Quality Specialist

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

Leads quality and clinical improvement initiatives, in partnership with assigned clinical teams. Works collaboratively with leaders, clinicians and other staff in developing and implementing strategies to identify and reduce risks, improve quality and safety, and meet regulatory requirements using various data sources.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Identifies opportunities to standardize care, reduce variation, and improve clinical outcomes.
• Facilitates system-wide clinical programs with process improvement goals and strategies in collaboration with continuous improvement (CI). Integrates standards of care/clinical guidelines/protocols in collaboration with multidisciplinary groups and evaluates for outcomes improvement.
• Provides education regarding clinical data as it pertains to clinical outcomes, resource utilization, and clinical efficiency. Presents educational programs and assists in the development of educational materials related to clinical areas of expertise/improvement efforts.
• Serves as a clinical and systems resource. Maintains awareness and knowledge of best practice strategies and disseminates information to relevant groups.
• Works collaboratively to develop and validate appropriate scorecards/reports that drive continuous improvement and provide patient value.
• Assists with evaluation, potential development, and maintenance of databases necessary for optimum clinical outcomes improvement.
• Develops annual outcomes report for designated clinical programs and provides a regular cadence of outcomes reporting to the clinical programs, ministry leadership, and other designated groups.
• Partners with leadership to optimize the quality and patient safety culture. Assists with ambulatory, post-acute and regional quality initiatives, as applicable.
• Conducts leading practice research on clinical outcomes improvement and safety best practices. Participates in activities supportive of ongoing improvement of medical staff quality.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited school of professional nursing

EXPERIENCE

• Six years’ clinical experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 
 
State of Work Location: Illinois 

•     Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) 

     
State of Work Location: Missouri 

•     Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State  
•     Or 
•     Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration