Infection Control/Wound Care Nurse

Description

NEW YEAR, NEW OPPORTUNITIES! After restructuring our Clinical Leadership roles, The Davis Community is excited to offer experienced nurse candidates new opportunities to join our team! 

Description

*$5,000 Sign On Bonus*

INTRODUCTION

The Davis Community is a vibrant senior living neighborhood and has been a proud corporate citizen of Wilmington, NC for over 60 years. Established as a skilled nursing facility in the early 1960s, Davis quickly became the premier healthcare center for senior care, and while they have grown and evolved, adding to services offered, we continue to be highly regarded in the region as a community that emphasizes compassion, care, and show of respect and dignity for residents.

COMMUNITY CULTURE

At The Davis Community, deliberate and diligent efforts are made to emphasize and focus on an underlying culture of respect and service that can be seen and felt by all. Employees, residents, and guests of the community are treated with respect and personalized care to the best of the organization’s ability. The desire to continue to elevate all aspects of services is preeminent so that Davis can provide an empowering and caring retirement atmosphere filled with friends, enjoyment, and a fulfilling sense of community. Our Leading advantages include:

• State-of-the-art Facilities
• On-demand Pay
• Benefits begin after 30 days
• Low-cost lunches
• Free Membership to our gym and indoor pool
• Shift differential
• Work-life Balance
• Growth
• Competitive Wages

We spend about 2,000 hours per year at work. Why not make that time matter? For us, ‘work that matters’ is less about what you do, and more about how you do it.

The Davis Community requires that all current and new employees, including contract staff, receive an annual influenza vaccination and TB skin test unless a reasonable or disability accommodation is granted.

PURPOSE:

Responsible for the facility Infection Prevention Control Program.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

Infection Control

· Collaborate with the facility leadership and the directors to develop, implement, and evaluate the annual infection prevention goals and action plan.

· Partner with leadership, physicians, and local, state and national agencies on activities related to infection prevention.

· Establish a system for the prevention, identification, investigation, and control of infections of residents, staff, and visitors, including surveillance designed to identify possible communicable diseases or infections before they spread.

· Conduct outbreak investigations.

· Maintain a system for reporting possible incidents of communicable diseases to local, state, or national agencies as required, as well as the corrective actions taken.

· Oversee the antibiotic stewardship program and monitor residents’ antibiotic use.

· Assess the need for, develop, and present IPCP in-service education for individual departments, general orientation, and annual review as needed; education includes but not limited to; handy hygiene, cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing, specific direct and indirect care settings, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures and devices, use of isolation/barrier precautions when indicated, resident placement, transfer, and discharge, environmental hazards, use of patient care products and medical equipment, and resident immunization programs.

· Assess the need for develop, and implement written policies and procedures for infection control, including those for standard precautions and for transmission-based precautions, including when these should be used, the duration of use, and the type of precautions needed for a particular infection. 

· Enforce policies prohibiting staff with communicable diseases or infected skin lesions from direct contact with residents and their food and enforce hand hygiene policies consistent with accepted standards of practice.

· Serve as a member of the quality assessment and assurance committee.

· Be accountable for the surveillance of healthcare-acquired and community-acquired infections for residents, staff, volunteers, and visitors.

· Maintain current knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations and ensure that the facility leaders are informed of appropriate issues; understand and comply with infection control, safety, and OSHA procedures and regulations.

Wound Care

· Conduct Weekly wound rounds with provider and post notes in chart to include measurements, appearance, treatment change, etc.

· Prepare a weekly wound report.

· Prepare individual wound care bags for each resident. Ensure they are kept stocked with current treatments and supplies.

· Daily audit of progress notes and body audits from the previous day for any documented skin concerns. Asses and confirm treatments. Update MD and RD and document.

· Assess admissions in person. Document and confirm treatments of identified area including RP and MD notification. 

· Update care plans.

· Spot audit treatments in person to ensure they are completed per order.

· Compile a monthly wound report to include trends and patterns.

· Initiate any education as needed. 

· Audit progress notes and body audits 

· Other duties as assigned by the Director of Nursing.

· Obey all federal, state, and local laws.

Requirements

Education: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing.

Licensure/ Certification:  Current North Carolina licensure as RN or LPN, A.P.I.C. preferred. Wound Care Certification. 

Experience: Two years previous geriatric nursing preferred

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.