Quality Assurance - Licensed Vocational Nurse

POSITION SUMMARY
The Quality Assurance Licensed Vocational Nurse is a professional and responsible for all the
quality activities of the organization. The Quality Assurance Licensed Vocational Nurse has
accountabilities for the monitoring, implementation, and evaluation of processes and programs to
meet regulatory requirements, accreditation, and standards of practice.

THIS IS AN IN OFFICE POSITION

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
In addition to all components of the above position summary the following “Essential Duties and
Responsibilities” are essential to successful performance in this position
• Responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the organization’s quality
improvement program.
• Ensures that there are processes in place to monitor and measure all activities related to
performance improvement.
• Provides direction and coordination of quality improvement activities utilizing
continuous quality improvement principles and methodologies.
• Coordinates activities related to clinical record review for data collection.
• Complies, trends, and reports quality data in the following areas: patient care, safety, risk
management, infection control, outcomes, and customer satisfaction.
• Works collaboratively with nursing supervisors to ensure documentation is complete and
consistent with care and reflects legal requirements.
• As a member of the Patient Grievance Committee collaborates with management
personnel in follow-up of concerns expressed by patients, families, and physicians.
• Establishes a process model for improvement and provides education and training to
organization personnel on the performance improvement plan, as well as team
development.
• Responsible for ensuring processes to monitor and evaluate safety, risk management, and
infection control programs.
• Coordinates, educates and implements monitoring activities for safety, risk management,
and infection control.
• Coordinates mandatory in-service programs on OSHA regulations for safety and
infection control.
• Acts as a resource to personnel in identifying safety and risk management issues for
patients and personnel.
• Review all incident reports for completeness, risk, standard of care determination, and
appropriate follow-up. Maintains a log for trending and makes recommendations related
to trends identified.
• Maintains current knowledge related to home care safety and infection control standards.
• Collaborates with nursing supervisors to provide a process to promote and ensure
employee orientation, competency, and in-service education programs.
• Assists in the identification of skills for annual competence and provides in-service
training support.
• Maintains aggregate records of employee orientation and annual competency
requirements as part of the PI plan.
• Monitor organization compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Maintains current knowledge related to Medicare Conditions of Participation and the
Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) standards to ensure that the
organization is compliant with state, federal, and accreditation guidelines.
• Responsible for ensuring policies and procedures reflect all related local, state, federal,
and ACHC standards and makes recommendations for policy changes to the governing
board.
• Acts as a resource to clinical supervisors regarding standards, policies, and regulations
and provides in-service training to leadership and personnel as needed in these areas.
• Acts as a clinical resource to personnel.
• Maintains updated nursing knowledge and skills.
• Assists with patient visits as needed.
• Assists with administrative calls on a rotational basis and clinical calls as needed.
• Helps the community education team in meeting community education needs.
• Make public speaking engagements as scheduled by the community education team.
• Maintains positive relationships with referral sources.
• Maintains a positive image in the community.
• Acts as a representative of the organization at community meetings, and civic and
professional organizations as needed.
• Promotes self-growth and collegial relations with others in the home care industry.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops,
reviewing professional publications, establishing personal and professional networks, and
participating in professional organizations or societies.
The above statements are intended to be a representative summary of the major duties and
responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to
perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description

Pay scale $35-$38 /hour