RN-Quality Specialist

Albany Medical Center

• $84K — $131K *
Albany, NY 12208In-Person
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in healthcare quality improvement.
  • Familiarity with CQI and PDCA methodologies.
  • Experience in managing clinical registries.
  • Understanding of regulatory compliance in healthcare.
  • Strong analytical and data collection skills.

Responsibilities

  • Guide department managers in quality improvement processes.
  • Conduct concurrent chart reviews and provide feedback.
  • Perform audits and manage exception reporting.
  • Analyze data and research performance fallouts.
  • Prepare presentations on quality metrics and outcomes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and training.
  • Engagement with community health initiatives.
  • Supportive team atmosphere for collaboration.
  • Access to updated healthcare practices and webinars.
Full Job Description

Department/Unit:

Stroke Center

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$84,783.00 - $131,414.00

The Quality Specialist is responsible for providing guidance to department managers, teams and staff in the analysis, management and improvement processes and systems of the organization using continuous quality improvement (CQI) and Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) principles. The individual is responsible for helping teams ensure a quality program is maintained throughout the organization insofar as the program requires analysis, collection, reporting and use of performance improvement material and techniques. This is accomplished through training in and applying performance improvement tools and techniques, researching and presenting evidence-based practice/literature, providing benchmarking, collection or analysis support and other duties as assigned. This position has a significant impact on the program through supporting regulatory requirements, directly managing authoritative clinical registries, and participating in performance improvement initiatives.

The Stroke Quality Specialist is responsible for the following:
Patient list management and validation
Concurrent chart reviews and feedback
TNK/MER reviews and dissemination
Any auditing for regulatory purposes (we have backed off on cleviprex audits
Exception reporting/abstraction management
M&M/Datix reviews
Quality improvement
- pulling measures
- identifying fallouts
- researching fallouts
- data correction in registry, coding
- repulling measures
- Press Ganey data pull
- Vizient mortality data pull
- preparing presentation
- stroke mimic case entry
- i67 cases entry
- Managing issues/concerns that come out of QIT
- Slicer dicer data pull for all of the aneurysm procedure codes and identification of any other aneurysm repair patients that dont fall into the list
Quality committee preparation (scorecard)
DNV preparedness and survey response/work
AHA updates/webinars
Assistance with staff education
TNK Workgroup preparation
Stroke team discussions and planning
Community events (Blood pressure tables, community education)

* Ladders Estimates

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