Clinical Quality Nurse Manager

Position Summary: The Clinical Quality Nurse Manager is responsible for leading initiatives that ensure patient safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous quality improvement across all nursing units. This role combines clinical expertise with strategic oversight to minimize risk, enhance patient outcomes, and foster a culture of excellence in neurorehabilitation care.

Position Requirements

• Licensure/Certification/Registrations: Current Colorado RN license and current BLS for the Health Care Provider certification required. Certified Professionain Healthcare Quality (CPHQ )or similar certification preferred.
• Educational Background: BSN required; Master’s in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or related field preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 3–5 years in clinical nursing; 2+ years in quality, risk, or leadership roles. Expertise in neurorehabilitation and patient-centered care preferred.

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent organization and customer service skills.
• Ability to successfully handle multiple priorities and prioritize and schedule accordingly while meeting established deadlines.
• Must be able to successfully and effectively communicate with a variety of personnel.
• Advanced team-building, conflict resolution, and communication skills, both verbal and written required.
• Work collaboratively with other departments and physicians.
• Able to maintain a high degree of accuracy, dependability, and strong attention to detail both mechanically and technically.
• Able to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the position.
• General knowledge of extracting information from database systems preferred.
• Able to lead change and foster collaboration across disciplines.
• Possess above average problem-solving skills, judgment, and flexibility.
• Strong computer skills with Microsoft applications with advanced ability in Excel.

Essential Functions

• Develop, implement, and monitor quality improvement programs aligned with Craig Hospital’s mission and Magnet standards.
• Cookordinate and oversee hospital-wide regulatory readiness activities to ensure ongoing compliance with TJC, CMS, and CDPHE requirements.
• Identify and mitigate clinical risks through proactive assessment and corrective action planning.
• Conduct audits, tracers, and root cause analyses for adverse events, near misses, and sentinel events.
• Oversee RL Datix reporting and ensure timely follow-up on patient safety events.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for patient safety, infection control, and quality outcomes.
• Conduct purposeful and routine rounding across all shifts to observe processes, assess variation, and identify performance gaps.
• Use real-time inquiry and coaching grounded in Lean principles to identify root causes and reinforce standard work.
• Partner with frontline staff to develop and test countermeasures (A3 thinking), driving sustained improvements in quality, safety, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
• Prepare for and participate in accreditation surveys (e.g., Joint Commission, Magnet).
• Conduct environmental rounds to ensure compliance with environment of care and life safety standards.

Benefits

• Benefit Eligible Positions: At Craig Hospital, we offer a wide range of outstanding benefits that allow our employees to tailor a benefits package that meets their individual needs. Planning a family or looking forward to retirement, we have options. Our medical insurance is a self-funded plan administered by Allegiance Benefit Plans with a CIGNA network of providers offering two different comprehensive plans. We offer dental insurance through Delta Dental, and vision insurance through EyeMed. Craig offers Health Care and Dependent Care Spending Accounts. Craig also provides, and pays for both Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance plans for every benefit-eligible employee. We offer generous time off benefits to allow you to enjoy your time away from work too! Additionally, we have a 403b Retirement Plan with a generous matching contribution through Empower Retirement that you are eligible for upon hire. Do you want to go back to school? We have Tuition Assistance. Unexpected emergency? We have Employee Assistance Programs. For Craig, we believe in offering best-in-class benefits, and we prioritize benefits to support you.
• Pay Range: $90,334.40-$116,147.20/year