Regional Manager - Registered Nurse - RN Quality and Patient Safety

Job Summary

Here at Geisinger, we strive to be the best in all we do. As a nationally recognized leader in healthcare, we continuously work to deliver excellent care and excel across our organization. With a commitment to quality, safety and excellence, we're guided by our priorities to ensure a leading standard of care.

Job Duties

• You'll provide direction and leadership to Quality and Safety staff.
• You'll be responsible for functional components of the division regionally.
• You'll be responsible for infection prevention and control surveillance, analysis and reporting of trends and keeps all staff and leadership apprised.

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of Registered Nurse experience is required.
• Minimum of two (2) years of supervisory, management, or leadership experience in a healthcare setting is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) is preferred.
• Knowledge of quality improvement principles, patient safety practices, regulatory requirements, and healthcare performance metrics.
• Experience working with regulatory and accrediting agencies.
• Experience in quality management, patient safety, accreditation, risk management, or performance improvement is preferred.
• Certification in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Patient Safety, Lean, Six Sigma, or related specialty is helpful.
• Former knowledge of event reporting systems, root cause analysis, and performance improvement methodologies is helpful.

Benefits

• Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one.
• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents.
• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA).
• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly.
• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year.
• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive.
• Familly-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care. Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more.
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance.

Position Details

• Provides employee supervision support.
• Responsible for the daily operations of activities for the Division of Quality and Safety for assigned region.
• Contributes to the design and development of all Division of Quality and Safety functions in coordination with Division leadership, hospital leadership and staff.
• Provides leadership, guidance, and administrative support for Regional Quality and Safety department staff members.
• Participates in recruitment, retention, evaluation, and development of all staff with strong focus on employee engagement.
• Continually evaluates and strengthens the teamwork of the Division and promotes the strongest possible teamwork environment.
• Promotes quality efforts as a proactive undertaking.
• Ensures that the Division operates in a cost-effective manner.
• Demonstrates excellent leadership skills to facilitate problem solution, conflict resolution, process improvement, program implementation and growth.
• Participates in thorough and credible investigation of adverse patient events including the completion of Root Cause Analysis working to spread all applicable learning and improvement.
• Fosters teamwork, collaboration, and integration throughout the system.
• Collaborates with Data Metrics and Analytics leadership to design, distribute, interpret and utilize data and information aimed at improvement.
• Demonstrates professional knowledge about improvement and promotes compliance with professional standards, clinical risk management and patient safety theory, principles, guidelines, statutes and regulations.
• Remains current with compliance requirements for regulatory agencies for the reporting of incidents, serious events and other occurrences as required.
• Supports the daily operations of activities for the Infection Prevention and Control Department.
• Performs all the daily duties of a staff Infection Control Practitioner.
• Identifies, recommends and implements changes to improve infection prevention and control practices and provides formal staff education to assure the effectiveness of the Infection Control Program.
• Analyzes records and prepares reports on the incidence of targeted infections.