Nursing Quality Specialist - Full Time, Days Job at Long Island Community Hospital

Long Island Community Hospital Patchogue, NY 11772

Overview:
The nursing quality specialist supports the department in promoting nursing quality and patient safety. Participates in the patient safety programs and organization’s quality improvement activities. Facilitates and interacts with front line staff and with multidisciplinary team in the new initiatives. Identifies and escalates the learning needs associated with nursing quality and performance improvement to the Director of Nursing Quality. Supports and provides education with and serves as a mentor with continuous quality improvement and utilizing the tools for quality improvement. Engages in monitoring of compliance with regulatory compliance and assists the units in identifying the quality improvement projects and the process in developing and implementing the quality improvement projects. Assists in the audits, chart reviews, investigations, RCAs, ACAs, and in FMEA and also takes part in developing corrective actions and in monitoring the compliance. Takes part in data entry and helps NDNQI bench marking as required. Will collaborate in all activities in the organization’s magnet journey.
Responsibilities:
  • Engages and promotes initiates/programs to improve staff, patient, family satisfaction.
  • Verbalizes and demonstrates the nursing process, quality improvement, performance improvement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and assists in establishing healthy work environments.
  • Demonstrates the ability to navigate the medical records and runs reports.
  • Understands and validates the standards of nursing and patient care that supports the professional practice in the organization.
  • Exhibits knowledge and understands the values of professional nursing and the frame work of practice.
  • Participates in the organization’s nurse recruitment and retention activities.
  • Understands and articulates the importance of nurse sensitive quality metrics and other indicators of patient safety and regulatory standards
  • Participates and collaborates in developing policies, procedures, and setting up unit specific standards activities with nurse leaders.
  • Assists in the audits, chart reviews, investigations, RCAs, ACAs, and in FMEA and also takes part in developing corrective actions and in monitoring the compliance.
  • Ability to analyze data and creates reports for dissemination which assists in driving excellence.
  • Demonstrates ability to assist and review the incident reports pertaining to nursing care.
  • Facilitates and participates in the unit based quality improvement initiates and supports with evidence based practices.
  • Demonstrates ability in creating auditing checklists and monitoring tools
  • Supports the Director and the colleagues of the nursing quality department and participates in the council that nursing quality participates.
  • Participates and promotes the regulatory requirement compliance activities.
  • Assists in setting up meetings, taking minutes and sharing with the team, and create reports.
  • Supports the Director of Nursing Quality and other nurse leaders in creating presentations and assists publication of the quality improvement initiatives of the organization
  • Demonstrates strong interdisciplinary relationships with nursing, other disciplines and also with all levels of management personnel.
  • Exhibits enthusiasm and takes part in various nursing council and committees as requires.
  • Actively participates in all the educational activities of the nursing quality department and able to educate front line staff.
  • Stays updated with the best practices, regulatory requirements, issues, and trends in nursing profession and also related to nursing quality and patient safety.
  • Maintains clinical expertise.
  • Assists in takes part in the leadership developing programs pertinent to quality and patient safety.
Qualifications:

Current NYS Nurse License required. MS preferred.


Previous relevant experience may be substituted for advanced degree.


Must have a minimum 2 - 5 years experience in a hospital clinical setting demonstrating leadership


Demonstrates ability to work independently, uses good judgement in decision making and accesses resources effectively


Demonstrates ability to collect and analyze data and to prepare effective, accurate reports.


Demonstrates the ability to communicate effectively (oral and written) to all audiences. All communication is assertive, influential and credible which contributes to establishing trusting professional relationships.


Demonstrates ability to successfully adapt to constant change.


Demonstrates the ability to set priorities, organize workload, meet timelines and achieve productivity requirements.


Demonstrates good customer relations and adherence to the Hospital's Core Cultural Values.


Possesses above average documentation skills including computer literacy (Microsoft Office, electronic medical record and specialized software)

Maintains current knowledge of CQI processes.

Maintains privacy of employee and patient information



Preferred Qualifications:
Master's in nursing or related field preferred. Certification in specialty area desirable. Membership in relevant professional organizations



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