Quality Nurse Consultant - Vallejo, United States - Kaiser Permanente
Description
Job Summary:
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.
- 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.
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.
- Bachelors degree in nursing, business administration, economics, health care administration, operation research, public health administration, or other related field.
- 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.
- Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/Just Culture/Project Management/Lean/IP certification.
- Masters degree preferred.
PrimaryLocation :
California,Vallejo,Vallejo Hospital (Old Tower)
HoursPerWeek : 32
Shift :
Day
Workdays :
Week 1: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri; Week 2: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:01 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:01 PM
Job Schedule :
Part-time
Job Type :
Standard
Employee Status :
Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation :
NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level :
Individual Contributor
Job Category :
Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department :
Vallejo KFRC - Hospital Administration - 0201
Travel :
No
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