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Infection Prevention and Control Professional (IPCP) Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 14 days ago
About the Role
The Infection Prevention and Control Professional (IPCP) RN is responsible for implementing the Infection Control Program (ICP) and MDRO program, ensuring high-quality practices to prevent and control the transmission of infection across all sites and services, outlined in VHA directive 1131. The ICP is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, system-wide program designed to monitor, prevent, and control infections and their adverse effects on patients, employees, trainees, volunteers, and visitors.
What You'll Do
- →Applies epidemiologic principles and statistical methods, including risk stratification, to identify target populations, analyze trends and risk factors, and design, implement, and evaluate effective infection prevention and control strategies.
- →Uses a systematic, evidence-based approach to surveillance to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of infection prevention and control strategies, ensuring alignment with the organization's goals and objectives.
- →Performs medical record reviews, data abstraction, and data collection to accurately identify hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and assess adherence to established HAI prevention measures.
- →Performs routine audits of professional practices to assess compliance with established infection prevention and control standards and identify opportunities for improvement.
- →Uses appropriate statistical techniques to describe data, calculate rates, and critically evaluate the significance of findings against internal and external benchmarks.
- →Applies these insights to develop, implement, and evaluate targeted infection prevention strategies.
- →Reviews and analyzes current scientific literature and publications, recommending new or updated practices and procedures based on the most current, evidence-based infection prevention and control strategies.
- →Uses surveillance data to identify the need for practice changes and to propose targeted intervention or performance-improvement projects that enhance infection prevention and control outcomes.
- →Provides expert consultation to administration, committees, managers, and staff on matters related to infection prevention and control, offering guidance on best practices, regulatory requirements, and evidence-based strategies.
- →Understands adult learning principles, designs effective educational programs, and demonstrates strong presentation skills.
- →Provides orientation to new employees, medical students, and residents.
- →Monitors laboratory reports to identify patients with positive multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) for immediate review and investigation, initiates appropriate isolation precautions as needed, and conducts surveillance and investigations using epidemiological principles to prevent and control transmission risks.
- →Collaborates with local and state health departments.
- →Review and update policies and procedures.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 88a81064-337b-42a9-b145-239da5b977fa
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