Quality Nurse Consultant - Sepsis
Company: Kaiser
Location: Richmond
Posted on: May 3, 2024
Job Description:
Job Summary: Coordinates quality, accreditation, regulatory and
licensing (AR&L), patient safety and risk management activities
for the medical center. Provides clinical, educational, consulting,
and coordinating support to assigned areas. Uses nurses licensure
as a substantial amount of scientific knowledge or technical skill
for indirect patient care services that ensure the safety, comfort,
personal hygiene, and protection of patients; and the performance
of disease prevention and restorative measures. Essential
Responsibilities:
- Acts as a consultant for quality, AR&L, risk, patient
safety, and infection prevention activities and programs.
- Assists with quality management studies through data
collection, data input and report development.
- Analyzes, interprets and provides recommendation based on
quality principles.
- Organize and coordinate project planning, group process
facilitation, training, and appropriate application of information
technology.
- Reports all occurrences which may lead to medical center
liability and follows up as necessary.
- Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration for implementation
of evidence based guidelines, criteria and other clinical tools to
reduce variation in clinical practice and to optimize clinical
outcomes.
- Educates physicians and staff regarding regional projects or
regulatory reviews, i.e. the interpretation of regulatory
requirements and the methods of compliance when preparing for a
review or the interpretation of project goals.
- Analyzes risk management/patient safety principles and provides
recommendations for the incorporation of risk management principles
in each medical center.
- Provides support services to appropriate medical center staff
in implementing risk management principles into credentialing
processes.
- Participates in special projects as assigned, such as
statistical reports for state, federal, and local agencies.
- Applies the appropriate performance improvement methodology to
address improvement opportunity (eg. MFI, Lean DMAIC).
- May support infection prevention and control activities.
- Supports maintenance of IC records and policy/procedure manual
reviews and revisions.
- Supports the medical centers continuous survey readiness
program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards. Basic
Qualifications: Experience
- Minimum three (3) years of combined experience in quality, risk
management, patient safety, infection prevention,
accreditation/regulation, licensing or operational clinical
leadership in a healthcare setting. Education
- Bachelors degree in nursing, business administration,
economics, health care administration, operation research, public
health administration, or other related field. License,
Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire
Additional Requirements:
- CIC certificate required within three (3) years, if primary job
focus is Infection Control.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership
environment. Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of three (3) years experience working in quality
operations in an acute care setting.
- Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/Just Culture/Project
Management/Lean/IP certification.
- Masters degree preferred.PrimaryLocation :
California,Richmond,Richmond HospitalHoursPerWeek : 40Shift :
DayWorkdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, FriWorkingHoursStart : 08:00
AMWorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PMJob Schedule : Full-timeJob Type :
StandardEmployee Status : RegularEmployee Group/Union Affiliation :
NUE-NCAL-09 NUE Non Union EmployeeJob Level : Individual
ContributorJob Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse
PractitionersDepartment : Oakland Hospital - Hosp Adm-Quality
Improvement - 0201Travel : NoKaiser Permanente is an equal
opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive
workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy),
age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental
status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status,
genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of
diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.
Keywords: Kaiser, Richmond , Quality Nurse Consultant - Sepsis, Healthcare , Richmond, California
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