Infection Control Nurse

Job Description

• Develop and maintain a learning culture amongst nurses, particularly in the specialist field in which they work.

• Be an expert registered nurses with advanced education, training or certification in their specialized area of practice. Specialty practice may be defined by population, clinical setting a disease/medical subspecialty and type of care or type of problem.

• Be a role model and always seek to improve the safety and quality of care delivered to patients in the specialist field.

• Be a member of the interprofessional team as a subject matter expert in his/ her field of specialization.

• Support and lead audit and data collection in their area of specialisation for KPIs and benchmarking.

• Support the nurse educator with training programs, training needs analysis within the specialised field.

• Support patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.

• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.

• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.

• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.

• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.

• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.

• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.

• Support the process of safe patient`s admission, transfer and discharge.