Vanessa Alfermann BSN, RN

• Infection Prevention: Responsibilities include collecting, analyzing, and providing infection data and trends to nursing staff and health care practitioners; consulting on infection risk assessment, prevention, and control strategies; providing education and training, and implementing evidence-based infection control practices.
• Hazardous Drug Safety & Health: Guide the management and staff with the appropriate education, training, administration, and cleaning of hazardous drugs.
• Antibiotic Stewardship: Facilitated and guided education and changes to stakeholders.
• Environmental Health & Safety: Facilitated guidance with tasks including PI reports, environmental tours, survey readiness, and life safety measures.
• Workplace Violence: Facilitated, educated, and trained managers and employees with all areas pertaining to workplace violence and its practices. Led new expectations and changes with standardized reporting and flagging patients for communication for future occurrences with patients with encounters of violence.
• MSDS: Supervised, examined, and maintained records of all hazardous chemicals across the facility.
• Policy Tech: Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to oversee, assess, and provide evidence based best practice solutions to policies throughout all departments facility.
• Occupation Health: Ensuring a safe environment for patients and employees by providing expertise on new hire appointments, vaccines, fit testing, safe patient handling, injuries, and exposures.
• Clinical Excellence: Present data pertaining to safety healthcare acquired infections with open discussion with stakeholders monthly.
• Emergency Preparedness and Disaster: Responsibilities included monthly Disaster meeting, quarterly drills, and Ebola preparedness.

• Collaborated with Physicians to provide safe, excellent, evidence-based care to optimize patient outcomes during both preoperative and postoperative stages in surgery.

• Professional nurse dedicated to expanding knowledge base, while providing excellent care by assisting physicians in providing treatment to patients suffering from various medical conditions.
• Charge Nurse-Led a team of registered nurses and patient care techs while attending to all areas of care on a medi surge floor.

With supervision of a preceptor registered nurse, provided and coordinated care with patients.

• Collaborated with physicians and staff to optimize excellent care for patients on 5th, 6th, 7th floor and ED. Extended learning capability by advancing on skill and technique for best practice approach to patient care.