Nursing Quality Specialist - Perioperative/Procedural
About The Position
NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center providing comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a significant regional healthcare provider, we are dedicated to medical education and research, offering a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient services. At NYU Langone Health, we champion equity and inclusion, fostering an environment where our diverse and talented faculty, staff, and students can thrive by valuing individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. This position offers an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Nursing Quality Specialist - Perioperative/Procedural. The successful candidate will support the quality and safety programs within the Department of Nursing, providing facilitation and support for quality improvement initiatives undertaken by nursing staff and multidisciplinary teams. This role involves assisting the Director of Nursing Quality with assessing learning needs related to quality and performance improvement, and providing education and mentorship in continuous quality improvement methodologies. The specialist will also participate in monitoring regulatory compliance, identifying improvement opportunities, and assisting patient care units in developing and implementing improvement strategies. Additionally, the role includes assisting with benchmarking activities against national databases like the National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) and the University Healthsystem Consortium (UHC), among others.
Requirements
- Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State
- Master's degree in nursing
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and/or Certified Professional Patient Safety (CPPS) upon eligibility
- Ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion to address patient/family satisfaction and quality indicators.
- Evidence of excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, organization, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills.
- Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association
- Three to five years of clinical experience in a specialty area, or combination of staff nurse/leadership experience in the specialty area.
- Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
Responsibilities
- Fosters a culture embedded in NYULHs tripartite mission: to care, to teach, and to discover.
- Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency. Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
- Effectively articulates understanding of nursing process, interdisciplinary collaboration, quality and performance management, patient safety, continuum of care concepts, customer service and healthy work environments.
- Identifies factors and participates in programs to promote satisfaction of patients, families and other disciplines. Stays abreast of trends and issues pertaining to nursing work environments and the Departments of Nursing strategic plan.
- Coordination in the annual evaluation of the Nursing quality and performance improvement plan. Uses sound methodology in analyzing data, evaluating outcomes and driving excellence. Maintains clinical and functional expertise.
- Supports evidence-based practice by assisting nursing staff in development of process standards that are consistent with evidence-based literature, regulatory requirements, and pertinent professional nursing standards.
- Collaborates and supports the Director of Nursing Quality in the provision of education to various levels of nursing staff in the use of performance improvement methodologies applicable to nursing quality. Establishes collaborative relationships with nursing staff, leadership, medical staff, and other administrative staff.
- Collaborates with nursing leadership in development of presentations, reports and publication of quality and safety program outcomes. Provides support for quality improvement teams including arranging meetings, providing minutes, managing project timelines, and preparing reports.
- Supports the organizations journey toward achieving and maintaining Magnet Recognition. Leading quality improvement initiatives, collecting and analyzing data, collaborating with nursing leadership to meet the empirical outcomes and standards required by the Magnet framework.
- Supports unit-based leadership by developing tools to monitor outcomes at the unit level and develop quality initiatives that reflect their specialty that achieve evidence-based practice.
- Reviews and evaluates occurrences related to nursing care reported through the electronic occurrence system related to nursing care. Assists with review and development of interdisciplinary and interdepartmental structure standards, process and outcome standards in conjunction with other nursing leadership. Participates in RCAs, FMEAs, ACAs and assists in implementation and monitoring of corrective action plan.
Benefits
- Financial security benefits
- Generous time-off program
- Employee resources groups for peer support
- Holistic employee wellness program (physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
