Job Openings RN-Quality Clinical Excellence Specialist

About the job RN-Quality Clinical Excellence Specialist

Overview and responsibilities:

  • Coordinates efforts to obtain and maintain certifications of excellence including Heart Failure and Stroke. Coordinates QI efforts, either within a department or withing a larger QA team, related to data collection and reporting for Disease Specific Certifications/Accreditations.
  • Concurrently coordinates all activities / metrics / standard compliance related to disease specific care for HF, Stroke
  • Collects, enters, analyzes, and presents QI data and activities. This includes Core measure data; hospital and medical staff quality data, required measure data, complaint and occurrence data and peer review data as related to Disease Specific care.
  • Facilitates hospital-wide compliance with certification specific accreditation standards.
  • Champions performance improvement teams for disease specific care
  • Provides staff education and serves and a disease specific resource for hospital leaders and staff
  • Lead accreditation survey activities
  • Provides Quality orientation for new employees
  • Participates in interdisciplinary team rounds
  • Demonstrates problem-solving skills and implements processes to improve patient care delivery
  • Lead community outreach efforts related to disease specific care

Qualifications:

  • RN licensure is required
  • Bachelor's degree is required
  • 2-3 years clinical hospital experience
  • Chart review and ability to extract information and speak to the information

Nice-to-have Qualifications:

  • Certification Heart Failure Nurse
  • SME on clinical practice guidelines and evidenced based practice for treating patients with stroke, heart failure and chest pain.

Benefits: 

  • Competitive Health (Medical, Dental, Vision) Insurance and 401K + Match
  • Generous Personal and Sick Leave package
  • Annual Director Bonus Eligibility
  • FREE Employee Assistance Program mental, physical, and financial wellness assistance
  • Company Paid Life Insurance, plus FSA, STD, and other insurance opportunities
  • Opportunities for education and training through partnership with Duke LifePoint Healthcare
  • And much more