NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America's oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 500,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown. We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source. Bellevue's clinical centers of excellence include: Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Comprehensive Children's Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.

Job Description

Functional duties and responsibilities:
1. Acts as a liaison to the performance improvement activities of the nursing department.
2. Assists the Nursing Leadership of each department in formulating the goals and objectives of the annual performance improvement plan.
3. Assist in the implementation and evaluation of the PI plan.
4. Revision of the PI plan based on the appraisal of the PI activities of the department during the previous year.
5. Monitors adherence to the standards of care and practice related to patient occurrences e.g. falls, elopements, code blue, etc.
6. Reviews occurrence reports, generates memos to specific nursing service leaders, department heads for any issue identified. Evaluate response for appropriateness.
7. Coordinates/aggregates reviews done on patient focused and organizational functions with specific indicators such as: Care of patients on restraints, patient falls, medication administration, etc.
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8. Participates in committees such as Central Nursing Performance Improvement, Medication Issue Committee, records and submits minutes of the meeting.
9. Reviews and analyzes monthly and quarterly improvement activity reports of each service for discussion in the monthly CNPI meeting.
10. Develops tools necessary to monitor compliance to the different standards of care to ensure and improve quality of care.
11. Assist in the preparation of reports for HHC Board, Quality Council and other quality management related issues.
12. Maintains confidential records of responses to patient care issues and reports on performance improvement activities .
13. Assist in implementing on-going staff education program regarding IOP program in collaboration with other disciplines.
14. Random clinical rounds/ medical records review to ensure compliance with standards of practice and care.

Minimum Qualifications

For individuals holding an unrestricted registered professional nursing license BEFORE July 1,
2020 in New York State, another state or United States territory:
1. A valid New York State license and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse
in New York State; and
2. Holds, or obtains through facility orientation, a valid and current certification in Basic Life
Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA); and
3. One (1) year of experience as a registered nurse.

For individuals issued a registered professional nursing license on or AFTER July 1, 2020,
based on expected implementation of Chapter 502 of the Laws of 2017 and Chapter 380 of the
Laws of 2018:
1. A valid New York State license and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional
Nurse in New York State; and
a. A Bachelor's of Science degree in Nursing or higher (or other nursing degree, as identified by NYS
Education Department including Master of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Doctor of
Philosophy Degree in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Science) from an accredited college or
university, registered with the NYSED; or
b. Obtains a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Nursing or higher, as described in "a" above, within ten
(10) years of the date of initial licensure; and
2. Holds, or obtains through facility orientation, a valid and current certification in Basic Life
Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA); and
3. One (1) year of experience as a registered nurse.

Please be advised that proof of Covid-19 vaccination is required prior to hire.