Quality Improvement Coordinator, RN

Norfolk, VA – First shift (Days)

About the role

The Quality Improvement Coordinator provides project management and facilitation, clinical oversight, and support for the development, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of quality-improvement, medical-staff performance-improvement, and patient-safety initiatives. Responsibilities include organizing task forces, reviewing evidence-based literature and benchmarks, establishing indicators for monitoring and evaluating the quality and appropriateness of care, driving continuous improvement, achieving targeted goals, performing medical-record reviews, investigating occurrences and complaints, and tracking and trending medical-staff performance.

Requirements

• Active RN license
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
• Three or more years of current experience in quality-improvement activities preferred
• Experience in a clinical area of an acute-care facility with demonstrated leadership, teaching, and QI/PI facilitation skills preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory and accreditation-agency standards preferred

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Adoption, fertility, and surrogacy reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Paid parental and family-caregiver leave
• Emergency backup care
• Long-term, short-term disability, and critical-illness plans
• Life insurance
• 401k/403B with employer match
• Tuition assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student-debt pay-down – $10,000
• Pet insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria are met

About the facility

Sentara Leigh Hospital is a 274-bed acute-care facility in Norfolk, VA. The hospital completed a renovation in 2016 that added two new patient towers, an atrium, and a multi-story parking garage. It includes a dedicated Orthopedic Hospital offering a full continuum of orthopedic care, from preoperative services through surgery, rehabilitation, and home care. Sentara Leigh is a recognized accredited Primary Stroke Center, a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, and specializes in orthopedic and spine care, heart, vascular, maternity care, and general surgery. It is also home to the region’s only 24-hour hyperbaric oxygen program, which treats carbon-monoxide poisoning, non-healing wounds, infections with oxygen-starved tissues, airborne chemical exposures, and scuba-diving accidents.