Nurse Perinatal Safety Specialist

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. 

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The Perinatal Safety Specialist is responsible for the implementation, promotion, support and oversight of perinatal patient safety and quality of care initiatives and programs across the designated facilities. This specialized nursing role combines clinical expertise with a focus on patient safety to provide high-quality care and support to pregnant women and their families, adhering to departmental, institutional, regional and Federal clinical and ethical standards. The perinatal safety nurse will participate in quality improvement initiatives to enhance perinatal care processes and outcomes, contributing to a culture of safety within the healthcare facility. 

The primary responsibility of the perinatal patient safety nurse is to promote safe care for mothers and babies by keeping patient safety as a focus of all unit operations and clinical practices.

Essential Functions:

• Ensures all care providers in assigned facilities adhere to national clinical standards and principles and practice of safety. 

Serves as a patient safety advocate and clinical role model in perinatal nursing obstetrics:

• Keeps staff up to date on Perinatal Safety Initiatives, including education, training, implementation, policies.
• Keeps abreast of changing national standards of clinical practice and the CommonSpirit Health Perinatal Safety Initiatives. 
• Disseminates pertinent safety and specialty related information. 
• Participates in patient safety or administrative rounding. 
• Presents patient and staff safety concerns to appropriate clinical forums. 
• Participates in and contributes to departmental performance review activities by identifying issues and assisting with gathering and evaluating data, including corporate data entry. 
• Assists and supports the healthcare team when an adverse event or untoward outcome occurs. 
• Develops and supports the implementation of education/action plans to address events that are reported in the event reporting system. 

Implements and supports patient safety and quality of care initiatives: 

• Collaborates with clinical and administrative leadership to deliver survey results to participants. Works with clinical and administrative leadership to address themes and issues identified by the survey.
• Promotes, assists and supports competency based education. Performs periodic follow-up to confirm that clinicians have completed their education.
• Implements and supports Perinatal Safety initiatives as identified by Clinical Leadership. 

Monitors clinical outcomes:

• Abstracts, records, analyses and reports Perinatal Safety data per CommonSpirit Health guidelines ○ Assesses the documentation of charts reviewed and provides feedback to clinicians. 
• Encourages staff to identify and report adverse events and near-misses.
• Performs collaborative reviews of adverse occurrences and near-misses. Incorporates findings into educational efforts. 
• Participates in Event Investigation Analysis (EIA).
• Coordinates and evaluates briefing, debriefing and analysis of selected charts with healthcare team members. 
• Contributes to Fetal Monitor (EFM) strip reviews and provides staff with feedback on findings. 

Facilitates interdisciplinary communication and education: 

• Provides regular patient safety educational programs for staff. 
• Facilitates clinical drills for high-risk situations; tracks and reports attendance.
• Promotes the adoption of briefing and debriefing skills across disciplines 
• Fosters and promotes participation by all clinicians in educational programs and clinical drills. ○ Facilitates and supports teamwork-training programs for all department members. 
• Attends and actively contributes to Perinatal Safety network workgroups, conference calls, regional meetings and annual summit.
• Partners with hospital informatics department to ensure the EHR aligns with current perinatal safety initiatives 
• Partners with the IT department to ensure smooth integrations. 
• Ensures data/information is current with regulatory agency standards as well as best practice standards for service areas. 

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Shift: Day

Schedule: Monday-Thursday 0730-4:00 

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum of five (5) years as a clinician in Women’s services
• Experience with quality improvement/process improvement techniques and project/program management experience

Required Licensure and Certifications:

• Current Oregon State RN license
• Current AHA BLS within thirty (30) days of hire
• Current AHA NRP within ninety (90) days of hire
• Certification in one (1) of the following:
  • C-ONQS
  • CCRN-NEO
  • C-EFM
  • RN-BC 
  • MCN
  • RN-BC-PERI
  • RNC [OB, GYN, NEONATAL]
  • RNC-LRN
  • RNC-MNN
  • RNC-NIC
  • RNC-OB
  • C-EFM

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in various software applications, such as google or Microsoft.
• Knowledge and experience working within a Patient Safety 
• Strong ability to drive for results 
• Strong facilitator with demonstrated excellence in driving multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to consensus 
• Ability to manage large, complex projects 
• Ability to summarize complex information succinctly 
• Strong critical thinking 
• Skilled at facilitating geographically dispersed teams 
• Detail oriented 
• Demonstrates thought leadership, project management skills, knowledge and experience with program evaluation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or higher preferred
• Minimum of two (2) years of project experience in Women and Infants perinatal safety