Staff Nurse - RN - Infection Control jobs in Connecticut

$10,000 SIGN ON BONUS!! *Paid out quarterly in increments of $2500 over the first year

Company Description: Greentree Manor is a 90-bed, family-owned skilled nursing facility in Waterford, Connecticut. We are currently hiring a Infection Control/Staff Development 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 infection 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.
• Plan, develop, direct, evaluate, and coordinate educational and on-the-job training programs.
• Secure, develop, and maintain records, reports, instructional manuals, reference materials, etc., pertinent to in-service educational programs.
• Develop and participate in the planning, conduction, and scheduling of oreintation programs for newly hired personnel.

Pay Rate:

Benefits: (*applies to 24 hours or more,**Full-Time only)

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

Requirements:

• Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university and be a graduate of a Connecticut approved RN program.
• Be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of 40 pounds to a minimum height of 3 feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 4 feet.

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