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Infection Preventionist

Community Health System

Fresno, CA
21 days ago

Job Description

Join Community Health System as an Infection Preventionist in Fresno/Clovis, CA. Focused on disease prevention and monitoring, you'll work closely with the Infection Prevention team to implement critical policies and provide education, ensuring a safe environment for patients and staff.

Key Responsibilities

  • Prevent, investigate, monitor and report the spread of diseases in hospitals
  • Conduct and evaluate Infection Prevention surveillance program
  • Implement Infection Prevention policies, procedures and programs
  • Provide Infection Prevention education and conduct epidemiological investigations
  • Serve as an Infection Prevention consultant to the CMC community
  • Institute control measures or isolation procedures when there is an infection risk

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
  • Completion of basic course in Infection Control recognized by APIC
  • 3 years in related experience
  • Current State of California Registered Nurse license or CBIC-CIC certification within 3 years of hire

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Nursing, Pharmacy or field of specialty
  • Experience in Infection Prevention, Healthcare Education, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Employee Health or Public Health