Infection Control Nurse

Role & responsibilities

• Interacts with physicians, nurses, department managers, supervisors, and occupational health and other professional/non-professional staff members to provide resource information, resolve infection control problems, and identify new opportunities to improve service and reduce costs.

• Directs and assists in preparing reports and statistical data for the infection control committee, medical staff committees, medical executive committee and the facility's administration and other committees as needed.
• Conducts rounds, discussing and monitoring infection control practices with staff;
• Collects infection data from departments, maintaining records for each case.
• Train staff on implementation of infection control practices.
• Investigates incidents of infection and reports such incidents to the nursing superintendent.
• Ensures availability of supplies required for infection control.
• Daily rounds to all departments.
• Post operative patients counselling.
• Conducting infection control committee meeting and Formulating agenda and minutes of meeting.
• Induction programme for all new joinee.
• Initiate in cleaning and fumigation process within department and collection of swabs and send to microbiology department with approval of medical director.
• Collecting data on infection rates related to VAP,CAUTI,CLASBI,SSI,VIE.
• Monitoring of general cleanliness,bedside cleanliness,biomedical waste mangemnt in wards and ICCUs,equipment and instrument cleanliness
• Participate in infection prevention/control and hygiene audits.
• Managing and monitoring of housekeeping activities.
• Maintaining of sterility of ETO and steam sterilised items.
• Monitoring of nursing measures related to isolaton/ barrier precautions.
• Infection control bundle maintenance.
• Infection control measures at bedside
• Assessing for any phlebitis,central line days,ventilator days,foleys catheter days, ryles tube days, IV cannula days.
• Checking of personal hygiene and deworming  of F& B staff.