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Surveillance, investigation of cases and outbreaks, training of staff members, observe staff members’ practices, participate in patient rounds, attend meetings, and design and lead interventions to improve infection control.and evaluation of the effectiveness of infection prevention efforts.

Responsibilities include coordination of patient care services through case management, working closely with the physician team, order entry into the computer system, providing direct patient care, staging a patient’s wound, detailed documentation of wound, and educating patients on wound care and home wound management

Weekend clinical instructor for Scott Community College responsibilities included providing supervision to nursing students during clinical hours, educating students on direct patient care, providing evaluations on student performance to Scott Community College

Responsibilities include providing education for the doctors on computerized order entry, developing and designing educational material, assessing learner’s needs and abilities, providing educational support to physicians, working with Cerner computer system, monitoring Midas reports, supporting physician during the initiation of order entry, and developing a computer orientation program for new physicians

Responsibilities included relief charge nurse for a 36 bed unit, direct patient care on a medical surgical unit, coordinating patient discharge with disciplinary team members, preceptor for nurses and nursing students, and representation for the medical surgical unit on committees .Responsibilities included evaluating the learning needs of the staff, providing education for nurses on new procedures and equipment, monitoring staff competency, coordinating nursing orientation, monitoring Midas reports, serving on multiple committees, monitoring and providing feedback on performanceCurrently still working on a per diem basis on the medical pulmonary unit.