RN - Quality Comp Edu

Position Summary: The Quality and Compliance Nurse participates in all efforts to develop and maintain quality and compliance standards within our Community Hospice, Inpatient Hospice, Palliative Care, and Home Visit Physician programs.

Job Responsibilities for a RN-Quality Compliance & Education includes:

Essential Functions

1. Maintains a knowledge and understanding of compliance standards of the regulatory agencies (CMS, CDC, JCAHO, and DOH, etc.)

2. Performs audits and reports on quality of care, level of compliance to regulation, and survey readiness of both the community programs and inpatient centers; including patient chart audits

3. Communicates with pharmacy and supports clinical staff with Home Infusion process to ensure quality of care and compliance

4. Supports collection of patient reported outcome measures, analysis of measures, and development of process improvement plans

5. Ensures compliance with infection control regulations and performs, monitors and reports infection control and surveillance activities as back up to Infection Control Nurse

6. Assists with regulatory compliance and audits

7. Assists with development of education programs and education resource systems

8. Assists in development and implementation of clinical staff orientation, education and competency program

9. Supports the Preceptor Program for new clinical employees

10. Reviews, revises and assists with development of new policies, procedures and protocols

11. Other duties as assigned

Education or Degree Required: RN, B.S.N. preferred

License/Certification Required: NJ RN License; OCN, CRNH preferred; RN-BC in Nursing Professional Development preferred

Related Experience and Training Required: Five years medical/surgical experience, one year palliative care/hospice and /or three years oncology experience preferred, presentation/teaching experience preferred

Join Our Team

Samaritan is a not-for-profit healthcare provider of life-enhancing care that includes primary care at home, palliative medicine, hospice care, and grief support. We are proud to be here for people, not for profit.

In return for your expertise, you'll enjoy excellent training, generous paid time off, and industry-leading benefits. Be a part of our great team! Apply today!

• Highly competitive salary.
• Generous paid time off.
• Excellent benefits package, supplemented with concierge services, including but not limited to vision, dental, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, travel reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, multiple discount programs.
• Opportunity to work from home.
• Career opportunities, promotional opportunities and work schedule flexibility.
• Holidays.
• 403 (b) and employer match.
• Annual employee milestone awards ceremony and recognition activities including peer recognition, and annual department celebrations.
• Samaritan is committed to inclusion, diversity, & access through board and staff committees and according to our employee surveys, employees are highly engaged, rate our management team as highly effective, and embrace our welcoming culture as demonstrated by the number of tenured employees.
• Training and professional development opportunities.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Performance reviews, merit raises, and bonus opportunities.
• Conveniently-located administrative office with amenities such as an updated kitchen, think tank for brainstorming, quiet meditation room, private mother's room, and more.
• Opportunity to work for South Jersey’s first and largest hospice organization.

Providing Superior Care

Samaritan has been recognized by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) as a “Superior Performer” for achieving an overall caregiver and family satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20% of all eligible SHP clients for the 2019 calendar year.

The annual SHPBest™ award program was created to acknowledge hospice providers that consistently provide high quality service to families and caregivers of patients receiving hospice care.

Not-for-Profit Provider

Our compassionate healthcare experts provide many options for people living with chronic or serious illness:

• primary care,
• supportive palliative medical care,
• hospice care,
• grief support,
• and two inpatient hospice centers.

Samaritan helps patients and their families live their best life every day and has been proudly serving the South Jersey community since 1980.