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Quality Nurse Consultant I
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | San Jose, California |
About this job
Coordinates quality, accreditation, regulatory and licensing (AR&L), patient safety and risk management activities for the medical center. Provides clinical, educational, consulting, and coordinating support to assigned areas. Uses nurses' licensure as a substantial amount of scientific knowledge or technical skill for indirect patient care services that ensure the safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection of patients; and the performance of disease prevention and restorative measures.
Essential Functions:
* Acts as a consultant for quality, AR&L, risk, patient safety, and infection prevention activities and programs.
* Assists with quality management studies through data collection, data input and report development.
* Analyzes, interprets and provides recommendation based on quality principles.
* Organize and coordinate project planning, group process facilitation, training, and appropriate application of information technology.
* Reports all occurrences which may lead to medical center liability and follows up as necessary.
* Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration for implementation of evidence based guidelines, criteria and other clinical tools to reduce variation in clinical practice and to optimize clinical outcomes.
* Educates physicians and staff regarding regional projects or regulatory reviews, i.e. the interpretation of regulatory requirements and the methods of compliance when preparing for a review or the interpretation of project goals.
* Analyzes risk management/patient safety principles and provides recommendations for the incorporation of risk management principles in each medical center.
* Provides support services to appropriate medical center staff in implementing risk management principles into credentialing processes.
* Participates in special projects as assigned, such as statistical reports for state, federal, and local agencies.
* Applies the appropriate performance improvement methodology to address improvement opportunity (eg. MFI, Lean DMAIC).
* May support infection prevention and control activities.
* Supports maintenance of IC records and policy/procedure manual reviews and revisions.
* Supports the medical center's continuous survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
* Minimum five (5) years of experience in an acute care setting.
Education
* Bachelor's degree in nursing, business administration, economics, health care administration, operation research, public health administration, or other related field.
License, Certification, Registration
* Current RN license in California.
Additional Requirements:
* Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Three (3) years of experience with quality assessment, quality improvement, and quality demonstration.
* Master's degree preferred.
* Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/ Just Culture/Project Management/ Lean/ IP certification preferred.
* CIC certificate required within a year, if primary job focus is Infection Control.
Essential Functions:
* Acts as a consultant for quality, AR&L, risk, patient safety, and infection prevention activities and programs.
* Assists with quality management studies through data collection, data input and report development.
* Analyzes, interprets and provides recommendation based on quality principles.
* Organize and coordinate project planning, group process facilitation, training, and appropriate application of information technology.
* Reports all occurrences which may lead to medical center liability and follows up as necessary.
* Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration for implementation of evidence based guidelines, criteria and other clinical tools to reduce variation in clinical practice and to optimize clinical outcomes.
* Educates physicians and staff regarding regional projects or regulatory reviews, i.e. the interpretation of regulatory requirements and the methods of compliance when preparing for a review or the interpretation of project goals.
* Analyzes risk management/patient safety principles and provides recommendations for the incorporation of risk management principles in each medical center.
* Provides support services to appropriate medical center staff in implementing risk management principles into credentialing processes.
* Participates in special projects as assigned, such as statistical reports for state, federal, and local agencies.
* Applies the appropriate performance improvement methodology to address improvement opportunity (eg. MFI, Lean DMAIC).
* May support infection prevention and control activities.
* Supports maintenance of IC records and policy/procedure manual reviews and revisions.
* Supports the medical center's continuous survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
* Minimum five (5) years of experience in an acute care setting.
Education
* Bachelor's degree in nursing, business administration, economics, health care administration, operation research, public health administration, or other related field.
License, Certification, Registration
* Current RN license in California.
Additional Requirements:
* Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Three (3) years of experience with quality assessment, quality improvement, and quality demonstration.
* Master's degree preferred.
* Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/ Just Culture/Project Management/ Lean/ IP certification preferred.
* CIC certificate required within a year, if primary job focus is Infection Control.
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