Position Title: Clinical Quality Improvement/ Patient Safety RN Position Code: CQPaSafRN-8030
Department: Quality Management Oracle Title: Click here to enter text.
Reports to: Patient Safety Officer/Manager Safety Sensitive: Yes No
Exempt Status: Yes No
Qualified Candidates must have a BSN, two or more years of experience in Quality Improvement and a current, valid Arizona RN license or compact state RN license
Position Purpose:
All KHI employees are expected to perform their respective tasks and duties in such a way that supports KHI's vision to be among the kindest, highest quality health systems in the country.
Key Responsibilities
- Tracks outcomes of patient safety improvement initiatives ensuring they are measurable, sustainable and aligned with organizational goals
- Help drive performance improvement across functional teams to ensure effective communication and completion of project requirements
- Utilizes quality and safety improvement tools such as PDCA and A3 to design, develop, implement and track patient safety initiatives
- Supports post-implementation monitoring to validate sustained process improvement
- Establish and/or revise procedures necessary for successful implementation of the Quality Improvement program
- Create long-term and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones, identifying and managing risk, and adhering to deadlines
- Facilitate and track program pilots as deemed necessary
- Designs reports and visual dashboards that clearly communicate trends, outcomes and opportunities
- Participates in development and maintenance of numerous quality and safety dashboards and scorecards
- Provides regular progress updates on patient safety initiatives to Senior Leadership and Quality & Patient Safety Council
- Work with Analytics teams to design data reporting around the program's performance, and clinical and financial outcomes
- Collaborates with leadership to develop and spread learnings via Safety Alerts, Advisories and key learnings based on best practices and process improvement initiatives
- Work with different teams to gather requirements, design program details, and present outcomes
- Utilizes trends from safety reports, patient safety rounds and other sources of patient safety data to focus on areas for further analysis and improvement opportunities
- Performs other duties as assigned to support overall effectiveness of department and organization.
Qualifications
Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with a BSN
Experience: 2+ years of experience in Quality Improvement
Certification: Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) within 2 years of hire
License: Current, valid Arizona RN license or compact state RN license
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Leadership skills to delegate tasks and motivate team members to collaborate on projects
- Ability to analyze and plan for cost and risk within projects
- Help drive performance improvement across functional teams to ensure effective communication and completion of project requirements
- Ability to make important decisions under pressure
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities; utilize resources effectively
- Ability to inspire effective teamwork and motivate staff
- Ability to lead by example and to encourage team members to seek solutions
- Self-motivated and excellent problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Manage and monitor clinical quality studies
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to develop dashboards, scorecards and key performance indicators
- Excellent computer skills
Preferences
Education: N/A
Experience: 3+ years of experience in Process Improvement or Patient Safety
Certification: N/A
License: N/A
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: N/A
Special Position Requirements
Exposure Category I, II, III
Work Requirements
- Visual acuity, ability to sit at a computer for up to five hours a day, and minor lifting, up to 25lbs
Date Staff Position Description Created / Revised: 4/2/2026