Overview

Bring your Nursing expertise and passion for quality patient care to St. Luke's Health System in Twin Falls, Idaho!

Performance Improvement Specialist RN:

This opportunity completes clinical chart and abstraction review as a primary responsibility, with follow up calls to patients, which is also rewarding. Meeting with your Physician Champion, collaborating with other team members, and partner with other Centers of Excellence, Quality, and Infection Prevention to build relationships across our Health Care System.

This is an excellent position for the RN looking to expand their knowledge and expertise, as well as affording opportunity to participate and collaborate with other professionals and leaders helping to improve patient outcomes and increasing their own skills.

*Sign On Bonus*

Responsibilities

• Possesses and applies competent/solid working knowledge of subject matter; typically handles more complex issues and applies independent decision making; deals with long-term/bigger-picture goals and objectives; independent in leading multi-department; typically facilitates teams composed of one or more departments, service line or site based.
• Coordinates performance improvement initiatives and leads teams in performance improvement activities using PI tools and techniques and applying nursing practice, skills, concepts, and/or methodologies.
• Assists staff and leaders with data analysis to identify meaningful performance improvement opportunities, measure performance, and establish measurable performance goals.
• Collaborates with medical staff, employees, leaders, and teams to test, implement, and sustain successful improvements.
• Applies performance improvement science, tools, and techniques to moderately complex issues and problems. Escalates more complex issues to department leadership.
• Works with teams, trains and coaches medical staff, employees, and leaders in the application of improvement science to problems.
• Is actively involved in improvement efforts that impact quality and patient safety, particularly those that support system strategic initiatives.
• Participates in professional development opportunities to enhance subject matter expertise in improvement science, tools, and techniques.
• Participates in evaluation and prioritization of projects, and accepts assignments based on organization and department need.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: BSN
• Experience: 2 years additional relevant experience.
• Licenses/Certifications: RN license in Idaho.

Why St. Luke's

A strong, talented staff is at the heart of St. Luke's Health System. We are the state's largest employer with more than 15,000 employees and a medical staff of more than 1,800 physicians and advanced practice providers. We're proud of our people who deliver skilled, compassionate care every day, and are looking to add dedicated individuals who will continue this same tradition of excellence.

*St. Luke's is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.