Quality and Safety Nurse - Full-time / Part-time

Overview

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California's Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care and some of the most technologically advanced diagnostic equipment on the Central Coast, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare. Santa Cruz is the quintessential beach town. Here, you enjoy life among the most beautiful coastal beaches and redwood forests of California. It was here that Hawaiian royalty first introduced surfing to the mainland--and locals and visitors alike have been riding the waves ever since. Not far from the surf break, music and laughter fill the air at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the West Coast's only remaining seaside amusement park. A few blocks from the beach is Santa Cruz's newly renovated downtown. The pedestrian-friendly, tree-lined streets are filled with vibrant shops and galleries, outdoor bistros and sidewalk musicians--all in keeping with Surf City's offbeat personality. At Dominican Hospital, you can truly change people's lives while living yours with a strong sense of meaning and finding that much-needed balance you deserve. Dignity Health, one of the nation's five largest health care systems, is a 17-state network of more than 300 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. In 2012, Dignity Health provided $1.6 billion in charitable care and services.

Responsibilities

Position Summary:

Working under the Director of Quality Management, the Quality and Safety Nurse has the responsibility to review triggers in the Risk Trigger Monitoring platform and report results to various committees, work groups, physicians and leadership. This position will work extensively with hospital leadership to share findings, confirm solutions and measure results of safety initiatives. This position may be involved in the work groups; however, their primary focus is on the review of triggers and identification of harm and the presenting of information to improve patient outcomes. This position will evaluate care according to evidence based practices.

Core Duties

* Ability to utilize clinical knowledge, skills and expertise to review outliers identified through technology for opportunities to improve patient care, including summarizing opportunities for improvement and intercepting care to improve patient outcomes

* Assists in retrieval of analytics from technology to share results and findings to individuals and groups of leaders who can influence and improve the level of care to patients

* Participate in system level development of technology to reduce harm to patients

* Assume responsibility for other related assignments/duties resulting in improved patient care

* Keep the organization's mission, vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action.

* Ensure that the patient perspective is a driving force behind our actions and business decisions; crafting and implementing service practices that meet patient's and own organization's needs. (Focus also includes internal and external customers

* Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deal effectively with customers, peers and senior executive management and the ability to present reports orally or in written form in a clear and effective manner. A key role of this position is the ability to communicate, engage and partner at all levels of the organization

* Provides leadership and oversight in direct support of the Patient Safety and Quality initiatives under the Risk Trigger Monitoring program

* Has knowledge of processes, tools, techniques, healthcare environment/delivery for assessing and improving the delivery of safe care to patients

* Has knowledge of and the ability to identify and evaluate actual and potential hazards, and identify potential solutions in partnership with other key stakeholders

Qualifications

In some areas, this position will have responsibilities at one hospital while in other areas, this position will cover multiple hospitals in a service area. The Regional Quality and Safety Nurse is a temporary position, designed to support service areas in achieving the deliverables in the Hospital Engagement Network contract. The position is funded through September 30, 2018 with potential of an additional year (ending September 30, 2019.

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university (required). Master's degree (preferred)

* Minimum of three 3 years of recent experience working as a Registered Nurse in a critical care area such as intensive care unit and/or medical surgical (5 years preferred)

* Current applicable state RN license and in good standing with the applicable state's Board of Nursing

* Ability to make effective oral presentations and prepare effective written reports for a variety of audiences

* Demonstrated ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders

* Strong organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks, activities and priorities.

* Strong skill set using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Additional direct and indirect responsibilities and/ or consultative responsibilities may be required.

* Action-oriented, results-oriented, capable of developing relationships at varied levels. Experience working in a high performing team.

* Knowledge of principles of adult learning and teaching

* Ability to plan, organize, prioritize work independently and meet deadlines. Applies influence based on professional skill and experience.

* Ability to work effectively with people both individually and in groups to manage conflict with the focus on improving patient outcome

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