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The Quality Review Specialist-RN provides consultative services regarding quality assessment and trends to medical staff and to hospital ancillary department personnel. In this role, the employee will perform comprehensive retrospective reviews in a timely manner utilizing criteria developed and approved by the medical staff, hospital, and regulatory agents.

Minimum Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Years of Experience: 4 Years of clinical or hospital experience; 2 Years of experience in quality or utilization review.
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Registered Nurse (RN)
Required Training: None.

• Utilizes in-depth knowledge of clinical workflows, policies and procedures, patient care / clinical business processes, regulatory requirements, and best practices to:    
  • Risk Management-
    • Perform daily review of new occurrence reports.
    • Identify occurrences that require additional follow-up and reports these to the Director or designee in a timely manner.
    • Ensure that occurrences are categorized correctly and all fields completed and correct. Verifies data accuracy with medical record if necessary.
    • Ensure that occurrence reports are forwarded to all appropriate persons.
    • Access other sources of data as needed for investigation and follow up.
    • Serves as System Administrator for the occurrence reporting system.
    • Primary liaison between Risk Management, Information Services, and system users.
    • Manages access to the occurrence reporting system.
    • Adds new locations and new users and provides new-user training. Assigns passwords. Removes users as needed.
    • Provides new user training and ongoing user support, paying keen attention to user needs and opportunities to offer solutions and modify processes to improve efficiencies. 
    • Coordinates with vendor and Information Services to troubleshoot system as needed.                                             
  • Center for Best Practice & PN Quality-        
    • Assists with development, implementation, and evaluation of the hospital's overall quality improvement program.
    • Assist with coordination, preparation, and maintenance of performance improvement assessment and improvement activities.
    • Responsible for data integrity and follows well defined processes for maintaining data integrity as well as manage assigned database.
    • Assists in evaluation, analysis, maintenance and development of system functionality of the EHR to meet clinical objectives including participating in project plan development/tracking and workflow analysis.

• Provides accurate and timely routine statistical analyses and reports to designated parties. Identifies need for new reports and develops and creates reports. Generates user-friendly reports from other databases.
• Evaluates and analyzes data for trends, identifies areas of concern, and uses data display techniques to provide reports for various meetings and hospital committees.
• Prepares materials for meetings and assists with maintenance of performance improvement project records.
• Represents department on committees / teams as assigned. 
• Participates and supports department goals, objectives and timelines, working with a sense of urgency and accuracy to ensure effective implementation. Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously and demonstrates flexibility in role and a willingness to help others.
• Attains an annual minimum of 12 hours of continuing education in topics related to role.
• May prepare materials for meetings and assists with maintenance of performance improvement project records.
• May represent department on committees / teams as assigned.
• Risk Management:
  • Resolves problems and recommends solutions through research, inquiry, and data analysis, maintaining support call logs and tracking of issues.
  • Compiles and maintains accurate statistics pertaining to occurrence data.            
  • Participates in and contributes to patient safety / risk reduction activities, including:
    • Participates in and contributes to investigations of serious unanticipated events and "close-calls".    
    • Participates in and contributes to development, implementation and evaluation of corrective action plans.
    • Supports a culture of safety by encouraging staff to speak up and report safety and quality issues.
• Center for Best Practice & PN Quality:
  • Identifies opportunities for improvement and coordinates/participates in the development and implementation of action plans to make improvements- recommends changes to systems/processes that do not contribute to desired outcomes.
  • Works collaboratively and communicates effectively with administration, IS, and clinical care teams through participation in the planning, development, and evaluation and maintenance of the Clinical Information system.    
  • Audits database contents for accuracy and validity.    
  • Acts as a resource person in quality assessment activities with hospital departments and committees. 
  • Works directly with hospital personnel to provide assistance and guidance in establishing criteria, reviewing medical records, etc.                        
  • Requires efficient use of numerous software products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Performs all other duties as assigned.