Registered Nurse Quality Coordinator

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off & disability coverage

Education support

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, a representative of HCA Healthcare, seeks an RN Quality Coordinator to act as a liaison for performance improvement and best-practice initiatives across hospital departments. The role emphasizes ethics, compliance, and evidence-based practice to drive patient outcomes.

The coordinator will analyze data, partner with medical staff, and educate teams to ensure continuity of care from pre-hospital to in-hospital settings, while upholding regulatory guidelines and

Qualifications

• RN licensed nurse
• Bachelor's or Associate Degree in Nursing or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Supports ethics and compliance programs per HCA policies
• Leads performance improvement initiatives to improve patient outcomes
• Analyzes throughput data and trends for targeted patient populations
• Collaborates with medical staff to ensure continuity of care and quality outcomes
• Educates hospital staff on evidence-based practice initiatives
• Represents the hospital at local/regional levels for best practices
• Ensures compliance with TJC and regulatory guidelines
• Assists with accreditation programs and staff training

Skills

ethics & compliance

data analysis

interpersonal skills

team building

Education

Bachelor's or Associate Degree in Nursing

Job description

As the nation’s largest private employer of Registered Nurses, we're honored by the trust of over 100,000 nurses and committed to supporting safe, high-quality care for which they can practice. That's why more than 80% of our hospitals earn an A or B Leapfrog safety grade, rank in the top 5% nationally for patient outcomes through Health Grades, or are recognized as Magnet or Pathway to Excellence facilities. Join us!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The RN Quality Coordinator acts as a consultant to other departments in order to achieve transformation and sustainable change in patient outcomes based on best practice. This position acts as a liaison for leading the hospitals performance improvement initiatives.

What you will do in this role:

• Supportive of the ethics and compliance programs set forth by HCA demonstrated by:
• Upholds code of conduct.
• Enforces all ethics and compliance policies as they pertain to his/her area.
• Sets an example to all staff in their daily activities. Adheres to policies on appropriate access.
• Respects patients and healthcare confidentiality.
• Educate hospital staff on evidence-based practice initiatives.
• Develops and recommends protocols and guidelines for evidence based practice initiatives.
• Oversees, analyzes, and trends data related to throughput of targeted patient populations.
• Provides data to outside agencies as required and/or other applicable hospital leaders to initiate change as appropriate, in order to improve processes and outcomes.
• Work with medical staff to assure continuity of care in designated patient populations and to ensure quality outcomes occur.
• Works closely with Emergency Medical Services to assure optimal continuity of care from pre-hospital to hospital.
• Acts as an internal hospital resource and externally in the community.
• Participates in identifying needs, planning and implementing educational programs for patients, families, community groups, and other designated healthcare facilities to improve outcomes.
• Represents the hospital at local, regional, or other applicable levels related to best practices for patients.
• Assures compliance with all TJC and other applicable regulatory agency guidelines.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills, interpersonal relationships, and team building skills.
• Assists with other duties as assigned within scope and practice of licensure.
• Assists with administering accreditation programs as assigned in collaboration with all departments, management leadership and designated hospital committees.
• Sets high standards of performance goals and works diligently to achieve them

What qualifications you will need:

• (RN) Registered Nurse
• Bachelors Degree, or Associate Degree

No Travel Required

2 years experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it.

- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

As a full-service, 420+ bed acute care hospital, HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood has provided the northeast Houston community with high-quality, cost-effective healthcare for over 25 years. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, quality care, close to home. Our Women’s Center offers high-risk OB care, a Level III NICU, and pediatric services. We have an advanced Brain & Spine Center, which includes a DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center and the Sleep Center of Excellence. Our Orthopedic Center offers total joint replacement surgery using advanced technology. Other services include innovative and customized cardiovascular services, including open heart and vascular surgery and state-of-the-art imaging and endoscopy services for more accurate diagnosis and treatment plans. We are also a Certified Level I Stroke Center and an Accredited Chest Pain Center. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

Be a part of an organization that leverages our size to make a real impact in our industry!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.