The Perinatal Patient Safety and Quality Nurse is responsible for planning, implementing, directing, and evaluating patient safety and quality improvement to ensure the highest level of performance is achieved.
This role will support and collaborate with the CNO, Perinatal Manager, and Quality Director. Knowledge of the perinatal national standards and guidelines and the principles and practice of safety science is essential. Communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with leadership and staff members to promote teamwork among all care providers are critical to role success and the success of the perinatal safety program initiatives.
Respond to quality/patient safety issues, events, significant care issues and trends. Assists with assessing root cause analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and process improvement, while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Facilitates the provision of clinically competent care by staff/team through education, role modeling, teambuilding, and quality monitoring.
Assists with Idaho and Oregon Aim data collection and entry and any other appropriate data collection processes.
Performs system level assessments to identify variables that influence nursing practice and outcomes. Determines nursing practice and system interventions that will promote patient, family and community safety.
Provides leadership in promoting interdisciplinary collaboration to implement outcome-focused patient care programs meeting the clinical needs of patients, families, populations and communities.
Works with Maternal and Neonatal Managers, and team to develop and analyze data for administrative and clinical decision-making and regulatory requirements.
Fosters an interdisciplinary approach to quality improvement, evidence-based practice, research, and translation of research into practice.
Monitors trend reports for Perinatal PI events and identifies opportunities to improve patient care or processes.
Ability to develop policies and procedures, performance dashboards and scorecards, and other tools related to performance and quality metrics.
Provides consultation to staff nurses, medical staff and interdisciplinary colleagues.
Uses effective strategies for changing clinician and team behavior to encourage the adoption of evidence-based practices and innovations in care delivery.
Facilitates interdisciplinary teams to address ethical concerns, risks or considerations, benefits, and patient care outcomes.
Collaboration with OB Clinical Educator to meet the following needs:
Fosters and promotes participation by all clinicians in education programs and clinical drills/simulations to meet TJC requirements.
Promote the adoption of briefing and debriefing skills across disciplines.
Computer skills: strong working knowledge of MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.