RN Quality Specialist
Salary Estimate
Salary Estimate: $76752.00 - $115128.00 / year
About the role
You’ll play a critical role in ensuring patients receive timely, efficient, and compassionate care from the moment they arrive in the Emergency Department. You’ll oversee patient movement, balance department resources, and work closely with clinical and operational teams to maintain a steady flow that supports both quality care and staff efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with Emergency Department staff to ensure appropriate patient placement and efficient movement throughout all stages of care
- Coordinating EMS transports and triage operations to support timely room assignments, hand-offs, and safe transitions of care
- Prioritizing patient transfers and admissions from the Emergency Department
- Monitoring staffing levels and patient volumes to recommend optimal scheduling that maintains safe and effective workflow
- Analyzing wait times, test turnaround, and other throughput indicators to identify process improvements and promote operational efficiency
- Acting as a liaison between physicians, patients, families, and hospital departments to foster communication, teamwork, and exceptional patient experiences
Requirements
- Registered Nurse
- Associate Degree
- Basic Cardiac Life Support, or CPR must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- 5 years experience Required
- Quality experience preferred
Qualifications
The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. As a RN Quality Specialist, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring patients receive timely, efficient, and compassionate care from the moment they arrive in the Emergency Department. You’ll oversee patient movement, balance department resources, and work closely with clinical and operational teams to maintain a steady flow that supports both quality care and staff efficiency.
Skills
Your responsibilities will include: Collaborating with Emergency Department staff to ensure appropriate patient placement and efficient movement throughout all stages of care Coordinating EMS transports and triage operations to support timely room assignments, hand-offs, and safe transitions of care Partnering with the Nursing Supervisor to facilitate patient transfers and admissions from the Emergency Department Monitoring staffing levels and patient volumes to recommend optimal scheduling that maintains safe and effective workflow Analyzing wait times, test turnaround, and other throughput indicators to identify process improvements and promote operational efficiency Acting as a liaison between physicians, patients, families, and hospital departments to foster communication, teamwork, and exceptional patient experiences
Benefits
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine servicesWellbeing support, including free counseling and referral servicesTime away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absenceSavings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counselingEducation support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of NursingAdditional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Note
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
About HCA Healthcare
Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future.
About Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center, has provided quality healthcare services since 2010. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 130+ bed hospital is one of the leading community hospitals for the Fredericksburg area. The center is a part of HCA Virginia, which is the commonwealth's most comprehensive healthcare network. We offer a wide range of inpatient and outpatient medical services. The services include a 24-hour emergency room, advanced-technology operating rooms, cancer care center, advanced imaging, heart and vascular care, obstetrics and neonatal care, intensive care and psychiatric care.
About HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
Application Instructions
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN Quality Coordinator opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing, apply today!