RN- Quality Improvement
Company: Beaumont Health
Location: Royal Oak
Posted on: June 17, 2022
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Job Description:
GENERAL SUMMARY:The Quality and Patient Safety Nurse Clinician
utilizes clinical expertise to identify patient safety concerns or
trends, assesses the medical group/hospital's quality of care,
promotes patient safety throughout the continuum of care and leads
teams to improve quality and patient safety. Is directly involved
in medical group/hospital committees and process initiatives to
assist leadership with creating process improvements designed to
optimize care, quality and patient safety related performance
improvement activities.ESSENTIAL DUTIES:1. Coordinates data
collection, data analysis, trending and reporting to enhance
patient care and safety improvements. Utilizes data to drive best
practice for quality and safety improvements within and across care
delivery settings.2. Monitors and analyzes incident reporting data
entered into rL solutions. Implements through departmental
facilitation and collaboration identified improvements based on rL
reporting trend analysis.3. Investigates, facilitates and tracks
the Root Cause Analysis work regarding serious safety events
including the root cause development and action plan implementation
monitoring from end to end.4. In conjunction with the site PSO and
Director, organizes and conducts patient safety rounds in clinical
care areas to: embed a culture of safety, identify safety
improvement opportunities and establish support for safe clinical
practice5. Responsible for analyzing and processing appropriate
reports to provide the necessary data to meet pay-for-performance
requirements.6. Assist department/physician leadership with
standards and report interpretation and recognition of trends and
PI opportunities7. Works independently with all levels of medical
group/hospital management, (including Senior Administration), and
Physician Chiefs with the purpose of assisting leaders to
successfully achieve specific quality and patient safety targets.8.
Educates leadership and medical staff regarding regulatory and
accrediting requirements, industry guidelines and practices, and
safety performance improvement initiative9. Provides clinical and
performance improvement subject matter expertise to departments,
medical staff and clinical operations.10. Initiates/participates in
interdisciplinary projects to improve organizational performance
related to quality and patient safety.11. Assists healthcare
providers to progress with quality measures through the development
and implementation of effective strategies and interventionsThis
document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and
authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list
of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore,
that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond
those explicitly described.STANDARD REQUIREMENTS:1. Supports the
Mission, Value and Vision of Beaumont Health (BH). Demonstrates
personal commitment through active involvement in the performance
improvement process.2. Exhibits excellent customer service skills
and behaviors toward internal and external customers and
co-workers. Promotes positive public relations with
patients/residents, family members, guests, and others.3. Supports
and adheres to all Beaumont Health's customer service, service
excellence, and performance standards. Supports and participates
with all required compliance standards that may be department
specific and/or identified by the organizations including
in-service training, acceptable attendance, uniform and dress
code.4. Adheres to HIPAA requirements and maintains confidentiality
of all data, including patient/resident, employee and operations
information.5. Supports and participates in a collaborative
team-oriented environment - cooperates and works together with all
co-workers, plans and completes job duties, uses appropriate
communications in sensitive and emotional situations and follows up
as appropriate regarding reported complaints, problems and
concerns.6. Supports, cooperates with and demonstrates safe work
practices and attitudes, follows safety rules - including universal
precautions - reports and prevents/corrects unsafe conditions and
behaviors, and participates in organizational and departmental
safety programs.7. Completes all required compliance standards that
may be department specific and/or identified by the organization.8.
Maintains current licensure, registration and/or certification, as
applicable, at all times.STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS:To perform this
job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are
representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential duties.A. Education /
Training: --- Bachelor degree required. Master's degree in nursing,
business or healthcare field preferred.B. Work Experience: --- 3 -5
years' experience in patient safety activities and/or clinical
quality improvements required.C. Certification, Licensure,
Registration: --- RN licensure required, certification in patient
safety/process improvement preferred.D. Other Qualifications: ---
Skilled in quality improvement principles and patient safety
industry standards.WORKING CONDITIONS:A. Physical Effort: ---
StrengthPosition requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 30
lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability to
lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects
up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift up to 40 lbs. --- Manual
DexterityPosition requires incumbent to constantly perform simple
motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative
skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to frequently
perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as
positioning patients. --- CoordinationPosition requires incumbent
to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking.
Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such
as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for
transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such
as taking patients temps and pulses. --- MobilityPositions requires
incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for
prolonged periods, frequently bend such as when caring for a
patient in bed. --- Visual DiscriminationPositions requires
incumbent to constantly see objects far away as in driving and see
close objects such as reading thermometers. --- HearingPositions
requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with
some background noise as in answering phone/intercom. Frequently be
able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.B. Work
Environment: --- Employee may be frequently exposed to
electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs. Occasionally exposed to
hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust,
toxins, cytotoxions, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries,
loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards,
or poisonous substances. Infrequently exposed to blood, body
tissue, or fluids. Seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature,
grease, oil, and radiation. --- May be expected to travel between
sites for this position.--- - - -Beaumont Health grants equal
employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to
race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion,
genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender,
pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
veteran status, or any other legally protected category. -
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