Job Title: Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist / RN
Location: Indianapolis, IN 46204
Duration: 2+ months to Long term
Shift Hours: Standard shift
Pay Rate Range: $55/hr
Job Summary:
- This position serves in a dual role involving direct in person coordination with hospital facilities to enhance both National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) automated hospital reporting along with pediatric readiness capabilities within hospital networks and facilities located in Indiana.
- This position promotes best practices and quality improvement processes in both hospital reporting importance for the automation transition and pediatric preparedness programs/initiatives.
- The position serves in coordinating the development of statewide guidelines, aiding hospitals into an automated platform for hospital reporting, educational modules, and quality improvement resources/tools utilizing federal and national recommendations/guidance, evidence-based guidelines and best practices specific to the delivery of hospital facility key elements reporting along with pediatric emergency care.
- The position also serves as a resource and technical advisor to, pre-hospital agencies, hospitals, other healthcare practitioners as well as non-health care entities within our state to ensure hospital facility needs are adequately addressed.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Assist with development and launching of a state/jurisdiction capacity system that includes near-time bed capacity counts for the state's/jurisdiction's acute care hospitals, including critical access hospitals.
- Must be able to manage user account and security parameters for access to the web-based dashboard to coordinate daily, surge, and crisis needs.
- Help coordinate emergency department data, organized per NHSN definitions to Hospital Capacity Data Store at least twice per day on an ongoing basis. Data would include emergency department (ED) census, ED Admitted census (boarding) and ED pressure indicator by count of all patients in the ED that have a physician assigned.
- Create possible items listed below to support the states'/jurisdiction's ongoing participation in the NHSN Connectivity Initiative, such as:
- Develop communications and training materials for onboarding identified stakeholders and hospital users.
- Provide training and onboarding services to participating hospitals and stakeholders.
- Work with the state's/jurisdiction's hospitals to collect necessary information for dashboard development and implementation.
- Provide a common framework of data elements to include on the dashboard and in the data feed.
- Facilitate the gathering and engagement of hospitals' technical staff to work on automated and secured data feeds per specifications supported by the web-based application.
- Assist the state/jurisdiction to advise on shared governance model(s) for discussions and decision-making to support this work.
- Testing and validation of data feeds; and draft progress milestone for inclusion in progress report/lessons learned.
Computation Ability:
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Travel:
- In-state travel will be required as needed and out of state overnight may be necessary.
- Expect ~85% of work week traveling around state of Indiana
Computer Skills:
- Microsoft Teams, Power BI, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Basic Keyboarding Skills, Web based meeting and learning management systems, REDCap.
Education and Work Experience:
- Registered Nurse (RN), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or other similar certification combined with Hospital experience, preferred
- Bachelor's degree, supplemented with 3-5 years of previous hospital and quality improvement job-related experience.
- Ideal candidate also has either CPHQ or Lean Six Sigma.
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