About this role
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our RN Perinatal Safety Specialist, you will spearhead the implementation, promotion, support, and oversight of crucial perinatal patient safety and quality of care initiatives and programs. This specialized nursing role leverages your clinical expertise to ensure high-quality care and support for pregnant women and their families, strictly adhering to all relevant clinical and ethical standards. You will be instrumental in fostering a strong culture of safety within our healthcare facility.
Every day you will focus on promoting safe care for mothers and babies by integrating patient safety into all unit operations and clinical practices. You will contribute to quality improvement initiatives, actively working to enhance perinatal care processes and outcomes, ultimately creating a safer environment for our patients.
To be successful in this role, you will report directly to the Director of Perinatal Services and consistently demonstrate a deep commitment to patient safety. Your ability to combine clinical excellence with a proactive approach to quality improvement will be essential in driving positive changes and upholding the highest standards of perinatal care.
- Ensures all care providers on Maternal Child Health adhere to national clinical standards, principles, and practices of safety.
- Serves as a patient safety advocate and clinical role model in perinatal nursing obstetrics, keeping staff updated on Perinatal Safety Initiatives and evolving national standards.
- Implements and supports patient safety and quality of care initiatives, collaborating with leadership and promoting competency-based education.
- Monitors clinical outcomes by abstracting, recording, analyzing, and reporting Perinatal Safety data, while encouraging staff to identify and report adverse events.
- Facilitates interdisciplinary communication and education through regular safety programs, clinical drills, and fostering teamwork among all disciplines.
- Partners with hospital informatics and IT departments to ensure EHR alignment with current perinatal safety initiatives and regulatory standards.
Job Requirements
Required
- Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing
- Current RN License in applicable State
- Certification in one of the following: CCRN-NEO, C-EFM, RN-BC MCN, RN-BC-PERI, RNC [OB, GYN, NEONATAL], RNC-LRN, RNC-MNN, RNC-NIC, RNC-OB, C-EFM
- BLS
- NRP within 90 days
- A minimum of five (5) years as a clinician in Women’s Services
- A minimum of tw (2) years of project experience in Women and Infants Perinatal Safety
- Experience with quality improvement/process improvement techniques, project/program management experience
Preferred
- Master’s degree or higher
Where You’ll Work
Holy Cross Hospital – Mountain Point is a 40-bed full-service hospital serving the residents of northern Utah County. Conveniently located in Lehi, Mountain Point is easily accessible from I-15 and SR-92 just east of Thanksgiving Point. Working in a friendly community-focused hospital environment, our highly skilled medical professionals are committed to delivering exceptional care to the people of Lehi and beyond. We uphold the highest standards of patient care in an environment of respect and we continue to strive toward delivering unparalleled long-term services, equipment and facilities to meet the changing health care needs of our community. We are a leader in advanced surgical technologies and are a Level III trauma center and stroke receiving facility.