Department/Unit:
Pediatric Trauma Program
Work Shift:
Day (United States of America)
Salary Range:
$84,783.00 - $131,414.00The Pediatric Trauma RN Quality Specialist is responsible for coordinating and advancing the Pediatric Trauma Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) Program for Albany Medical Center’s Level I Pediatric Trauma Center, which is verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
Working collaboratively with the Pediatric Trauma Program Manager and Pediatric Trauma Medical Director, the RN Quality Specialist provides leadership in the development, implementation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the PIPS Program and clinical processes that support optimal care for injured children.
The position is responsible for monitoring and promoting compliance with standards established by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT), New York State Department of Health, and Albany Medical Center.
The RN Quality Specialist serves as the clinical quality expert by integrating trauma registry data, concurrent and retrospective medical record review, multidisciplinary feedback, benchmarking data, and evidence-based practice to identify opportunities for improvement, facilitate corrective action, achieve loop closure, and improve patient outcomes.
New York RN licensure is required.
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Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.
This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:
Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.
Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York’s only academic medical center, is one of the Capital Region’s largest private employers with more than 9,000 employees. Albany Medical Center provides the highest level of patient care across disciplines, while receiving regional, national, and international recognition for high standards in patient care, education, and biomedical research.
The 766-bed Albany Medical Center offers access to the latest medical services and technological innovations and includes one of the busiest emergency rooms and trauma centers in New York, a children’s hospital and dedicated pediatric emergency room, intensive care units for adults and children, and organ transplant services. Albany Medical College graduates more than 200 medical doctors each year, as well as PAs, CRNAs, biomedical scientists, and bioethicists. Albany Medical College operates a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physician practice with more than 500 doctors.
Albany Medical Center, along with Albany Medical College, is a partner in the Albany Med Health System, the largest and only regionally governed, not-for-profit health system serving northeastern New York and western New England.
