About Us

The NC Department of Adult Correction is one of the largest state agencies with more than 14,000 employees. It is responsible for safeguarding and preserving lives and property through prevention, protection, and preparation as well as the care, custody, and supervision of all adults sentenced for violating North Carolina laws. This department includes state prisons with custody, healthcare, and facility operations staff as well as probation/parole officers who supervised sentenced people in the community. Other divisions include Administration, Health Services, Rehabilitation & Reentry, Special Operations and the Post-Release Supervision & Parole Commission. We have a mission that matters!

Description of Work

This position serves as the primary clinical resource for infection prevention practices and provides consultation to nursing, medical, environmental services, custody, and administrative leadership regarding communicable disease prevention, surveillance, isolation precautions, outbreak response, and infection-control practices. The position is located at Central Prison Healthcare Complex in Raleigh, which houses approximately 970 close-custody male offenders.

The Infection Control Nurse Consultant I is responsible for coordinating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the facility’s Infection Prevention and Control Program within a correctional hospital environment.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities/Management Preferences

Primary Responsibilities:

• Infection Prevention Program Oversight
  • Coordinate and maintain the facility's Infection Prevention and Control Program.
  • Monitor compliance with established infection prevention policies, procedures, clinical standards, and regulatory requirements.
  • Conduct routine infection-control rounds and identify opportunities for corrective action and process improvement.
  • Assist with development, implementation, and review of infection-control policies, procedures, protocols, and educational materials.
• Surveillance and Disease Monitoring
  • Conduct surveillance of healthcare-associated infections, communicable diseases, multidrug-resistant organisms, and other identified infection risks.
  • Review laboratory results, clinical information, and infection-control data to identify trends, clusters, or potential outbreaks.
  • Maintain required infection-control logs, surveillance records, statistical reports, and trending data.
  • Communicate significant findings and recommendations to healthcare leadership.
• Isolation, Exposure, and Outbreak Management
  • Provide consultation regarding standard and transmission-based precautions, patient placement, isolation, movement, and infection-control needs.
  • Assist with investigation and management of communicable disease exposures and suspected outbreaks.
  • Coordinate appropriate follow-up and infection-control interventions following employee or patient exposures.
  • Collaborate with healthcare, infection control and custody leadership to implement infection-control measures while maintaining facility safety and security.
• Education and Clinical Consultation
  • Provide infection prevention education to healthcare staff regarding hand hygiene, PPE, bloodborne pathogens, isolation precautions, communicable diseases, cleaning and disinfection, and emerging infection concerns.
  • Serve as a clinical resource to nursing staff, providers, supervisors, and facility leadership.
  • Participate in Infection Control, Quality Improvement, Safety, and other multidisciplinary committees as assigned.

Salary Range

$62,044.00 - $102,371.00

Minimum Education and Experience

Graduation from an accredited school of professional nursing and current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina and two years of professional nursing experience demonstrating knowledge of infection prevention, communicable disease management, epidemiology, quality improvement, or related clinical practice.

Recruiter

Monique Williams Cowan

Email

DACWorkday@dac.nc.gov