Registered Nurse (RN) - Quality and Safety Specialist

Quality & Safety Specialist - RN

This position is onsite with the opportunity to occasionally work remotely (1 day/week). Primarily a Monday-Friday schedule.

Acts as an internal consultant to further value through quality assurance and innovation of systems and processes.

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000.
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan.
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
• Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art.
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model.
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock's Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We recognize that "quality of life" means different things to different people, but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary, and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the "Upper Valley" of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth Health Children's; member hospitals, and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn more and apply:

Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the maintenance of structures and processes which support improvement and patient safety, enable the collection, storage, and analysis of improvement and safety data, and enable compliance with external regulatory agency requirements.
• Uses clinical knowledge in formal and informal consultation with individual staff, clinicians and managers, to address clinical quality and safety concerns.
• Participates in clinical adverse event task groups.
• Participates in the development of strategies to perform in-depth data collection and data & process analyses to identify opportunities for improvement and provide input into institutional decision making and goal setting.
• Supports value improvement and patient safety across the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) system through the application of modern improvement thinking to all assigned initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing with 4 years of clinical practice experience required.
• Master's degree in a business or healthcare-related field with prior health systems experience preferred.
• Certification in modern improvement methodology (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) and/or Professional Project Management and/or Healthcare Quality preferred.
• Prior experience applying modern improvement methodology to lead and manage change preferred.
• Demonstrated excellence in facilitation, teaching, and interpersonal skills as well as experience in the concepts and applications of continuous improvement are essential.

Required Licensure/Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse with NH eligibility