Primary City/State: Mesa, Arizona Department Name: WIS Support Center-Hosp Work Shift: Day Job Category: Risk, Quality and Safety Great options and great opportunities. Banner Health has both the stability that comes with success and the values you can be proud to represent. If you’re looking to leverage your abilities – you belong at Banner Health. The level IV Women’s Center at Banner Desert Medical Center consists of a Labor & Delivery, High Risk Antepartum, OB Triage, OB OR’s & Postpartum Mother-Baby department that delivers professional and compassionate care to the mother’s & babies any gestation birth until discharge. Our highly skilled team includes experienced bedside registered nurses, licensed nursing assistants, scrub techs’ and IBCLC certified lactation consultants that care for the physical and emotional needs of delivering mothers and babies. There is no better time than now to be a part of our team with 14 LDR rooms, 24 Antepartum rooms, 3 surgical rooms, 4 recovery beds and 9 triage evaluation beds. As a Perinatal Quality and Safety Specialist your focus will be to strengthen preadmission education, post‑discharge follow‑up, and care coordination, particularly for scheduled Inductions of Labor (IOL) and Cesarean Sections (C/S) and for patients with high‑risk medical conditions (e.g., HTN, cardiac disease, extreme prematurity). Communication with a multidisciplinary team it will be key to drive clinical change and improve outcomes. *NRP, BLS and specialty certification in NICU or OB will be required for this position* This is a full-time DAY shift position, 5 days a week, from 8:00AM to 4:00PM. Your pay and benefits are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options, so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life. If you are a New Graduate Nurse with less than 12 months of experience, please visit the main job search page and use keywords RN New Grad to search for openings. Located on an 80-acre campus in Mesa, Arizona, Banner Desert Medical Center is one of Arizona's largest and most comprehensive hospitals and was recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of Phoenix's Best Hospitals. We provide an abundance of exceptional opportunities with more than 700 licensed beds, including over 100 dedicated to children and 76 dedicated to our NICU. Areas of excellence include high-risk pregnancy and neonatal care, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, cardiology, oncology and emergency medicine. With 33 operating rooms, we offer a full range of surgical specialties and advanced technology that includes the da Vinci Surgical System. Becker’s Hospital Review named Banner Desert Medical Center as one of the top 50 busiest Emergency departments in the country. If you aim to deliver top-tier care to the most vulnerable patients, consider joining Banner Children's Hospital at Desert in Mesa, Arizona. Within our over 200 bed, state-of-the-art facility, specially trained nurses, physicians and other clinical professionals utilize the most advanced technology - including iCare ICU monitoring and robotic surgery - to provide high quality, child-friendly, family-centered care. Our facilities feature a 76-bed NICU, a 24-bed PICU, six pediatric ORs and a 22-bed ED. We also offer dedicated pediatric rehab, radiology, oncology and hematology capabilities. With clinical diversity, exceptional training programs and a supportive culture, this is a place where you can grow in your career as you help our very special patients. POSITION SUMMARY This position supports high reliability in clinical performance through ongoing assessment of performance, prioritizes clinical improvement activities, facilitates performance improvement, and promotes successful implementation to achieve a decrease in perinatal morbidity and mortality rates. This role requires strong communication, collaboration, teamwork, and change management skills to achieve desired results across the continuum of care. This position will serve as a collaborative member of the OB leadership team who will oversee the current and future development, implementation and evaluation of site-specific obstetric patient safety and quality initiatives. Examples include but are not limited to the national perinatal patient safety bundle and the Joint Commission elements of Performance for Maternal Safety. This role will also help to implement the Premier Perinatal Improvement Collaborative (PPIC) to identify, implement, and review safety and quality within the perinatal space as designed through the PPIC standards of care. CORE FUNCTIONS 1. Facilitates the integration of maternal and neonatal quality and safety into the fabric of the organization to achieve objectives, such as Banner Annual Initiatives, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (tJC) standards of care. Facilitate the collaboration with Colorado Perinatal Car Quality Collaborative (CPCQC) on measures including but not limited to: decreasing cesarean rates in first time mothers, creating a supportive system for patients with substance use, maternal mental health, discharge planning, etc. Support the quality infrastructure, protect the use of privileged or confidential information, facilitate processes for engagement and interprofessional teamwork, identify and promote continuous learning opportunities to advance the organization/facility/entity and communicate effectively. Facilitates performance improvement projects with physicians, clinical leaders, and staff to identify improvement opportunities utilizing qualitative and quantitative data analysis, knowledge of health care operations and systems thinking. Helping to create process improvements and meeting state specific requirements for perinatal data and quality improvement action plans. 2. Utilizes expertise in obstetric and electronic fetal monitoring analysis for performance and process improvement, project management and change management methods to support operational and clinical quality initiatives. Facilitates activities related to or resulting from patient safety, harm reduction, clinical performance, peer review and compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies. This is accomplished by utilizing performance and process improvement tools and principles, applying project management methods, and using change management principles and tools. 3. Evaluates and improves healthcare processes and care transitions to advance equitable and safe maternal care. Fosters integrated team-based clinical delivery model to population-based care. Implements Clinical Practices, standardized process, that are evidence-based Population Health management strategies, encourage and contribute to a holistic approach to improvement and collaborate to improve care processes and transitions back to the community. Monitors and reports facility Clinical Practice performance that have been handed-off to Quality Improvement. 4. Supports the organizations' analytic environment to help guide data driven decision making while facilitating meetings with departments and teams to guide quality improvement initiatives and activities. Adheres to procedures for the confidentiality and integrity of data, designing, influencing, and monitoring data collection plans for Key Performance Indicators. Collaborates with process owner(s), acquiring, and integrating data from internal and external benchmarking sources. Uses statistical and visualization methods to analyze data for administrative and clinical decision making. Provides on-going assessment of performance, analyzes clinical outcome data, and identifies performance improvement opportunities or trends. Conducts and reports to stakeholders’ in-depth assessment of qualitative and quantitative data. 5. Participates in and contributes to a safe healthcare environment by creating a unit presence to connect with frontline nursing staff and physicians to promote safe practices, nurturing a just culture, and improving processes that detect, mitigate, or prevent harm. Serves as an advocate for the patient safety culture, applying safety science principles/methods, identify and report patient safety risks/events and collaborates to analyze patient safety risks and events. They facilitate teams to improve processes that are significant contributors to both serve maternal morbidity and mortality. Performs site specific needs assessments to develop, implement and monitor rapid response plans for emergencies including but not limited to obstetric hemorrhage, severe hypertension/eclampsia, emergency cesarean sections, and amniotic embolism. 6. Supports the evaluating, monitoring, and improving compliance with internal and external maternal safety bundle requirements. Participates in processes to prepare for, participate in, and follow up on Regulatory Agencies and certifications. Participates in processes to support compliance with PI standards, contributes toward continuous survey readiness activities and participates in the survey processes and findings. 7. Facilitates and support compliance with voluntary, mandatory, and contractual reporting requirement for data acquisition, analysis, reporting and process improvement. May support practitioner and nursing performance review activities as directed. 8. Engages in the healthcare quality profession with a commitment to practicing ethically, enhancing one's competencies and advancing the field by integrating ethical standards into practice, engaging in lifelong learning and participating in activities that advance the profession, such as participation in professional organizations such as the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) and achievement of certification in healthcare quality. 9. Responsibilities cross all levels of internal customers including the department, facility and system, and external customers including but not limited to the medical staff, the community, regulatory bodies and state agencies. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Requires a Bachelor’s degree in nursing. Requires a current RN license in state of practice. Requires a proficiency level typically attained with five years perinatal experience. Requires ability to perform complex statistical analysis and highly developed problem-solving skills. Requires the ability to manage programs and projects. Requires demonstrated excellence in interpersonal and written communication skills. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) certification is preferred. Master’s Degree is preferred. Experience with process improvement, regulatory/accreditation programs, data management, and analysis including graphic development and presentations is highly desirable. Additional related education and/or experience preferred. DATE APPROVED 04/27/2025 EEO Statement: EEO/Disabled/Veterans Our organization supports a drug-free work environment. Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country and the leading nonprofit provider of hospital services in all the communities we serve. 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