The HIC Nurse is responsible for implementing, monitoring, and strengthening the hospital's Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programme, with the objective of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), ensuring patient and employee safety, promoting evidence-based infection-control practices, and supporting compliance with NABH and hospital policies.

The role requires close coordination with Nursing, Microbiology, Quality, Medical, OT, ICU, CSSD, Housekeeping and other clinical/support departments. Infection-control nurses commonly coordinate surveillance, audits, isolation precautions, sterilization/disinfection practices, microbiology trends and infection-control documentation.

Key Responsibilities

1. Infection Surveillance

- Conduct continuous surveillance of healthcare-associated infections across the hospital.
- Monitor infection trends in ICUs, wards, Operation Theatres and other high-risk areas.
- Support surveillance of device-associated infections such as CLABSI, CAUTI and VAP, as applicable.
- Maintain infection-control surveillance records, registers and reports.
- Coordinate with the Microbiology team to review culture results and identify possible infection clusters.
- Assist in identifying, investigating and controlling suspected outbreaks. [zeniahr.com], [nabh.co]

2. Infection Prevention Practices

- Monitor adherence to standard and transmission-based precautions.
- Conduct regular hand-hygiene compliance audits and provide feedback to departments.
- Monitor appropriate use of PPE and isolation precautions.
- Monitor aseptic practices and infection-control procedures in patient-care areas.
- Ensure appropriate infection-control practices for infectious/isolated patients.




- Monitor compliance with biomedical waste segregation and secure disposal practices. [swaasa.com], [zeniahr.com]

3. Audits and Compliance

- Conduct scheduled and surprise infection-control rounds.
- Perform infection-control audits in ICU, OT, wards, emergency, dialysis, CSSD and other clinical areas, as applicable.
- Identify non-compliances and initiate/carry forward corrective and preventive actions.
- Track closure of audit observations in coordination with respective department heads.
- Maintain appropriate evidence and documentation for internal and external audits.

NABH's published infection-prevention case study specifically highlights standardized IPC audits covering hand hygiene, PPE, biomedical-waste segregation and device-care bundles. [nabh.co] 4. Sterilization, Disinfection and Environmental Monitoring

- Monitor compliance with cleaning, disinfection and sterilization protocols.
- Periodically monitor usage, dilution and handling of disinfectants.
- Coordinate with CSSD, OT, Nursing, Housekeeping and other departments regarding infection-prevention requirements.
- Participate in environmental surveillance of critical areas as per hospital policy.
- Escalate deviations and infection risks immediately. Similar hospital ICN roles specifically include monitoring environmental conditions in OTs and ICUs and disinfectant-use practices.



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5. Training and Staff Awareness

- Conduct induction and periodic IPC training for nurses and other healthcare workers.
- Provide training on:
- Hand hygiene
- Standard precautions
- PPE
- Needle-stick/sharps safety
- Biomedical waste management
- Isolation precautions
- Device-associated infection prevention bundles
- Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
- Reinforce infection-control practices through bedside/department-level education and feedback.

6. Hospital Infection Control Programme

- Support the Infection Control Officer and Hospital Infection Control Committee.
- Prepare infection-control statistics, audit findings and trend reports for review.
- Participate in HICC meetings and implementation of identified actions.
- Assist in reviewing and updating IPC policies, SOPs, checklists and audit tools.
- Support initiatives aimed at reducing HAIs and improving patient-safety indicators.
- Maintain documentation required for NABH accreditation and surveillance audits.

Qualification

Essential:

- B.Sc. Nursing / Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing.
- Valid Nursing Council registration.

Preferred:

- Certification/training in Infection Prevention & Control.
- Training/exposure to NABH standards and hospital infection-control systems.

Experience

- Preferably 5+ years of clinical nursing experience, with exposure to Infection Control, ICU, OT, Critical Care or Quality.
- Prior experience as an Infection Control Nurse/HIC Nurse in a multi-specialty hospital would be preferred.

Pay: ₹350,000.00 - ₹500,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

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