Nurse Educator and Infection Preventionist
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Job Description
Are you an experienced RN who loves teaching, mentoring, and helping others become exceptional caregivers? Do you have a passion for infection prevention and creating a culture of clinical excellence?
Christ's Home is looking for a Nurse Educator & Infection Preventionist to join our Nursing Administration team. This unique leadership position gives you the opportunity to make an impact across our nursing team through education, professional development, clinical competency, and infection prevention.
What You'll Do
- Develop & Inspire Our Nursing Team
- You'll help our nurses and nursing assistants continue to grow by:
- Creating and coordinating meaningful educational programs
- Leading annual skills education and required training
- Supporting orientation and competency development for newly hired nursing staff
- Identifying learning needs and developing opportunities for professional growth
Coordinating CPR Training
- Providing hands-on education involving IVs, PICC lines, wound vacs, CPAP/BiPAP, new equipment, and clinical procedures
- Supporting PointClickCare training
- Lead Infection Prevention
- You'll play an important role in protecting residents and staff by:
- Leading our Infection Prevention and Control Plan
- Conducting infection surveillance and outbreak investigations
- Supporting antibiotic stewardship
- Coordinating resident and staff vaccination programs
- Monitoring infection-control data and reporting
- Helping develop infection prevention policies and procedures
Providing Infection Prevention Education
Participating in Quality Assurance and coordinating Infection Prevention and Control Committee meetings
Who We're Looking For
Our ideal candidate is someone who is approachable, organized, resourceful, professional, and passionate about developing others. You'll need strong communication, teaching, problem-solving, time-management, and computer skills, along with solid knowledge of professional nursing practice and applicable regulations.
Qualifications
- Current Pennsylvania Registered Nurse license
- BSN required
- 5+ years of professional nursing experience in a hospital or long-term care clinical setting
- Infection prevention and control experience
- Training or facilitation experience is preferred, but not required
- Infection Preventionist must be qualified for the role through education, training, certification, or experience
Why This Role Matters
This isn't simply an education position or an infection-control position. It's an opportunity to shape clinical practice, support the professional growth of nursing staff, strengthen infection prevention, and directly influence the quality of care provided to residents.
If you're an experienced RN who enjoys teaching others and wants a position where your clinical knowledge can make an organization-wide impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
The Nurse Educator and Infection Preventionist will lead educational programs for nursing staff and oversee the facility's infection prevention and control plan. This role involves conducting clinical training, managing surveillance data, and ensuring compliance with quality assurance standards.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Nursing Education — Registered Nurse Career Context
Of the 50 active Registered Nurse listings this role was benchmarked against, 28% are remote, 36% have no call, 78% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Registered Nurse median $92k (middle half $90k–$100k)26 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| Cost of living | Pennsylvania index 97.6 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Registered Nurse listings in Pennsylvania | 210 active | 5,886 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 28% remote · 36% no call · 78% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | Pennsylvania Registered Nurse listings: 12% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 1% offer loan repayment210 active listings, Oct 2026 |
| New Nursing Education listings | 59 in the last 30 days | 35 the 30 days before (+69%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Registered Nurse pay trend | +6.5% vs prior quarter | —through Sep 2026 |
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