Registered Nurse - Clinical Quality Improvement Coordinator - Full-Time

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides project oversight, including planning, scheduling, vendor management, risk assessment, change management, time management, interpersonal leadership skills, and project control.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to develop action plans driven by Nurse Sensitive Indicators metrics and annual strategic quality objectives.
• Applies lean and process improvement principles and quality improvement tools and techniques to identified processes/systems/ tasks.
• Creates timelines and deliverables for workflow development, implementation and monitoring for selected quality measures.
• Compiles data for and prepares regularly scheduled or special reports, analyses and statements.
• Educates to measure definitions when sharing data. Facilitates conversations and assists staff to identify and translate quality outcomes into a change in practice (e.g., policy, procedure, process, protocol, etc.).
• Researches and analyzes requests, using knowledge of the system network and internal and external resources, for possible process improvement/quality improvement opportunities, as assigned by the Director, Vice President-Medical Affairs, or Regional Director.
• Provides consultation regarding data analysis and interpretation to clinicians, leadership and others. Works collaboratively to provide consistent, meaningful information to all levels of the organization, including the information provided to the Hospital Board of Directors.
• Uses problem analysis skills and critical thinking to collect and analyze data, propose solutions, develop and write reports, letters and materials needed to achieve desirable results as requested. Able to manage advanced database and spreadsheet applications (e.g., formulas, linking calculations, graphing and reporting) as well as web-based systems needed to obtain or manage clinical information.

Common Expectations:

• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops.
• Routinely performs professional clinical improvement assessments in all job aspects. Participates in Performance Improvement projects to enhance quality and streamline workflow.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.