Patient Safety & Quality Coordinator - Full Time - Days

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About this role

Plan, implement, and evaluate quality assurance activities for patient safety programs. Review medical records, track safety data, and educate medical staff, hospital staff, administration, and the board about patient safety and process improvement.

What could you bring from clinical work?

• Nurses: Your experience reviewing clinical documentation for patient safety concerns could help with medical record review and patient safety data abstraction.

Full job description from Williamson Health

Plans, implements, and evaluates quality assurance activities in a timely and accurate manner.

Position Requirements

• Licensed by the State of Tennessee.
• Graduate of a school of nursing
• At least five years of nursing experience.
• Patient Safety
• The ability to work well under pressure, to function dependently and independently and to be flexible in applying basic nursing knowledge to a variety of setting. Network computer system,
• Interdepartmental
• Requires the ability to communicate in English orally and in writing.
• Requires prolonged standing, sitting, bending, and walking for up to eight hours a day.

Key Results

• Coordinates data abstraction for Core Measures and other patient safety indicators.
• Reviews medical records. Involved in reporting required information to CMS & TJC.
• Reviews and prepares medical records for activities of medical committees.
• Collects, tracks, and trends data for medical committees to include such things as incident reports, credential profile info, and other activities.
• Participates in Medical Staff Committee Meetings.
• Involved in planning and implementing process improvement programs within the organization.
• Involved in monitoring and sustaining previous process improvement activities.
• Reports monitors, findings, & process improvement activities to leadership.
• Provides education and serves as a resource for medical staff, administration, hospital staff, and board regarding patient safety programs and process improvement.
• Participates in TJC readiness within the organization.
• Interacts professionally and communicates clearly with administrative team, department leaders, and medical staff
• Demonstrates responsibility for assigned communication.