Infection Control Nurse

Role & responsibilities

• To conduct Infection control rounds daily and maintains the registers.
• To be involved in education of HCWs
• To maintain registers and data of Sharps/Needle stick injuries and Post exposure prophylaxis
• To initiate and ensure proper immunization for all staffs as per the risk stratification of their working environment.
• To initiate and ensure proper immunization for Hepatitis B Virus imunoglobulin and HBsAg vaccine, in consultation with microbiologist (Member HICC) in case of suspected exposure to any hospital worker
• To ensure that all positive culture cases are been tracked and for each positive culture from inpatient unit a hospital infection information sheet or surgical site infection Sheet is filled and to keep a record for each positive culture case. All probable cases of HAIs and anomalous/irrational use of antibiotics must be discussed in HICC meetings.
• To track the indicators of infection control and present the data to the HICC meetings on regular basis.
• To conduct special tasks given to him/her regarding hospital infection control.
• To ensure adherence to and implementation of infection control protocol for the hospital.
• To supervise, educate and ensure disposal of bio-medical waste by doctors, nurses and paramedical staff for proper disposal at source and to the housekeeping staff for collection and transportation as per the hospital policy.
• To supervise, educate and ensure disposal, storage and transport of bio-medical waste inside and out side hospital.
• Periodic visit with HICC members to out source biomedical waste management vendors location and the record of the visits to be stored.
• Periodic visit with HICC members to OT, CSSD,Endoscopy, Cath-Lab,Dialysis,ER,Laundry and Critical Care Areas to understand the cleaning and disinfection process.
• To supervise, educate and ensure the cleaning of biomedical Equipments, surface clean, procurement, preparation, transportation, storage all over the hospital with the help of respective area supervisors
• To do a survey and track Hospital acquired infection (hospital acquired, hospital associated and healthcare related)
• To collect data pertaining to urinary tract infection, ventilator associated pneumonia, Catheter related blood stream infection, Surgical site infection
• To monitor Environmental Sterility within the hospital, during various projects/renovation/maintenance work in wards, OT etc. Inspecting all areas for infection control
• To monitor the isolation precautions as to who requires and revisit the patients (EG: TB patients) to ensure isolation process is followed
• To follow up health care workers for accidental blood & body fluid exposure and check their health status according to the policy
• To provide pre and post-exposure prophylaxis and maintain the records.
• To monitor the water quality across the hospital - drinking as well as water in the facility (washrooms, OT, wards) at source
• To monitor the RO water quality across the hospital
• In case of an outbreak of a hospital acquired infection, to co-ordinates the investigation of outbreaks of infection
• To possess the ability to risk manage infection control issues during outbreaks, sterilisation failures, damages to infrastructure or exposure to infectious diseases
• To extend support in setting infection control processes & procedures at new projects
• To promote evidenced based Infection Control practices to health care workers, patients and their families.
• To provide education to departments or individuals on infection control practices.
• To create and maintain links with all departments to facilitate effective and safe infection control practices.
• To ensure maintenance of skills base and professional practice by attending relevant lectures, conferences and workshops and by regularly reviewing infection control and related published research.
• To ensure infection control standards meet professional, organisational, legal and ethical requirements.
• To participate in surveillance activities and hand hygiene audits to ensure data is submitted within required time frames.
• To provide feedback data to key stakeholders to demonstrate infection control program successes or improvement opportunities.
• To promote and maintain records of staff immunisation against vaccine preventable diseases.
• To actively participate in the organisation’s multidisciplinary and nursing committees to promote Infection Control best practice and to share information.
• To review infection control guidelines and policies as required and communicate the changes.
• To provide reports to the Infection Control and associated Committees monthly or as required.
• To manage occupational exposure to blood and body fluids and other infectious diseases.
• Conduct Infection control audit and analyse the data for understanding the areas of improvement across the hospital.
• The finding of the audit to be presented in HICC.
• Ensure nursing documents are done properly on regular basis
• To conduct clinical audit regular basis.
• To able to work flex hours based on the situation ,including an occasional evening and weekend.