Clinical Quality Specialist RN LifeLine Critical Care Transport

Company: UCHealth
Location: Arvada
Posted on: October 15, 2020

Job Description:

Measures, analyzes, and facilitates improvement in clinical performance and outcomes.

Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion

LifeLine Critical Care Trans

Work Schedule: Full Time Days

1.0 FTE (80 hrs bi-weekly)

Responsibilities:

This position will work in conjunction with the LifeLineClinical Educator/Chief Flight Nurse, LifeLine Communications Center, LifeLineIFT, and LifeLine Safety to coordinate the quality and regulatory requirementsfor the State, GAMUT, CAMTS, and patient quality initiatives. The primary objective is to ensure thepatients are receiving the appropriate interventions. This is done through in-services and enhancededucation of various clinicians, creation of mechanisms to increaseaccountability, collection of data, analysis of aggregate data, andfacilitation of communications throughout the LifeLine program.

Job Duties:

· Serves as a liaison and collaborator with alldepartments involved in LifeLine patient transports.

· Daily monitoring of clinical and nonclinicalmetrics to meet regulatory requirements and patient safety initiatives.

· Education, e.g. in-service presentation, toeducate staff on clinical and nonclinical requirements.

· Collection of patient data to monitor outcomesand optimize compliance with clinical and nonclinical requirements.

· Identifies key clinical quality and patientsafety measures. Promotes the use ofappropriate measures for clinical services. Uses the results of quality improvement activities to initiate changesin patient care practices and in the healthcare delivery system.

· Prioritizes and executes performance improvementplans related to clinical performance in collaboration with the Chief FlightNurse and Base Manager.

· Performs documentation and process analysis,identifies clinical best practices and works with stakeholders to improveprocesses.

· Assist with the development, piloting, use, andvalidation of data collection methodologies.

· Serves as a resource for developing indicatorsfor studies and projects.

Requirements:

Graduate of an accredited Registered/Professional Nursing program .

Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Nursing.

State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).

2 years of relevant nursing experience and 2 years of relevant quality improvement experience.

BLS through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer with card in-hand before start date. BLS or CPR card must be good through sixty days of hire. All life support certification cards must be issued by either the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer. (American Red Cross for the Professional Rescuer is only good upon hire and all renewals will need to be through an American Heart Association sanctioned course.)

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