Infection Control Nurse for Long Term Facility

Job Description

Company Description : Lord Chamberlain is a family-owned skilled nursing facility in Stratford, Connecticut with two major units : one with 60 beds, specializing in short-term rehabilitation and a 190-bed unit specializing in long-term care. We are currently hiring a Infection Control Nurse. Come join our team!

Responsibilities :

• Develop and implement a practical system of detecting, evaluating, recording, and reporting infections which originate with facility personnel.
• Assist the personnel director in developing and implementing our employee health services program, to include individual counseling.
• Provide employee counseling as outlined in our infection control and employee health program
• Works in a collaborative effort to evaluate and revise control practices and aseptic technique to ensure continued sanitation practices are maintained throughout the facility.
• Establishes the criteria for classifying all routine and reasonably anticipated job-related tasks to ensure that tasks involving exposure to blood / body fluids are properly identified and recorded.

Benefits : (

On-the-job training in Infection Control available to qualified RNs

Requirements :

RHMLC