Clinical RN Quality Coordinator $15K sign-on/$15K relocation

Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation•Anchorage, AK

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical RN Quality Coordinator provides a wide variety of support services to the Quality Director, including identifying, planning, and executing improvement projects. The position supports quality improvement, patient safety, regulatory and accreditation work, and data-informed decision-making across the organization. It works with clinicians, clinical leaders, administrators, and external organizations, and reports to the Quality Director. Work is performed in an office setting and generally follows a Monday-through-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. schedule. Some evening or weekend hours may be necessary in emergency situations. Travel may be required in and out of Alaska and to villages in small, unpressurized aircraft. The role requires use of standard office equipment and the ability to perform the listed physical activities and lift or carry up to 20 pounds, with or without accommodation.

Requirements

Associate degree in Nursing.
Four years of increasingly responsible experience in a health care environment.
Ability to run or create reports from various reporting applications.
Training or experience in quality concepts, organizational dynamics, change theory, and improvement tools and methods.
Familiarity with statistical processes such as control charts and cause-and-effect diagrams.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Self-starter with strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Ability to perform administrative support work using personal initiative and meet tight deadlines.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and protect patient information.
Ability to maintain functional awareness of quality requirements from CMS, HRSA, The Joint Commission (TJC), and other regulatory bodies.
Ability to use standard office equipment, including a computer, telephone, and copying machine.
Ability to see, hear, speak, walk, sit, bend, kneel, and lift and carry up to 20 pounds, with or without accommodation.
Ability to travel in and out of Alaska and to villages in small, unpressurized aircraft, if required.
Ability to communicate and cooperate with a wide variety of people and represent BBAHC professionally, courteously, and with sensitivity to cultural differences.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Yupik speaking.

Responsibilities

Analyze systems and processes, including workflows, relationships, stakeholders, and organizational culture, to identify improvement opportunities and key drivers.
Support regulatory and accreditation activities, including participating in surveys and accreditation readiness.
Support the Quality Director in hypothesis- and data-driven problem solving by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and displaying qualitative and quantitative data.
Report and explain measures and data to internal and external audiences.
Help clinicians, clinical leaders, and administrators understand and manage improvement measures, performance dashboards, and scorecards, and use data analysis for fact-based decision-making.
Collaborate with clinicians and clinical leaders to design tests that evaluate the impact of changes on clinical processes and outcomes, and facilitate organizational learning about improvement efforts.
Advise clinicians and clinical leaders on transitioning from testing to implementation; coach them to incorporate proven changes into processes and systems and spread improvement.
Provide consultation on change adoption and diffusion, including management of resistance and constraints.
Teach improvement science and methods to clinicians and clinical leaders.
Model a standardized approach to improvement work.
Act as an organizational patient safety champion and support patient safety concepts, methods, and high-reliability principles as a working member of the patient safety and quality improvement leadership.
Communicate and cooperate with BBAHC management and staff and with organizations, agencies, and activities outside BBAHC; represent BBAHC professionally.
Learn and apply organizational and departmental policies, procedures, and rules, as well as applicable laws, codes, and regulations.