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Posted: 29-Jan-25
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 905831
Position Summary
A Senior Infection Preventionist at Phoenix Children’s collaborates with the leadership team, quality, medical and nursing staff to develop strategies to reduce the risk of infections and achieve top decile performance for key infection prevention measures. Initiates and leads teams to address improvement efforts across the organization. Demonstrates expertise in infection prevention core competencies--prevention, surveillance, and control. Performs surveillance by utilizing available electronic tools to collect data, applying critical thinking to interpret the data, and submitting reliable data to the National Healthcare Surveillance Network (NHSN). Able to apply adult learning principles to educational strategies, materials, and presentations. The Senior Infection Preventionist must be self-directed and self-motivating, plans and conducts work with minimal direction. This role also serves as a mentor to the team and provides feedback and guidance for professional development.
Education
- Bachelor?s in nursing with five years nursing experience or bachelor?s in microbiology, Public Health Epidemiology, Biology, or related field with three years? experience in infection prevention and control or epidemiology or MT (ASCP) certification as a Medical Technologist with five years? experience in microbiology. (Required)
- Master?s degree in nursing or other Healthcare field. (Preferred)
Experience
- Three years? experience in an acute care setting or health related field, such as direct patient care, clinical or laboratory research, epidemiology or infectious disease.
(Required) - Experience and/or responsibility for Infection Prevention and Control in previous work environments. (Preferred)
- Previous experience coordinating programs or supervising staff. (Preferred)
Certifications
- Certification in Infection Control (CIC). (Required)
