Quality Improvement Specialist - Crisis Team

Responsibilities

• Designs QI studies, develops criteria for evaluation, and assists assigned hospital departments with appropriate data collection and data analysis.
• Reviews and interprets patient care information, discharge summaries, operation reports, and other data sources used to assess quality care issues.
• Creates reporting documents for departments to use for tracking QI activities, trends and patterns, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Provides education on data analysis and utilization of information to clinical QI teams.
• Attends and may facilitate department QI meetings, providing "expert" input regarding problem identification and resolution, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and other patient care and accreditation activities.
• Makes ongoing clinical support to Hospital programs by reviewing and logging charts and incident reports, and recording improvement activities and results.
• Maintains daily QC, performs weekly and monthly QC, and tracks/manages completion of vendor performed periodic maintenance on all laboratory equipment.
• Oversees inventory control for supplies and reagents, monitoring supply levels, ordering, tracking vendors, receipt and verification of incoming supplies, quality release into usable inventory, and restocking work areas.
• Aids the QA manager in tracking and trending Quality Indicators, writing and executing validation plans and SOPs, deviation management, root cause analysis, carrying out CA/PA and other Quality Assurance duties as dictated by management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a health care field or equivalency.
• Two years of clinical or related hospital experience.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of "Quality Improvement" ideals with experience in a quality program (problem identification/investigation, root cause analysis, CA/PA).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated human relation and effective communication skills.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.
• Current knowledge of State and accreditation regulations.