Quality Nurse Consultant

2 weeks ago


Vallejo, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time

**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.
- 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,Vallejo,Vallejo Hospital (Old Tower)

HoursPerWeek : 32

Shift : Day

Workdays : Week 1: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri; Week 2: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri

WorkingHoursStart : 08:01 AM

WorkingHoursEnd : 05:01 PM

Job Schedule : Part-time

Job Type : Standard

Employee Status : Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners

Department : Vallejo KFRC - Hospital Administration - 0201

Travel : No



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