As a RN Quality and Safety Nurse Specialist, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
The Quality & Safety Nurse Specialist uses a comprehensive view to identify accreditation, safety and risk vulnerabilities of the organization and subsequently leads multidisciplinary teams in implementing improvements resulting in standardized practices, error reduction and error prevention.
- Supports survey readiness by maintaining a working knowledge of accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Utilizes knowledge of quality, risk, and performance improvement to assess the organization for safety issues and opportunities for improvement.
- Identifies opportunities for appropriate process improvements.
- Serves as a PI liaison, resource and mentor to staff at all levels of the organization.
- Assists teams in establishing and implementing performance improvement initiatives.
- Utilizes performance improvement and Lean tools and techniques to coach improvement teams.
- Promotes teamwork, communication and collaboration among team members and other stakeholders.
- Uses appropriate meeting management and performance improvement tools and techniques to achieve group objectives.
- Ensures team activities are reported to the appropriate stakeholders for review and follow up.
- Facilitates information sharing of evidence-based practice from one clinical setting and/or department to another.
- Facilitates medical staff peer review activities including monitoring and evaluation of patterns and trends.
- Provides support to the medical staff leadership, Medical Directors, and committees in peer review and performance improvement functions.
- Serves as a liaison and resource to the Nursing organization for performance improvement activities.
- Assists the Executive Director Quality and Safety in designing and refining tools and mechanisms for the Performance Improvement Program.
- Accurately interprets and abstracts clinical information from various sources, including electronic medical records.
- Utilizes appropriate analytical tools and techniques to assist in the aggregation, analysis and presentation of data.
- Uses various electronic databases for data abstraction, storage and data analysis.
- Presents findings and provides recommendations to stakeholders for consideration of additional improvement action as needed.
- Provides feedback to the Executive Director of Quality and Safety regarding the need for education resulting from performance improvement activities.
- Provides education, as necessary, to interested parties on performance improvement or Lean initiatives.
- Coordinates medical staff focus reviews as needed.
- Prepares and forwards clinical quality data to Medical Staff Services for the purpose of Ongoing Professional Performance Evaluation (OPPE) and reappointment.
- Conducts in depth case reviews and assists in facilitating root cause analyses as needed.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of regulatory standards pertaining to performance improvement in assigned settings.
- Participates in appropriate role in disaster and fire drills, fires, and other emergency situations.
- Exercises care in the use and operation of equipment and reference materials.
- Ensures routine maintenance to maintain continued functioning of equipment.
- Maintains work area in a safe and organized manner.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree, Required
State of NH RN License, Required
<1 year quality & safety nursing, preferred
Benefits
Catholic Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."
Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
HCA Healthcare
Shape the future of healthcare at Catholic Medical Center.
Located in Manchester, NH, Catholic Medical Center is a 330-bed acute care hospital and Level III Trauma Center serving southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. Home to the nationally recognized New England Heart & Vascular Institute and The Mom’s Place—an innovative birthing center that pioneered couplet care—we’re proud to lead in both advanced medicine and compassionate service.
As part of HCA Healthcare’s statewide network of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester hospitals, three freestanding ERs, and over 70 care sites, you’ll join nearly 5,000 colleagues across New Hampshire who are committed to excellence, collaboration, and making a difference every day. At Catholic Medical Center, your work has purpose—and your potential has no limits.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN Quality and Safety Nurse Specialist opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing, apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.