Quality Assurance Nurse at Reddington Hospital

Job description

• A Registered Quality Assurance Nurse is a nursing professional who focuses on evaluating and improving the quality of patient care in a healthcare setting. Duties include:
• Interprets and implements quality assurance standards in hospital to ensure quality care to patients.
• Reviews quality assurance standards, studies existing hospital policies and procedures.
• Interviews hospital personnel and patients to evaluate effectiveness of quality assurance program.
• Writes quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Reviews and evaluates patients' medical records, applying quality assurance criteria.
• Selects specific topics for review, such as problem procedures, drugs, high volume cases, high risk cases, or other factors.
• Compiles statistical data and writes narrative reports summarizing quality assurance findings.
• Review patient records, applying utilization review criteria, to determine need for admission and continued stay in hospital.
• Oversee risk management procedures
• Document quality assurance activities, such as internal audits
• Analyze customer grievances and other non-compliance issues
• Gather and organize statistical quality data
• Inspect data to detect areas for improvement
• Elaborate, recommend and oversee improvement actions
• Report on results of quality activities
• Must be able to observe and evaluate existing practices and policies, makes recommendation for change when necessary.
• Document all activities, findings and recommendations and reports them to the Chief compliance Officer and other health care team.
• Develop policies that describes actions following specific circumstances.
• Any other activities assigned by the Quality Assurance Manager and management.
• Candidate must be a trained, registered and licensed with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN).