARC standards
- Knowledge of Geriatric Nursing required
- Must have or will need to complete upon hire, the CDC Infection Preventionist Certification program
- Must be a strong communicator
Benefits available:
- 401k
- Paid Sick
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holiday
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Hospital and Accident policy
- Critical Illness
- Christmas Club
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account
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