"RN Quality - Cardio - Fountain Valley - PT Days"

UCI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, and the only academic health system based in Orange County. UCI Health is comprised of its main campus, UCI Medical Center, a 459-bed, acute care hospital in Orange, Calif., four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and ambulatory care centers across the region. Listed among America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years, UCI Medical Center provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to Orange County's only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. UCI Health serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County.

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Position Summary: The Quality Assurance Nurse coordinates the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of performance data relative to specified quality improvement programs within the hospital. Directs and coordinates the quality and performance improvement program in the hospital, analyzes physician peer review, management of Peer Review Committee Meetings, which includes meeting preparation, setting agendas, writing minutes, drafting applicable letters for committee chairpersons, and ensuring all follow-up has been completed. Reviews all patient mortality and patient safety events aligning with medical staff departments, maintains documents and records according to state and federal health care standards. Accurately abstracts and analyzes data for Quality projects and any other assigned patient care outcome initiative. Prepares physician quality profiles and other physician-related performance improvement projects as assigned. Facilitates assigned process improvement initiatives by using problem-solving methodology and contributes to root cause analysis.

Required Qualifications:

• Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
• Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System
• Current CA RN license
• Minimum Experience: Three to five years acute care experience
• Previous experience in patient care evaluation in either quality review, case management review, medical records, utilization review required
• Bachelors of Science in Nursing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of University and medical center organizations, policies, procedures and forms

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.