Registered Nurse RN Perinatal Quality & Safety Specialist

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The level IV Women’s Center at Banner Desert Medical Center consists of a Labor & Delivery, High Risk Antepartum, OB Triage, OB OR’s & Postpartum Mother-Baby department that delivers professional and compassionate care to the mother’s & babies any gestation birth until discharge. Our highly skilled team includes experienced bedside registered nurses, licensed nursing assistants, scrub techs’ and IBCLC certified lactation consultants that care for the physical and emotional needs of delivering mothers and babies. There is no better time than now to be a part of our team with 14 LDR rooms, 24 Antepartum rooms, 3 surgical rooms, 4 recovery beds and 9 triage evaluation beds. 

As a Perinatal Quality and Safety Specialist your focus will be to strengthen preadmission education, post‑discharge follow‑up, and care coordination, particularly for scheduled Inductions of Labor (IOL) and Cesarean Sections (C/S) and for patients with high‑risk medical conditions (e.g., HTN, cardiac disease, extreme prematurity). Communication with a multidisciplinary team it will be key to drive clinical change and improve outcomes.   

*NRP, BLS and specialty certification in NICU or OB will be required for this position* 

This is a full-time DAY shift position, 5 days a week, from 8:00AM to 4:00PM.  

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POSITION SUMMARY
This position supports high reliability in clinical performance through ongoing assessment of performance, prioritizes clinical improvement activities, facilitates performance improvement, and promotes successful implementation to achieve a decrease in perinatal morbidity and mortality rates. This role requires strong communication, collaboration, teamwork, and change management skills to achieve desired results across the continuum of care.

This position will serve as a collaborative member of the OB leadership team who will oversee the current and future development, implementation and evaluation of site-specific obstetric patient safety and quality initiatives. Examples include but are not limited to the national perinatal patient safety bundle and the Joint Commission elements of Performance for Maternal Safety. This role will also help to implement the Premier Perinatal Improvement Collaborative (PPIC) to identify, implement, and review safety and quality within the perinatal space as designed through the PPIC standards of care.

CORE FUNCTIONS
1. Facilitates the integration of maternal and neonatal quality and safety into the fabric of the organization to achieve objectives, such as Banner Annual Initiatives, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (tJC) standards of care. Facilitate the collaboration with Colorado Perinatal Car Quality Collaborative (CPCQC) on measures including but not limited to: decreasing cesarean rates in first time mothers, creating a supportive system for patients with substance use, maternal mental health, discharge planning, etc. Support the quality infrastructure, protect the use of privileged or confidential information, facilitate processes for engagement and interprofessional teamwork, identify and promote continuous learning opportunities to advance the organization/facility/entity and communicate effectively. Facilitates performance improvement projects with physicians, clinical leaders, and staff to identify improvement opportunities utilizing qualitative and quantitative data analysis, knowledge of health care operations and systems thinking. Helping to create process improvements and meeting state specific requirements for perinatal data and quality improvement action plans.

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