The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is seeking a Director RN Quality/Patient Safety to support its missions of health care, academics, and research. This position reports to the Chief Nursing Officer – Adult Hospitals. UMMC is in Jackson, MS and serves UMMC’s multiple sites throughout the state.
UMMC is the state’s only academic health science center and provides the only: Level 1 trauma center, Level IV NICU, Children’s Hospital, and solid organ transplantation services. UMMC is the second largest employer in Mississippi with approximately 10,000 employees. UMMC has three specialized hospitals with 722 beds, up to 125 specialties, and an annual budget of $1.6B.
Position Summary:
Direct management responsibility for the adult hospitals. The director will foster cross-functional and system-wide relationships beyond the department of quality and patient safety to be successful in a highly multidisciplinary and complex role. Using standard of care and infection control metrics, the director of quality and patient safety will lead quality teams to ensure a highly reliable, safe and data driven clinical environment. Directs, oversees, plans, coordinates and evaluates a comprehensive program to improve clinical outcomes, enhance value, and minimize patient harm.
Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Nursing. Master's degree preferred. Four (4) years of progressive clinical management experience in an adult hospital. ANCC certification in nursing or healthcare preferred.
Valid RN license.
Responsibilities:
Oversee, plan, coordinate and evaluate a comprehensive program to improve clinical outcomes, enhance value, and minimize patient harm.
Lead all aspects of the quality program, including quality measurement, external reporting, quality improvement, and high reliability.
Oversee the infection control program and the patient safety program, including incident reporting, root cause analyses, sentinel event reporting, failure mode analyses, systems design, failure modes and effects analysis, and proactive staff training and education.
Plans, designs, and ensures implementation of performance improvement initiatives; provides ongoing analysis and reporting on initiative performance.
Directs, oversees, plans, coordinates and evaluates a comprehensive program to improve clinical outcomes, enhance value, and minimize patient harm.
Develops and maintains effective relationships internally and externally with physicians, staff, CEO and CNO of adult hospital and clinics, hospital outreach, local and national organizations, agencies, professional associations, and community stakeholders.
Serves as a change agent, assisting leaders and associates to assimilate change in performance processes and practices.
Promotes and develops PI training programs that focus on enabling the labor force to achieve improvements.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center provides equal opportunity in any employment practice, education program, or education activity to all qualified persons. The Medical Center complies with all applicable laws regarding equal opportunity and affirmative action and does not unlawfully discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based upon race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or genetic information.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center, located in Jackson, is the state's only academic health science center. UMMC includes seven health science schools: medicine, nursing, dentistry, health related professions, graduate studies, population health, and pharmacy. (The School of Pharmacy is headquartered on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford.) Enrollment in all programs is more than 3,000 students.The Medical Center's three-part mission is to improve the lives of Mississippians by educating tomorrow's health care professionals, by conducting health sciences research, and by providing cutting-edge patient care. A major goal of the Medical Center is the elimination of differences in health status of Mississippians based on race, geography, income, or social status.With more than 10,000 full- and part-time employees, UMMC is one of the largest employers in Mississippi.