Senior Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Nurse - Home Care
Company: Akron Children's Hospital
Location: Peninsula
Posted on: April 28, 2024
Job Description:
Full Time40 Hours/WeekMonday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pmOnsite, 5
days/weekSummary:The Sr. Quality Assurance Performance Improvement
Nurse is responsible for collecting, processing, and coordinating
information and activities pertaining to quality and performance
improvement for all clinical departments reporting to the Home Care
Director. Responsible for achieving, reporting, and maintaining all
regulatory and accreditation requirements in Home Care and other
areas of responsibility as assigned. The Sr. Quality Assurance
Performance Improvement Nurse will be responsible for monitoring,
auditing, and educating on compliance standards as well as
developing and maintaining action plans for any needed compliance
correction. The Sr. Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Nurse
is responsible for the surveillance, identification, prevention,
control, and investigation of infectious and communicable diseases
under the Home Health Care umbrella. Responsibilities:
- Coordinates quality and performance improvement processes for
the clinical departments in coordination with leadership, using
evidence-based improvement science practices, including compliance
with applicable regulatory and accreditation bodies.
- Collaborates with Analytics to analyze and evaluate data and
clinical information and compares to data from external sources.
Uses data to identify, trend, prioritize and implement improvement
projects and ensure all assigned departments meet key performance
metrics.
- Assists in the development, evaluation and implementation of
the Quality Assurance and Assessment Program, QAPI Program and
projects, Department of Health Plans of Corrections and restorative
nursing programs.
- Develops and leads interdisciplinary teams to implement
Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs).
- Assists in providing in-service training and continuing
educational programs to nursing staff in accordance with federal,
state and local regulations and Home Health policies and
procedures.
- Effectively interacts with staff, residents, their significant
others and the ancillary health care team members in accordance
with Akron Children's Home Care.
- Serves as the electronic medical records point person for
facilitating training of nursing staff, providing training when new
computer procedures are developed and resolving issues that arise
from the Medical Records software use at Akron Children's Home
Care.
- Provides annual continuing educational programs for staff as
required by the state, federal and local agencies to maintain
compliance with licensure.
- Participates and assists in ensuring compliance with surveyor
pathways used by State and Federal surveyors to prevent various
being cited.
- Participates in Care Plan Meetings as needed depending on the
specific issue of concern.
- Leads interdisciplinary quality and performance improvement
teams, reporting out to various department, organization, and
contracted entities.
- Monitors clinical, operational, and organizational performance
to ensure safety and promote quality outcomes for the patient,
family, and staff.
- Mentors and collaborates with department staff to implement
evidence-based performance improvement practices.
- Acts as a change agent to promote a culture of continuous
improvement, putting patients/families at the center of all
activities.
- Understands, adheres to and educates the department in
regulatory standards, as they apply to performance improvement,
regulatory and accreditation requirements, and departmental key
performance metrics.
- Assists in the development, evaluation and implementation of
the Quality Assurance and Assessment Program, QAPI Program and
projects, Department of Health Plans of Corrections, and
restorative nursing programs.
- Provides in-service training, governmental required annual
continuing educational programs, and continuing educational
programs to staff in accordance with federal, state, and local
regulations as well as hospital and departmental policies and
standards of care.
- Other duties, as required. Other information:Technical
Expertise
- Experience with project management for interdisciplinary teams
is required.
- Experience working with all levels within an organization,
demonstrated initiative, and good professional judgement is
required.
- Ability to work independently and with minimal direct
supervision and as a team member.
- Clinically competent in post-acute care and skilled nursing
care, professional, and a licensed registered nurse who uses the
nursing process to reduce risk and develop interventions to prevent
resident incidents from occurring.
- Critical and analytical reasoning, astute clinical judgement,
strong communication (verbal and written) interpersonal,
organizational, and leaderships skills required.
- Exceptional capacity to deal successfully with a variety of
individuals and ability to work with and provide care and services
to difficult people.
- Demonstrates professional, appropriate, effective, and tactful
communication skills, including written, verbal and
non-verbal.
- Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint] or
similar software is required. Epic software or similar EMR software
is preferred. Education and Experience
- Master of Science in Nursing degree with a current unrestricted
license as a Registered Nurse in Ohio is required.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant clinical experience in nursing
required. Pediatric ambulatory, quality/performance improvement
science, population health, care management, long term care,
post-acute care, skilled nursing care and/or health plan experience
is preferred.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart
Association is required.
- Certification by a nationally recognized care management or
performance improvement organization preferred.
- Completion of a standardized quality/performance improvement
and/or evidence-based practice implementation course preferred
(i.e., IQI, IHI, EBP Immersion, etc.) required or must be obtained
within one year of hire.
- Years of experience supervising: None. Full Time FTE:
1.000000
Keywords: Akron Children's Hospital, Cleveland Heights , Senior Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Nurse - Home Care, Healthcare , Peninsula, Ohio
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