Quality, Safety, & Outreach Coordinator RN 

Acts as an internal consultant to further value through quality assurance, innovation of systems and processes, and maintains federal regulatory standards for the transplant surgery department. Partners with the transplant leadership team and Transplant Quality Program Coordinator to monitor quality metrics within the transplant team members. Develops clinical policy and procedures that meet DH, the OPTN and CMS standards of care for transplant candidates, transplant recipients and living donors. Provides outreach education to dialysis units and nephrology offices for professional staff, as well as the ESRD patients within their scope of practice.

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000.
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan.
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
• Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art.
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model.
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock's Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing. education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We recognize that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary, and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the “Upper Valley” of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.

Read more about Dartmouth Health and why YOU should work here.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s; 4 member hospitals, and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn more and apply:

Please visit:  https://dhnursing.org/nursing-careers/

Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

1. Assists in the maintenance of structures and processes which support improvement and patient safety, enable the collection, storage, and analysis of improvement and safety data, and enable compliance with external regulatory agency requirements.
2. Uses clinical knowledge in formal and informal consultation with individual staff, clinicians and managers, to address clinical quality and safety concerns.
3. Develops, and maintains on-going policies and procedures that meet DH standards of patient care, as well as meets all regulatory policy mandates from the OPTN and CMS.
4. Participates in the development of strategies to perform in-depth data collection and data & process analyses to identify opportunities for improvement and provide input into institutional decision making and goal setting.
5. Participates in clinical adverse event task groups.
6. Collaborates with the pre-transplant team to provide professional and patient education to dialysis units and nephrology offices within the referral area of the DH transplant program
7. Develops strategies to maintain and increase patient referral patterns from the dialysis units and nephrology offices to the DH transplant program.
8. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing with 4 years of clinical practice experience required.
• Master’s degree in a business or healthcare-related field with prior health systems experience preferred.
• Certification in modern improvement methodology (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) and/or Professional Project Management and/or Healthcare Quality preferred.
• Prior experience applying modern improvement methodology to lead and manage change preferred.
• Demonstrated excellence in facilitation, teaching, and interpersonal skills as well as experience in the concepts and applications of continuous improvement are essential.
• Local NE area travel required

• Licensed Registered Nurse with NH eligibility
• BLS
• Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record required in accordance with D-H’s Driver Disqualifications