CANDIDATE: Infection Prevention Leader

Seeking: Interim Consulting Assignment

Specialty: Infection Prevention and Control, Leadership

Credentials: BSN, MSN, RN, CIC 

Years: 20+

SUMMARY

We’re excited to introduce you to a talented Infection Preventionist who is looking for her next Interim Consulting Assignment.

A "hit the ground running, hands-on leader." She has over 20 years of infection prevention and employee health experience in acute, ambulatory, and long-term care settings. She has participated in several Joint Commission and CMS surveys and assisted in coordinating house-wide mock surveys. She has experience and participated in several improvement projects, supervising infection prevention programs for multiple sites and overseeing employee health services. She has extensive experience with NHSN reporting, sterile re-processing, surveillance, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting HAIs, and environment of care rounds. She has provided infection prevention orientation and education to all levels of healthcare personnel and has served as a resource for internal and external partners. She is a proven leader with excellent communication and organizational skills.

Contact us today to schedule an interview and see the difference she can make for your facility.

EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

Infection Prevention Consultant

492 Bed Acute Care, Level II Trauma Center, Teaching Hospital

• Manage infection control program
• Support and provide leadership to a team of 5 IPs
• Mentor and train new IP staff
• Led infection prevention project teams, including CAUTI, CLABSI, VAP and SSI reduction teams (reduced CLABSI and CAUTI by 20%)
• Participated in successful TJC and OSHA surveys

Infection Prevention Consultant

760 total Beds 2 Acute Care Hospitals, Level I Trauma Center 

• Participated in survey readiness identifying and assisting in the resolution of challenges (participated in successful TJC survey Sept.)
• Restructured day-to-day IP operations
• Mentored new staff

REFERENCE EXCERPTS

From Supervisor:

"…any organization who brings on this individual is getting a tremendous asset. She has completely redesigned our foundational and fundamental IC program. She is extremely knowledgeable to all areas of IC and has assisted with HLD, Bone Marrow, Cancer infusion, outpatient centers, CSR, OR, ICRA, Line reduction, etc. She is approachable and friendly and speaks to others like she would want to be spoken with, encouraging positivity and patient safety. It would be a huge loss for an organization not to bring her on!"