Quality Nurse Consultant

4 weeks ago

Oakland, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
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.
  • Masters degree preferred.
  • Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/Just Cult

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