Quality Nurse Specialist

What You'll Help With

The Quality Nurse Specialist transforms healthcare by advancing service excellence and quality through clinical, quality, educational, leadership, consultation, and research responsibilities. Key duties include:

• Leading the application of the nursing process using evidence-based practices, current research, and national standards.
• Mentoring nursing teams in conducting complex patient assessments, care planning, treatment, and discharge/transition coordination.
• Promoting interdisciplinary collaboration to address outcome-focused patient care needs.
• Developing evidence-based clinical interventions and processes to achieve targeted patient and system outcomes.
• Guiding nursing teams in leveraging system and community resources to enhance care delivery, ensure successful care transitions, and achieve optimal outcomes.
• Establishing and implementing nursing practice goals in collaboration with nursing leadership.
• Identifying opportunities for improving clinical practices and developing strategies for enhancement.
• Analyzing quality improvement data to recommend evidence-based changes impacting care delivery.
• Evaluating research findings to propose and mentor evidence-based practice changes that improve patient outcomes.
• Leading or collaborating on research and quality management initiatives to foster best practices at organizational and system levels.
• Developing and delivering educational materials tailored to the needs of patients, families, and caregivers.
• Serving as a subject matter expert for one or more quality outcome metrics.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required. Master’s degree in a healthcare-related field required (or achievable within two years).
• Experience: At least five years of nursing experience, including direct patient care, teaching, and research. Experience leading healthcare performance improvement and research projects required.
• Licensure/Certification: Registered Nurse license required. Clinical Nurse Specialist licensure required (or achievable within two years). Professional certification required (or achievable within two years).
• AHA-BLS.

Other Minimum Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated team player with a global perspective.
• Prehospital experience is beneficial.