Job description

Job Title: Quality Nurse Consultant - Medical/Surgical

Job Type: Onsite

Duration: Permanent

Location: CA

Job Position: The role coordinates AR&L, patient safety, and risk management for a medical center. Provides clinical, educational, consulting, and coordinating support to assigned areas using nursing skills for indirect patient care services.

License:

• Registered Nurse License (California)
• BLS by AHA
• Covid vaccine

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.
• Organizes and coordinates 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 the implementation of evidence-based guidelines 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.
• Analyzes risk management/patient safety principles and provides recommendations for their incorporation.
• Provides support services to appropriate medical center staff in implementing risk management principles into credentialing processes.
• Participates in special projects such as statistical reports for state, federal, and local agencies.
• Applies appropriate performance improvement methodology to address improvement opportunities.
• May support infection prevention and control activities.
• Supports maintenance of IC records and policy/procedure manual reviews and revisions.
• Supports the medical center’s continuous survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards.

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

Bachelor’s degree in nursing, business administration, economics, health care administration, operation research, public health administration, or another related field.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $168,000.00 - $172,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Travel reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Critical & Intensive Care
• Medical-Surgical

Physical setting:

• Hospital

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Application Question(s):

• Are you wiiling to relocate to Oakland, CA or Los Angeles for this job role?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Quality improvement: 1 year (Required)
• acute care: 2 years (Preferred)
• medical surgical: 2 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN License (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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