Job description

Job description

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 Responsibilities:

• 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 centers continuous survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Minimum three (3) years of combined experience in quality, risk management, patient safety, infection prevention, accreditation/regulation, licensing or operational clinical leadership in a healthcare setting.

Education

• Bachelors degree in nursing, business administration, economics, health care administration, operation research, public health administration, or other related field.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

Additional Requirements:

• CIC certificate required within three (3) years, if primary job focus is Infection Control.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of three (3) years experience working in quality operations in an acute care setting.
• Masters degree preferred.
• Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/Just Culture/Project Management/Lean/IP certification.

Secondary Functions:

• Posting in Richmond but primary work site is in OAK w occ travel to RCH. Focus of QNC role is med-surg service line

Employee Status:

Regular

Travel:

No

Job Level:

Individual Contributor

Job Type:

Standard

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $168,000.00 - $172,000.00 per year

Experience level:

• 3 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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