Quality Nurse Specialist (Salaried/Full-time)
About The Position
Washington Regional Medical System is a community-owned, locally governed, non-profit healthcare system in Northwest Arkansas. Our mission is to improve the health of people in the communities we serve through compassionate, high-quality care, prevention, and wellness education. The Quality Nurse Specialist supports hospital-wide quality improvement through clinical expertise, data analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This role reviews and interprets clinical performance data, monitors and maintains data submissions for quality management software, and ensures compliant regulatory reporting to CMS and Joint Commission. The Specialist partners with providers, nursing leaders, and operational teams to identify opportunities and implement sustainable improvements in clinical processes, patient outcomes, and care delivery.
Requirements
- Must be a graduate of an accredited nursing program
- RN license, required.
- Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience required.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Risk, Infection Control, Clinical Audit, or Utilization will be considered in lieu of clinical experience.
Nice To Haves
- CPHQ and/or CPPS, preferred.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for supporting and advancing the hospital’s inpatient clinical quality
- Works in partnership with director of quality, manager of quality, and chief medical officer (CMO) to identify clinical focus points
- Monitors and identifies clinical quality measures, facilitates evidence-based interventions, and evaluates outcomes
- Primary focus on inpatient clinical quality measures including sepsis, total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty, and other measures as determined by director and CMO
- Understands the components of data abstraction as it relates to identified clinical quality measures from a quality department requirement
- Serves as a bridge between clinical practice and quality data
- Maintain assigned clinical quality data to improve quality measures and enhance public reputation.
- Ensures data is timely, complete, accurate, and consistent with applicable measure definitions, technical specifications, and submission requirements.
- Support inpatient teams in establishing baseline performance, selecting measures, monitoring interventions, and evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of improvement efforts.
- Participate in clinical case reviews, performance improvement meetings, quality committees, and service-line workgroups as assigned.
- Assist with development and implementation of evidence-based clinical practices, standardized workflows, creating clinical pathways, education, and tools designed to reduce variation and improve outcomes.
- Maintain current knowledge of clinical quality measures, quality improvement methods, and applicable regulatory and accreditation expectations.
- Support the development of standardized workflows, clinical practices, education, and tools that reduce variation and promote reliable, high-quality care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
