Position Summary: Participates in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical transformation activities for an assigned service or population. In collaboration with the clinical team and Medical Staff, this position is responsible for the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical outcomes and processes supporting patient care.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Nursing Quality Improvement
- Collaborates in the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical services and quality initiatives.
- Supports key strategies to drive quality improvement to meet strategic and clinical excellence objectives
- Facilitates interdisciplinary, collaborative activities to support the development, deployment and monitoring of safety and quality improvement initiatives.
- Gathers, analyzes and reports data related to performance and achievement of project objectives and timelines. Tracks issues and works to improve processes, efficiency and compliance of best practice standards including electronic documentation standards.
- In collaboration with key stakeholders, supports and facilitates the standardization of best practices to promote high reliability.
Data collection
- Accurate and timely quality data submission to external databases for benchmarking reporting
- Generate performance improvement reports from quality databases, including monthly reports for distribution/analysis of findings as well as ad hoc reports
- Summarize, analyze, and present key data findings to organizational leaders and key stake holders to drive improvement in quality priorities and nurse-sensitive quality indicator performance.
Policies
- Develop, implement, evaluate and revise nursing care policies, procedures, and guidelines aligned with best practices and quality initiatives.
Other
- Serves on specialty and/or unit committees, councils, and teams, as well as professional organizations.
- Facilitates compliance with Joint Commission standards and regulations of other appropriate regulatory agencies.
- Maintain current knowledge of industry standards by proactively assessing changes in healthcare regulation, accreditation standards and operational best practices through available resources and professional development opportunities to serve as educational resource to the organization
- Handles sensitive, confidential information responsibly
- Exhibits effective verbal and written communication skills
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Requirements:
· Registered Nurse, BSN required, MSN preferred
· Minimum 2 years clinical quality experience
. CPHQ certification preferred
Work Shift Details:
Days - First Shift, Monday - FridayDays - On site
Department:
QUALITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENTBenefits for YouAt Silver Cross Hospital, we care about your health and well-being and that is why we work hard to provide quality and affordable benefit options for you and your eligible family members.
Silver Cross Hospital and Silver Cross Medical Groups offer a comprehensive benefit package available for Full-time and Part-time employees which includes:
· Medical, Dental and Vision plans
· Life Insurance
· Flexible Spending Account
· Other voluntary benefit plans
· PTO and Sick time
· 401(k) plan with a match
· Wellness program
· Tuition Reimbursement
Registry employees who meet eligibility may participate in our 401(k) Savings plan with a potential match. However, registry employees are ineligible for Health and Welfare benefits.
The final pay rate offered may be more than the posted range based on several factors including but not limited to: licensure, certifications, work experience, education, knowledge, demonstrated abilities, internal equity, market data, and more.
The expected pay for this position is listed below:
$35.76 - $45.60Skills Required
- Registered Nurse, BSN
- Minimum 2 years clinical quality experience
- CPHQ certification
What We Do
Silver Cross Hospital is an independent, not-for-profit healthcare provider serving Will County and southwest suburban communities since 1895. We have been recognized as a 100 Top Hospitals National Award winner 11 times, honored with an “A” Hospital Safety Grade by The Leapfrog Group 19 times, and are rated 5 Stars by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2024, Healthgrades ranked Silver Cross #1 in Illinois for surgical care. With over 4,500 employees, physicians and volunteers, Silver Cross operates a 348-bed acute care hospital and 12 satellite facilities providing outpatient services and physician offices. We also operate a freestanding Emergency Department in Homer Glen, open 24/7, and 2 Urgent Care Centers, one in New Lenox on our main campus, and one in Mokena. We also operate Will County's ONLY Level III Perinatal Center with a 24-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through our collaboration with Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. What's more, Silver Cross partners with Chicago's leading academic medical centers to bring our community world-class care close to home, including University of Chicago Medicine, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and Rush University System for Health. Additionally, we partner with CTVSA (Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgical Associates) for our nationally ranked heart program, as well as US HealthVest through the 100-bed Silver Oaks Behavioral Hospital, located directly across from our main hospital campus. To learn more about Silver Cross Hospital, visit silvercross.org.
