Public Service Administrator, OPT 8N (Dialysis Nurse)
Illinois Department of Public Health
Application
Details
Posted: 07-Nov-23
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Type: Full Time
Salary: $7,234-$11,031/Month
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Internal Number: 26-24-0075
Position Overview
The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve as Dialysis Nurse to promote infection prevention and control in hemodialysis facilities. Performs infection control assessment response (ICAR) at dialysis facilities/sites. Provides infection prevention and control (IPC) expertise during outbreak investigations in dialysis facilities. Provides IPC training, technical assistance, and consultation to support sites providing dialysis services in meeting IPC regulations, standards, and evidence-based practices. Performs validation of dialysis events reported to National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) and supports facilities with surveillance and reporting. Maintains up-to-date landscape analysis of where outpatient dialysis services are being provided and develops relationships with key stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
Evaluates and promotes evidence-based infection prevention and control (IPC) practices at facilities/sites providing hemodialysis services.
Monitors outbreaks in outpatient hemodialysis facilities and coordinates with internal and external groups to facilitate appropriate response.
Maintains up-to-date landscape analysis of where outpatient dialysis services are being provided and develops relationships with key stakeholders.
Provides technical assistance to healthcare facilities and local health departments related to prevention and control of healthcare associated infections.
Participates in developing grant applications for the healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance (HAI/AR) program.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college in nursing, public health, microbiology or a related field.
Requires three years of progressively responsible professional experience in a healthcare or public health organization related to infection prevention and control or patient safety.
Requires Illinois licensure as a Registered Nurse.
Preferred Qualifications
Two years of experience in dialysis.
Current Certification as a Certified Dialysis Nurse.
One year experience communicating both verbally and in writing.
Extensive knowledge of healthcare quality improvement methods.
Organizational, planning, and time management skills to effectively complete assignments.
Two years of experience planning and/or implementing educational activities targeting healthcare personnel.
Two years’ experience evaluating and promoting evidence-based infection prevention and control (IPC) practices.
In Illinois, if you have eaten at a restaurant ... required hospital or nursing home care ... vacationed at a campground or swam at a public beach or pool ... drank a glass of milk ... got married or divorced ... had a baby, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has touched your life in some important way.
Assuring the quality of our food, setting the standards for hospital and nursing home care, checking the safety of recreation areas, overseeing the inspection of milk producing farms and processing plants, maintaining the state's vital records and screening newborns for genetic diseases are just some of the duties of IDPH.
In fact, IDPH has 200 different programs that benefit each state resident and visitor, although its daily activities of maintaining the public's health are rarely noticed unless a breakdown in the system occurs. With the assistance of local public health agencies, these essential programs and services make up Illinois' public health system, a system that forms a frontline defense against disease through preventive measures and education. Public health has provided the foundation for remarkable gains in saving lives and reducing suffering. Today, lif...e expectancy is 80 years for women and 74 years for men compared with fewer than 50 years at the at the beginning of the 20th century.
In the past, IDPH directed state efforts to control smallpox, cholera and typhoid, virtually eliminated polio, reduced dental decay through fluoridation of community water supplies, and corrected sanitary conditions that threatened water and food supplies.
Today, IDPH has programs to deal with persistent problems that require continued vigilance – infectious diseases, such as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and meningococcal disease; foodborne and communicable diseases, such as E. coli 0157: H7, monkeypox, salmonella and West Nile virus; vaccine preventable diseases; lead poisoning; lack of health care in rural areas; health disparities among racial groups, breast, cervical and prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; and other health threats -- sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco use, violence, and other conditions associated with high-risk behaviors. In addition, IDPH has been charged with handling the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of bioterrorism.
IDPH, which is one of the state's oldest agencies, was first organized in 1877 with a staff of three and a two-year budget of $5,000. IDPH, now has an annual budget of $2.9 billion in state and federal funds, headquarters in Springfield and Chicago, seven regional offices located around the state, three laboratories, and 1,200 employees.
IDPH is organized into 12 offices, each of which addresses a distinct area of public health. Each office operates and supports numerous ongoing programs and is prepared to respond to extraordinary situations as they arise.
