INFECTION CONTROL DEPARTMENT
I. General introduction
The Infection Control Department of Yen Binh Thai Nguyen General Hospital is located on the first floor of a 4-storey building (building B).
Established in January 2020
II. Organizational structure
Deputy Head of Department: Midwife Nguyen Thi Hien
The department consists of 7 employees
III. Functions and duties of the department
- Functions
The IC Department is a specialized department under the direct leadership of the hospital director. The department has the function of managing and advising the hospital director on all ICD work in the hospital to ensure safe sterilization in the field of infection control throughout the hospital, performing well the role and function of infection control.
2. Duties
Planning works and assign works for each department.
The laundry department must separate clean linen and dirty linen with blood and contaminated linen that need to be handled so that they are clean and safe and do not cause cross-infection.
The steaming and drying department must steam to ensure proper sterilization of surgical instruments to ensure surgery.
+ Directly monitor and manage linen to meet the needs of the department.
+ Manage the quantity of laundry, steaming and drying, the quantity of chemical soaps to be appropriate and reasonable, and not wasteful.
+ Check the work of KSNK in the entire department in the hospital
+ Spray disinfectants and sterilize departments periodically or when necessary.
+ Promote hand hygiene for all staff in the entire department
+ Be the focal unit to implement and advise the Director and the Infection Control Council on infection control work.
+ Develop plans, strategies and content of infection control activities
including budgets for approval by the Hospital Director.
+ Develop job positions and job descriptions for infection control department staff.
+ Develop, update and organize the implementation of legal documents, policies, guidelines, regulations, and infection control procedures, including regulations on quality control and submit them to the Infection Control Council for review before the Director approves and organizes implementation.
+ Collect, synthesize, analyze data, and manage data on monitoring activities, including:
– Monitoring hospital infections;
– Monitoring outbreaks in medical examination and treatment facilities.
– Monitoring compliance with technical procedures related to infection control.
– Monitoring the environment in medical examination and treatment facilities.
– Coordinating the monitoring of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
– Coordinating the monitoring and consulting on the appropriate use of antibiotics.
– Organize, monitor, supervise, evaluate, report, and coordinate the implementation of infection control activities and projects to improve the quality of infection control.
– Manage and organize the implementation of disinfection, sterilization, laundry, environmental sanitation, or supervise these activities if the medical examination and treatment facility uses services provided by external units.
– Propose, purchase, set standards, technical standards, and manage equipment, consumables, and chemicals related to infection control activities according to regulations.
– Monitor, evaluate, and report on the effectiveness of prevention, exposure, risks, and occupational accidents related to microorganisms of medical staff and other subjects in the medical examination and treatment facility.
– Guide and direct members of the infection control network to detect and resolve issues related to infection control in departments and rooms.
