NURSING QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY SPECIALIST at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center – Tampa, Florida

We are currently seeking a Nursing Quality & Patient Safety Specialist:

The Nursing Quality & Patient Safety Specialist will be responsible for supporting the efforts of the Department of

Nursing to optimize patient safety and quality in all aspects of nursing care delivery. This will be position will support the

Nursing Department in identifying safety and quality opportunities within the nursing departments. The Specialist will

act as a subject expert consultant in best practices for performance improvement methodology as well as regulatory

guidance. This position will gather data via chart audits, safety reports, and informatics reports and formulate data and

clinical information into a meaningful presentable fashion for appropriate Nursing Committees/Councils and nursing

leadership to make informed decisions based on accurate information. This position will be responsible for working with

the nursing staff and nursing leadership to establish meaningful peer review audits for performance evaluation. This

Nursing Quality & Patient Safety Specialist will function as the liaison between the nursing committees/councils, nursing

performance improvement teams and patient safety initiatives in order to keep the nursing leadership informed and

loop closure. This position will serve on Nursing committees related to quality and safety and work along with Risk

Management to ensure processes are in place and monitored to support the success of change. In addition, this position

will lead performance improvement teams that nursing deems important to improve the process and care of the

patients. This position requires excellent communication skills, clinical skills, critical thinking, understanding of the

nursing process, project management skills, regulatory, patient safety, data analysis, team building, and change

leadership skills.

EDUCATION:

Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree of Nursing

Preferred: Masters of Nursing or related field.

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION: Current RN License

Preferred: BLS

Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality

(CPHQ) Specialty Certification (i.e. OCN, CCRN, CNOR)

Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS)

Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Clinical Nurse Leader

Minimum Required Experience: Registered Nurse Clinical Experience 5 Years

Experience with leading evidence-based practice or performance improvement initiatives at the unit level

Developing and implementing action plans.

Essential Function:

Develop and maintain an expertise in the field of data analysis, performance improvement, peer review, nursing policies

and standards, and related Joint Commission standards, including Provision of Patient Care and Waived Testing

Job Specific Duties:

Monitor literature and other sources related to nursing performance improvement and patient safety to identify

best practices and measurement

Active involvement in professional societies

Educate nurses about the principles of performance improvement and management of data

Educate nurses about the use of performance improvement data in a Fair and Just Culture

Monitor changes in and become an expert resource for the Joint Commission Provision of Patient Care and Waived

Testing standards

Essential Function:

Coordinate the identification, selection, monitoring of nursing specific quality and patient safety indicators

Job Specific Duties:

Assist nursing in selection and evaluation of quality and safety monitors

Determine best sources for pertinent monitors and coordinate their collection

Monitor NDNQI and Press Ganey nursing indicator results

Assist with the administration, monitoring and reporting of Nursing Satisfaction Survey