RN Nurse Analyst

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans is seeking a nurse to lead patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within our safety and quality teams. You will train leaders, educate frontline staff, review incident reports, and implement evidence-based practices to reduce harm.

The role coordinates with clinical teams, EPIC system workflows, and regulatory standards from CMS, The Joint Commission, DHH, and the state to ensure ongoing compliance and high‑quality patient care.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in Healthcare, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Medical Records, Clinical Care, Revenue Integrity or Data Analysis required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates reduction of preventable harm by coordinating safety and quality teams.
• Trains and educates leaders, managers and frontline staff on patient safety.
• Implements evidence-based practices to reduce harm in coordination with clinical teams.
• Reviews incident reports and follows up as needed.
• Develops performance improvement project charters, timelines and deliverables.
• Assists with development of performance improvement indicators and compliance plans.
• Acts as an education resource to healthcare workers and medical staff.
• Facilitates multidisciplinary teams to reduce hospital acquired conditions.
• Assists in developing/revising clinical policies and job descriptions and competencies.
• Works with EPIC team to ensure standard compliance and complete medical records.
• Assists with risk assessments and action plans.
• Coordinates compliance with CMS, TJC, DHH and state requirements.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Quality improvement

Patient safety

Data analysis

Regulatory knowledge

Tools

EPIC

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

GENERAL DUTIES

• Patient Safety: Facilitates the reduction of preventable harm by facilitating safety and quality teams. Trains and educates leaders, managers and frontline staff on patient safety. Implements evidenced based practices to reduce harm in coordination with clinical teams. Reviews incident reports and follows-up as needed.
• Quality Improvement: Develops performance improvement project charters, timelines, PDSAs and key deliverables. Assists with development of performance improvement indicators and serves as a resource for plans to improve compliance of the identified indicators. Acts as an education resource to healthcare workers and medical staff. Facilitates multidisciplinary teams to reduce the incidence of hospital acquired conditions.
• Quality/Safety reviews: Performs data abstraction for quality, drug review, adverse drug reactions, mortality, HACs, outpatient medical record review(as assigned) and all other approved indicators. Prepares summaries for presentation to physician reviewer, enters data into computer for statistical compilation, information retrieval and tracking.
• Clinical Resources: Assists in developing/revision of clinical policies and serves as a resource in ongoing development of job descriptions and competencies. Works with the EPIC Team to ensure standard compliance and complete medical records.
• Risk Management: Assists with risk assessments by obtaining witness statements, chart review, investigation and action plans.
• Regulatory Standard Compliance: Coordinates compliance with all hospital departments for the regulatory agencies such as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), The Joint Commission (TJC), Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), The State of Louisiana, etc. Performs ongoing review of regulatory standards and provides education related to standards. Communicates pertinent information on current requirements of the Joint Commission and other accrediting, licensing and reviewing bodies to facilitate preparation for surveys performed by external regulatory agencies.

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

• 2 years of experience in Healthcare, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Medical Records, Clinical Care, Revenue Integrity or Data Analysis required

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Licensed Registered Nurse through the Louisiana State Board of Nursing