RN Quality Assurance Specialist

Description

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

ThePerformance Improvement Department at UNC Rex Hospital is seeking an experienced nurse to join their team as a Quality Assurance Specialist. This position will lead quality assurance work with a focus on high risk areas. This would include but is not limited to:

• Clinical chart review and auditing of practice
• Trending and tracking performance
• Providing real time feedback to teammates
• Identifying key priority areas and summarizing opportunities to share with key stakeholders and executive leaders

Summary: Oversees data collection and submission programs for public reporting projects, ensuring data integrity, timeliness of submission, and that all regulatory requirements are met.

Responsibilities:
1. Provides leadership and consultation for programs of data collection and submission for public reporting. Ensures data integrity.
2. Responsible for the coordination of data flow between the hospital and vendors prior to dissemination to data warehouse and internal customers.
3. Implements and evaluates the timelines for data submission and transmission.
4. Provides budget input for assigned area. Develops and makes recommendations regarding budget record keeping for future budgetary planning and budgetary requirements. Tracks trends and developments that will impact budgetary requirements.
5. Responsible for the Physician Quality Assurance/Peer Review program.
6. Maintains and oversees the maintenance of the reporting database(s).
7. Develops or revises data procedures related to regulatory requirements.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* RN NC LIC required
* CPHQ or CPHRM preferred
Professional Experience Requirements:
* If a Bachelor's degree: requires four (4) years of related experience and/or training.
* If an Associate's degree: requires eight (8) years of related experience and/or training.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* LANGUAGE SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conforms to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. REASONING ABILITY Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Rex Performance Improvement

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$33.37 - $47.97 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.