RN - Quality Assurance

About the role

The Quality Assurance RN is responsible for facilitating and leading clinical improvement strategies and initiatives to achieve clinical excellence. The role skillfully combines a primary focus on clinical knowledge with an emphasis on performance improvement. This position requires knowledge and experience related to clinical practice with the ability to coach/teach colleagues toward success. Responsible for utilizing data sets and information to identify opportunity and successfully mobilize clinical and other resources to achieve improvements. Directs multi-disciplinary workgroups, using proven performance improvement, change acceleration and facilitation methodologies to ensure clinical and/or operational effectiveness and excellence, quality outcomes, patient safety, and positively impact patient/family satisfaction. Directs and coordinates auditing activity required to support clinical quality. This position performs all duties in a manner that promotes team concepts and reflects the Providence Health & Services mission, philosophy, and core values of respect, compassion, justice, excellence, and stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating and leading clinical improvement strategies and initiatives to achieve clinical excellence.
• Combining a primary focus on clinical knowledge with an emphasis on performance improvement.
• Utilizing data sets and information to identify opportunities and mobilize clinical and other resources to achieve improvements.
• Directing multi-disciplinary workgroups using proven performance improvement, change acceleration, and facilitation methodologies to ensure clinical and/or operational effectiveness, excellence, quality outcomes, patient safety, and positive patient/family satisfaction.
• Directing and coordinating auditing activity required to support clinical quality.
• Performing all duties in a manner that promotes team concepts and reflects the Providence Health & Services mission, philosophy, and core values of respect, compassion, justice, excellence, and stewardship.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Washington Registered Nurse License upon hire OR Alaska Registered Nurse License upon hire OR California Registered Nurse License upon hire OR Montana Registered Nurse License upon hire OR Oregon Registered Nurse License upon hire OR Texas Registered Nurse License upon hire OR New Mexico Registered Nurse License upon hire

Qualifications

• Recent RN experience in an inpatient acute care hospital setting
• 1 year of progressive participation in, and responsibility for, process improvement or healthcare quality management efforts
• 1 year of experience with statistical analysis
• 1 year of experience leading multi-disciplinary work groups
• 1 year of experience with root-cause analysis and safety event review processes
• 1 year of experience with clinical effectiveness and quality
• 1 year of experience with service excellence and patient advocacy models
• 1 year of project management experience

Benefits

Providence offers a best-in-class benefits package designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. Benefits include a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well‑being resources, and much more.

Pay

The base pay range for this position is $44.61 – $69.26 per hour. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on‑call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Schedule

Full‑time, day shift.