Overview

Provides support for the development, monitoring, and reinforcement of care standards and protocols designed to enhance quality and promote cost-effective utilization of healthcare resources. Develop and implement improvements in quality, safety and efficiency.

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 thatquality of lifemeans 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 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.

Responsibilities

Identifies key areas in Heart and Vascular where data collection and analysis would support quality improvement in clinical care.

Develops and implements a process for the collection of short and long term outcome information for identified cardiac populations.

Designs and implements formats for existing data collection.

Utilizes nursing clinical knowledge in the review and abstraction of clinical data concerning a broad range of cardiac patient cohorts and clinical conditions.

Assists in interpretation, documentation and displays of data in an appropriate format (graphical, statistical, and/or written summary).

Assists with development and monitoring of internally and externally published Heart and Vascular performance metrics.

Charts, tracks and reports selected measures.

Works with other departments and support staff to resolve identified problems to improve processes and/or communication and serve as a member of quality committees as needed.

Assists with special statistical studies on and monthly/annual summary reports and pattern analyses summaries.

Collaborates with research in protocols requiring longitudinal follow-up.

Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

BSN with 2 years of experience of clinical practice required.

1 year of health systems experience strongly desired.

Masters degree preferred.

Prior data extraction, collection and analysis experience required.

High level of knowledge of computer technology, particularly MS Office, 4D, Access, and Oracle databases highly preferred.

Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills, with experience in the concepts and applications of continuous quality improvement are essential.

Required Licensure/Certifications

Licensed Registered Nurse with NH eligibility

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certificate required.

Don't meet every single requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Remote:Hybrid Remote;

Area of Interest:Nursing;

FTE/Hours per pay period:1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week;

Shift:Day;

Job ID:20501;

Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. We do not exclude or treat people differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.