Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist

Northwell • New York, NY

2d • $85,090 - $147,220

About The Position

Participates in interdisciplinary and process improvement teams to identify potential future uses of information systems and improvements in their current use. Serves as a nursing informatics resource to individuals and teams within Patient Care Services. Supports performance improvement work, quality reporting, investigations, corrective actions, and related projects, using office technology and database systems to prepare documents and formal presentations.

Requirements

• BSN nursing degree.
• Current New York State license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse; specialized certifications as needed.
• Current New York State license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse or Nurse Practitioner, or current New York State Department of Education license as a Registered Physician Assistant.
• One to three years of clinical experience, including general knowledge of Quality Management principles, NYPORTS, and JCAHO requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Perioperative or endoscopy experience.

Responsibilities

• Participate in interdisciplinary and process improvement teams to identify potential uses of information systems and improvements to current system use.
• Serve as a nursing informatics resource to individuals and teams within Patient Care Services.
• Maintain knowledge of organizational Performance Improvement methodology.
• Keep up to date with trends and advances in Nursing Informatics and developments in hardware and software technology, applying that knowledge to support users and process teams.
• Participate in preparing Performance Improvement reports for Care Services committee presentations and report to Hospital Quality Management for external benchmarking as needed.
• Assist with focus studies to measure and assess patient care services’ process stability, patient outcomes, and achievement of organizational goals.
• Assist in coordinating investigations of state-reportable incidents and complaints, sentinel events, citations, and data collection for corrective actions.
• Participate in special projects related to quality issues; assist with recommendations and coordination of corrective-action plan implementation.
• Assist in preparing monthly variance reports for leadership, physicians, and other hospital personnel as needed.
• Present patient-specific issues and other concerns to appropriate leadership and Performance Improvement Committees to resolve conflicts.
• Use office technology and database systems to perform job functions and create documents for formal presentations and storyboards.
• Perform related duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time