Perinatal Safety Specialist RN
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Job Location:
Silverdale, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
01-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Where Youll Work
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has exciting and rewarding careers with competitive salaries and benefits. We are a family of hospitals health care services and medical providers delivering compassionate care to people throughout South Puget Sound. We are part of Catholic Health Initiatives one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country.
St. Michaels Medical Center delivers approximately 2000 babies annually and is the only hospital on the Kitsap Peninsula that offers obstetrical delivery and postpartum care. We are proud to be recognized as among the countrys top performing programs designations that are only awarded to maternity care programs that maintain exceptional outcomes and deliver patient focused care.
- U.S. News & World Report recognizes St. Anne Hospital St. Francis Hospital St. Joseph Medical Center and St. Michael Medical Center as High Performing Hospitals for Maternity Care (2024-2025).
Our offerings include High-Risk Pregnancy Care Level II Special Care Nursery with a partnership with the Neonatal Practitioner Team from Seattle Childrens Hospital 24-hr OB Hospitalists Childbirth and Family Education Classes Breastfeeding support both inpatient and outpatient Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) and a volunteer doula program to provide physical and emotional support to pregnant patients both before and after childbirth.
Our mission is to deliver high-quality care that meets our patients medical needs while providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. We believe this three-part approach physical emotional and spiritual is essential to healing the whole person. Come join our team!
While youre busy impacting the healthcare industry well take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision FSA matching retirement plans paid vacation adoption assistance annual bonus eligibility and more!
Job Summary and Responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE
The Perinatal Safety Specialist is responsible for the implementation promotion support and oversight of perinatal patient safety and quality of care initiatives and programs. 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 DUTIES
- Serves as a patient safety advocate and clinical role model in perinatal nursing obstetrics.
- Implements and supposrts paitent safety and quality of care initiatives.
- Monitors Clinical Outcomes
- Faciliates interdisciplinary communication and education.
Job Requirements
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors of Science in Nursing required
- Masters degree or higher preferred
- A minimum of 5 years as a clinician in Womens Services
- A minimum of 2 years of project experience in Women and Infants Perinatal Safety
- Experience with quality improvement/process improvement techniques project/program management experience required.
Required Licensure and Certifications
- Current RN License in applicable State
- Certification in one of the following: CCRN-NEO C-EFM RN-BC MCN RN-BC-PERI RNC OB GYN NEONATAL RNC-LRN RNC-MNN RNC-NIC RNC-OB C-EFM C-ONQS
- Current American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS certification. Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Computer Skills
- Construction Experience
- Food Safety Experience
- Root cause Analysis
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- OSHA
- Child Protective Services
- EPA
- Unity
- EHS
- Manufacturing
About Company
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