Quality & Safety Outcomes Coordinator

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Position Summary / Career Interest:

• Works under the direction of the Quality and Safety Manager to support various performance improvement initiatives to maintain accreditation, regulatory compliance, facility-level professional certifications, and other internal and external quality, safety, and value-based programs
• Interacts in a courteous and professional manner to foster collaborative partnerships with all necessary disciplines to identify and respond to safety risks and opportunities for improvement
• Supports data management functions including data collection, data validation, data analysis and interpretation, and timely submission of internal and publicly reported metrics
• Uses various data sources (incident reports, registries, databases) to monitor performance and develop recommendations for improving organizational performance on various quality and safety metrics
• Applies basic principles of safety science, process improvement, quality and patient safety measurement, project management, high reliability organizations, and is comfortable with PDCA cycles and A3 problem solving
• Demonstrates the ability to solve simple problems, independently make decisions, and escalate concerns appropriately
• Facilitates small-scale, interdisciplinary performance improvement groups to achieve unit, department, or metric-specific goals
• Participates in local, regional, and national employee and patient safety related educational offerings and meetings.
• Educates individuals and groups about the risks of healthcare delivery, the importance of reporting hazardous conditions, basic principles of quality improvement, and components of a safety culture
• Completes special projects as assigned
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

• High School Graduate
• Bachelors Degree Arts, Science, Nursing or equivalent (Registered Nurse license in the state of Kansas and Missouri required, if appropriate)
• 2 or more years of experience in the healthcare industry

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Multi-State - State Board of Nursing Registered Nurse license in the state of Kansas and Missouri required, if appropriate
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

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Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.  See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link asktalentacquisition@kumc.edu.

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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