Quality Control and Infection Prevention Nurse - Three Rivers Health (Basin, WY)

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And you’ll want to stay at Billings Clinic for the amazing teamwork, caring atmosphere, and a culture that values kindness, safety and courage.
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About Us Billings Clinic is a community-owned, not-for-profit, Physician-led health system based in Billings with more than 4,700 employees, including over 550 physicians and non-physician providers.
Our integrated organization consists of a multi-specialty group practice and a 304-bed hospital.
Learn more about Billings Clinic (our organization, history, mission, leadership and regional locations) and how we are recognized nationally for our exceptional quality.
Your Benefits We provide a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to all permanent full-time employees (minimum of 24 hours/week), including Medical, Dental, Vision, 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer matching, Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Paid Time Off, employee wellness program, and much more.
Magnet: Commitment to Nursing Excellence Billings Clinic is proud to be recognized for nursing excellence as a Magnet®-designated organization, joining only 97 other organizations worldwide that have achieved this honor four times.
The re-designation process happens every four years.
Pre-Employment Requirements All new employees must complete several pre-employment requirements prior to starting.
Quality Control and Infection Prevention Nurse - Three Rivers Health (Basin, WY) Regional Affiliate (THREE RIVERS HEALTH) req5657 Employment Status: Full-Time (.
75 or greater) Hours per Pay Period: 1.
00 = 80 hours (Non-Exempt) Starting Wage DOE: Commensurate with experience THIS IS A COURTESY POSTING ONLY The Quality Coordinator has oversight over all quality and infection control related activities within the organization.
Directs the efforts of all the performance improvement initiatives to ensure overall compliance with all regulatory standards including federal, state, CMS, and other agencies.
The Quality Coordinator will assist the organization with continuous improvement in patient safety, preparation for regulatory surveys, regulatory reporting, quality improvement, and infection prevention projects.
This position will have working knowledge of all core measures, performance improvement initiatives, quality dashboards, and patient safety activities.
This position organizes and maintains systematic data collection, flow of information between departments, and reporting of information to required regulatory bodies.
The quality coordinator position is a working nurse position.
Selected candidate will cover one to two weekly nursing shifts on the hospital/ER department.
Essential Job Functions • Create, implement, and monitor quality and infection prevention programs; to include surveillance, data analysis, maintaining policies and procedures, and developing reports for administrators, medical staff, and the Board.
• Participates in preventative screening programs (e.
g.
, TB skin testing, influenza, hepatitis B, MMR, varicella, and other appropriate immunizations) and surveillance programs designed to identify and monitor risks to the employee’s health.
Safely administers and appropriately documents on immunizations and TB skin tests given to Three Rivers Health employees.
• Works closely with Clinical and Non-Clinical teams for improvement on key performance indicators, designs processes for new initiatives, services and other targets identified by Three Rivers Health leadership.
• Serves as an internal consultant to administration, staff, and physicians in the areas of regulatory, process improvement, performance monitoring, and statistical analysis.
• Focuses on better healthcare value and quality, including the improvement of clinical outcomes, patient experience, patient safety, costs, revenue, productivity, efficiency, employee and physician satisfaction, employee health, and process reliability.
• Coordinate and manage Core Measures reporting to required federal and state regulatory bodies.
Ensure the infection prevention and control procedures meet CMS, county and state, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and CDC regulations, standards, or guidelines.
• Analyzes all assigned areas for opportunities of improvement and makes applicable recommendations for process, system, procedure, and operational changes to improve healthcare value and quality i.
e.
: Core Measures, Hospital Acquired Conditions, etc.
• Monitors employee work-related illness and injury trends and assesses, develops, and implements strategies to prevent work-acquired injury or illness and expedite return to work.
• Performs bloodborne pathogen and communicable disease exposure assessment, treatment and follow up.
Notify the County and/or State Health Department of any reportable diseases, adhering to all internal county and state procedures.
• Organize all Quality Management and Infection Prevention meetings, maintain minutes, and make recommendations to the committee based on best practice and current regulatory standards.
• Participate in quality and infection prevent and control education of all employees during orientation and annually thereafter, including classes in infection prevention and control practices and employee health.
• Will cover one to two nurse shifts per week in the hospital/emergency department adhering to the staff registered nurse essential job functions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Observes all Federal, State, and local laws, rules, regulations and facility policies and procedures.
• Able to carry out the essential functions of this job (with or without reasonable accommodation) without posing specific, current risk of substantial harm to health and safety of self and others.
NOTE: The essential functions are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties.
Specific tasks, responsibilities and/or schedules may change as documented and outlined by the incumbent’s immediate manager.
Minimum Qualifications Education • Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited institution.
Experience • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a clinical setting, preferably a hospital setting.
2 years Quality and Infection Prevention experience preferred.
Certifications and Licenses • Current and valid registered nurse license in Wyoming or multistate compact license from another state.
• Current BLS, ACLS and PALS certification Apply Here: Three Rivers Health - Careers Billings Clinic is Montana’s largest health system serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas.
A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, the health system is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians.
Billings Clinic includes an integrated multi-specialty group practice, tertiary care hospital and trauma center, based in Billings, Montana.
Learn more at www.
billingsclinic.
com/aboutus Billings Clinic is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity.
All policies and processes are designed toward achieving fair and equitable treatment of all employees and job applicants.
Employees are encouraged to discuss any concerns they have in this regard with their immediate supervisor and/or the Vice President People Resources.
All employees and job applicants will be provided the same treatment in all aspects of the employment relationship, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, genetic information or disability.