Infection Control Nurse at Reddington Hospital

The Reddington Multi-specialist Hospital built on nine floors provides fully comprehensive tertiary hospital solutions in most medical areas. Our journey as a healthcare provider began in March 2006 with the establishment of the Cardiac Centre, in Victoria Island, in association with the renowned Cromwell Hospital in London.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Infection Control Nurse

Location:  Lagos

Job Description

• An Infection Control Nurse is a nursing professional who focuses on evaluating and improving the quality of patient care in a healthcare setting.

Education and Research:

• Serves as an educator and educational resource for HCW, ancillary staff, physicians, patients, families, and the general public.
• Assess needs, develop goals and measurable objectives and prepare plans for educational offerings.
• Apply principles of adult learning to educational strategies and delivery of educational sessions.
• Prepare, present, or coordinate educational workshops. Lectures, discussion or one-on-one instruction on a variety of infection prevention and control topics.
• Apply critical reading skills to evaluate research findings.
• Utilizes appropriate information technology in educational design and delivery.

Duties include
Conducts technical Identification of infectious disease processes:

• Differentiate colonization, infection and contamination.
• Interpret results of diagnostic/lab reports.
• Recognize epidemiologically significant organisms for immediate review and investigation.
• Differentiate among prophylactic, empiric, and therapeutic uses of antimicrobials.
• Identify indications for microbiologic monitoring.

Surveillance and epidemiologic investigations:

• Collection and compilation of surveillance data.
• Ability to identify and implement an Outbreak investigation.

Preventing / controlling the transmission of infectious agents:

• Develop and review infection prevention and control policies and procedures
• Identify and implement infection prevention and control strategies to prevent the transmission of infectious agents.
• Performs patient rounding on all patients with new diagnosis of multidrug resistant organism.
• Assess compliance with healthcare acquired infection prevention bundles with direct patient contact and evaluation of process measures.

Collaboration with Employee / occupational health:

• Collaborates with EH in the development of strategies that address the risk of disease transmission to HCW and ancillary staff.
• Provide counseling, follow-up, work restriction recommendations related to communicable diseases or following exposures in collaboration with Employee Wellness nurse.
• Participates in development and review of EH policies and procedures related to infection prevention and control.
• Assists in the Hepatitis B Vaccination campaign.
• Consults on post-exposure protocols and activities related to communicable diseases.

Leadership: 

• Serves as a leader, mentor, and role model.
• Provides direction and works collaboratively with others.
• Shares knowledge and expertise.
• Mentors less experienced health care providers and ancillary personnel.
• Recommends specific equipment, personnel, and resources for the infection prevention and control program.
• Assists with evaluation of accreditation/regulatory compliance issue and facilitates compliance.

Consultation: 

• Provides knowledge and guidance in infection prevention, control, and epidemiology.
• Stays current with developments in infection prevention and control.
• Integrates into practice, policies, and procedures: pertinent regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and guidelines.
• Supports patient/families, administration, committees, HCW, and ancillary staff in infection prevention, control and epidemiology issues.
• Provides input into patient safety and health care quality initiatives.

Performance improvement:

• Functions as a part of performance improvement initiatives to promote positive patient and employee outcomes.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement based on observations, process and outcome indicators, and other findings.
• Acts as an agent of change and participates in the change process.
• Directs the organization’s infection prevention and control improvement activities.
• Participates in the organization’s multidisciplinary improvement strategies.
• Utilizes established measurement tools and techniques, e.g., outbreak investigation, root cause analysis, etc.
• Integrates surveillance findings into formal plans for improvement of practice and patient outcomes
• Collaborates with risk management/quality management in the identification and review of adverse and sentinel events.

Knowledge

• Candidates should possess a B.Sc Nursing / B.Sc Public Health, added advantage Masters Health related field.
• Certification in Infection Control/ Management of HAI surveillance systems
• Knowledge of the Hospital Acquired Infections and Monitoring protocols
• Knowledge of the required Infection Control related Data to collect and analyse and report.
• Knowledge of non- clinical policies relating to the delivery of Health care services.

Salary
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Application Closing Date
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How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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