Perinatal Safety Specialist RN

About the role

As our Perinatal Safety Specialist RN, you will lead the implementation, promotion, and oversight of perinatal patient safety and quality of care initiatives and programs, combining clinical expertise with a fervent focus on patient safety. Every day you will ensure adherence to national clinical standards, disseminate crucial safety information, facilitate educational programs, conduct safety rounds, and actively contribute to quality improvement initiatives. To be successful in this role, you will champion a culture of safety by monitoring clinical outcomes, analyzing adverse events, developing education plans, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality, compliant care for mothers and babies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, promotion, and oversight of perinatal patient safety and quality of care initiatives and programs, combining clinical expertise with a fervent focus on patient safety.
• Ensure adherence to national clinical standards.
• Disseminate crucial safety information.
• Facilitate educational programs.
• Conduct safety rounds.
• Actively contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
• Champion a culture of safety by monitoring clinical outcomes.
• Analyze adverse events.
• Develop education plans.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality, compliant care for mothers and babies.
• Ensure all care providers on Maternal Child Health adhere to national clinical standards and principles and practice of safety.
• Serve as a patient safety advocate and clinical role model in perinatal nursing obstetrics:
• Keep staff up to date on Perinatal Safety Initiatives, including education, training, implementation, policies.
• Keep abreast of changing national standards of clinical practice and the CommonSpirit Health Perinatal Safety Initiatives.
• Disseminate pertinent safety and specialty related information.
• Participate in patient safety or administrative rounding.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Minimum of 5 years as a clinician in Women’s Services, upon hire.
• Minimum of 2 years of project experience in Women and Infants Perinatal Safety.
• Experience with quality improvement/process improvement techniques.
• Project/program management experience.
• Registered Nurse: WA, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 90 Days.
• Critical Care Registered Nurse Neonatal, upon hire.
• OR Electronic Fetal Monitoring, upon hire.
• OR Maternal Child Nursing, upon hire.
• OR Perinatal Nurse, upon hire.
• OR Low Risk Neonatal Nursing, upon hire.
• OR Maternal Newborn Nursing, upon hire.
• OR Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, upon hire.
• OR Inpatient Obstetric Nursing, upon hire.
• OR Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, upon hire.

Qualifications

• Master of Science or higher degree, upon hire.

Pay

$49.78 - $82.14 /hour