Registered Nurse RN Quality Specialist

Banner Health•Tucson, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Banner Health's elite Solid Organ Transplant Team as a Quality RN, where you'll play a pivotal role in advancing patient safety and clinical excellence across our Phoenix and Tucson programs. This dynamic position offers the unique opportunity to blend your nursing expertise with quality improvement, leading adverse event reviews, conducting clinical audits, and driving meaningful change through process improvement initiatives. Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of transplant specialists, you'll investigate opportunities for enhancement, present findings to key stakeholders, and spearhead projects that directly impact patient outcomes. We're seeking a compassionate, highly organized RN with either transplant or quality experience (ideally both) who can navigate complex priorities while maintaining a supportive, positive approach to sensitive discussions. If you're ready to make a lasting impact in one of healthcare's most specialized fields, contribute to regulatory excellence, and grow alongside industry-leading transplant professionals, this is your opportunity to elevate your career while elevating care.

Requirements

Requires Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in nursing or other healthcare related field and either an RN license in state worked OR a clinical background with current license/certification or equivalent experience.
Requires a proficiency level typically attained with five years acute care clinical experience.
Requires ability to perform complex statistical analysis and highly developed problem solving skills.
Requires the ability to manage programs and projects.
Requires demonstrated excellence in interpersonal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Registered Nurse (RN) license preferred.
Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) certification is preferred.
Experience with process improvement, regulatory/accreditation programs, data management, and analysis including graphic development and presentations is highly desirable
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Coordinates investigation, analysis, and responds to quality/patient safety issues, events, significant care issues or trends. Leads and/or facilitate root cause analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and process improvement, working with multidisciplinary teams.
Develops and analyzes data for administrative and clinical decision making, as well as regulatory requirements. Coordinates implementation of data collection processes: provide analysis, summary, research and benchmarking. Prepares and present reports for appropriate facility, system, and other external agencies. Provides oversight to projects including data abstracting and data entry as appropriate.
Serves as a resource and leads and/or facilities task forces to plan, implement and coordinate facility activities to maximize service quality, effectiveness and efficiency. Collaborates with key stakeholders to evaluate, plan and implement process improvements and patient safety programs across the facility and/or system.
Supports implementation of facility quality and patient safety goals, policies, procedures, and activities designed to meet the requirements of regulatory and accrediting agencies such as JCAHO, CMS, DHS, and the peer review organizations.
Acts as consultant and educator in program development and special projects as determined by their supervisor.
Participates in implementation of evidence-based practices at the facility or system level.
May coordinate peer review activities for physicians and other healthcare providers and provide information for departmental improvement activities, credentialing, and reappointment.
In some roles, this position may supervise professional staff.
Responsibilities cross all levels of internal customers including the department, facility and system, and external customers including but not limited to the medical staff, the community, regulatory bodies and state agencies. For those positions directly supervising professional employees, the position has full authority for employment actions including selection, training, coaching, and performance reviews.