Quality Assessment and Infection Control Nurse
Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge
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- Pay
- $82.9K to $110.9K
- a year
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 9
- 11 days ago
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About the company
Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge
Hospital & health care · 201 to 500 employees
What you'll do
- Participate as a member of the interdisciplinary team in identifying residents at risk for adverse outcomes and identifying measures by which those outcomes might be avoided/improved.
- Track on a weekly basis pertinent quality measures – resident falls, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, and weight loss.
- Receive, analyze, interpret and prepare facility reports and occurrences, including medication error reports, incident reports and unusual occurrence reports.
- Effectively and efficiently utilizes multiple methods of data collection to obtain information on resident care, unit functioning, internal and external customer satisfaction.
- Conduct and document investigations of unanticipated or sentinel events under the Department of Health standards.
- Coordinate and lead monthly Quality Assurance meetings; prepare agenda, receive reports from individual departments and document corrective action plans.
- Update, develop and implement policies and procedures related to quality improvement.
- Conduct on-going surveillance using Center of Disease Control (CDC) infection criteria, documentation, and investigation of nosocomial infections.
What you need
- Experience in computer software such as Word and Excel. Experience with the electronic medical record.
- Prefer at least one year of experience or additional course work or certification in infection control.
- Prefer two to three years of experience with data collection, tabulation, analysis, interpreting and reporting of findings.
- Must communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing.
- Licensed as an RN in the State of Virginia.
- Minimum five years of experience as a Registered Nurse.
- Prefer two to three years of experience working with the elderly.
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In collaboration with the Health Services Administrator and the interdisciplinary team, the Quality Assessment and Infection Control Nurse works as a leader in quality improvement initiatives and Infection Preventionist for the organization. Major responsibilities of the position include quality assessment and assurance, surveillance and infection control, and leading/initiating performance improvement projects within the quality assurance program. Participates in on-call rotation as a nurse leader within the healthcare team.
The starting salary range for this position is $82,918 to $110,903.