Under general supervision with minimal supervision by professional staff provides hospital program of Epidemiology and Quality Assurance Support Service with execution of surveillance and epidemiology evaluation of alterations in patient care which affect Quality Assurance, Risk Management and Epidemiology Programs. Reports problems in specific activities to the Nurse Epidemiologist, Utilization Review Assistant, Assistant Coordinator or Coordinator, Quality Assurance Support Service, Associate Hospital Epidemiologist or Hospital Epidemiologist as the situation warrants. Assists with supervising trainees as they are oriented to surveillance activities. Serves as a standby on an on-call basis.
Epidemiology Apply specific criteria in identifying nosocomial infections.
Detect and evaluate for potential outbreaks of infection and increasing colonization of specific organisms and assist with epidemiological investigations, prepare special reports, graphs, etc. as directed by administrative staff. Assist in planning for the collection of appropriate data for specific epidemiological studies and present data for analysis. Engage in data retrieval, data entry and presentation of aggregate data for analysis. Complete designated forms for State Health Department on communicable diseases. Recognize exposures of health care workers to communicable diseases and organize and report such exposures in a timely manner.