RN - Quality Nurse Educator

Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-Time

Location
UR Medicine Home Care

Salary
$76,606 to $107,993

Description

Position Summary: The Quality Nurse Educator is responsible for collaborating with clinicians at established points in time to assure accurate training, education, and understanding of agency policies, procedures, and standards. The position serves to provide appropriate support and promote quality patient care, positive patient outcomes, and staff retention.

Responsibilities:

Qualified individuals must be capable of performing the following essential duties and responsibilities, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Collaborate with clinical staff, clinical supervisors, and managers to facilitate competence in skill development and critical thinking. Notify managers of discrepancies and inconsistencies.
• Serve as a resource to staff related to clinical assessment of patients and the need for appropriate interventions.
• Identify cases for interdisciplinary conferences for assigned team(s) and attend as indicated. Participate in recertification conferencing as needed.
• Collaborate with clinical supervisors/managers. Communicate staff performance issues to clinical manager. Participate in department and team meetings to provide education to staff on best practice, documentation, and regulatory updates.
• Perform joint home visits with staff requiring additional education and identified high risk cases to assure best clinical practice, OASIS and POC documentation competency.
• Function as clinical preceptor for new staff ensuring best practice and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Proficient use of Home Care electronic medical record and Decision Support software. Prepare, distribute and present reports related to utilization of care and clinical outcomes as needed.
• Develop and maintain education related to the following, including, but not limited to: mandatories, competencies, skills labs, and focused co-visits.
• Performs comprehensive chart audits as needed to identify performance improvement needs. Develop appropriate education and monitoring to ensure clinical excellence and quality patient care objectives are achieved.
• Monitors key agency reports to identify actual/ potential performance improvement needs.

Additional Responsibilities

• Maintains a minimal caseload of patients to facilitate and coordinate the orientation process.
• Other duties as assigned.

*Note: The above information on this job has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Qualifications:

Education & Experience - Applicants must possess the following qualifications or an equivalent combination of education and experience:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in nursing from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience: Two (2) or more years of experience working in Home Health, working with Medicare Regulations and/or experience in home care criteria and processes related to Managed Care. OASIS certification within one year of hire.

Licensure, Certification, and/or Credential Requirements

• Currently licensed as a professional Registered Nurse in the state of New York.
• Valid NY State Driver's License and reliable transportation.
• Current CPR certification or ability to obtain upon hire.

Knowledge, Skill, & Ability Requirements

• Attention/Concentration: Ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
• New Learning and Memory: Demonstrated ability to grasp new information or concepts and apply knowledge gained to carry out detailed instructions.
• Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: Skillful at identifying solutions, based on knowledge, experience and/or adaptive thinking skills.
• Independent and Sound Judgement: Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and adhere to procedures and problem solve, when encountering situations that deviate from the norm (typically with the support of flow charts or set procedures)
• Aptitude: Skillful at adapting and adjusting to unpredictable or variable changes, as they occur. Adaptable: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations. Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
• Interpersonal Relations: Possess skills to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

Technical & Systems/Equipment Proficiencies

• Microsoft Office Suite: Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel
• E-Record (electronic medical record systems)
• Office equipment, such as computers, printers, copiers, and fax machines, as well as multi-line phone systems
• Intranet/Internet

Work Environment

• Exposure to hazardous conditions/ materials is negligible.
• Travel throughout service area year around.
• Microsoft Systems
• Environmental settings will vary between patient homes, remote environment, and office.
• Lifting: Degree of physical exertion is: Light, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

Salary Range - $76,606 to $107,993

EOE Statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This position is currently accepting applications.