RN Perinatal Safety Specialist

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Perinatal Safety Specialist RN, you will lead the implementation, promotion, and oversight of perinatal patient safety and quality of care initiatives and programs, combining clinical expertise with a fervent focus on patient safety.

Every day you will ensure adherence to national clinical standards, disseminate crucial safety information, facilitate educational programs, conduct safety rounds, and actively contribute to quality improvement initiatives.

To be successful in this role, you will champion a culture of safety by monitoring clinical outcomes, analyzing adverse events, developing education plans, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality, compliant care for mothers and babies.

• Ensures all care providers on Maternal Child Health adhere to national clinical standards and principles and practice of safety.
• Serves as a patient safety advocate and clinical role model in perinatal nursing obstetrics:
• Keeps staff up to date on Perinatal Safety Initiatives, including education, training, implementation, policies. ○ Keeps abreast of changing national standards of clinical practice and the CommonSpirit Health Perinatal
• Safety Initiatives.
• ○ Disseminates pertinent safety and specialty related information.
• ○ Participates in patient safety or administrative rounding.

Required

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and minimum of 5 years as a clinician in Women’s Services, upon hire and
• minimum of 2 years of project experience in Women and Infants Perinatal Safety and
• Experience with quality improvement/process improvement techniques, project/program management experience and
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 90 Days and

One of the following Certifications required upon hire:

• Critical Care Registered Nurse Neonatal, upon hire or
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring, upon hire or
• Maternal Child Nursing, upon hire or
• Perinatal Nurse, upon hire or
• Low Risk Neonatal Nursing, upon hire or
• Maternal Newborn Nursing, upon hire or
• Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, upon hire or
• Inpatient Obstetric Nursing, upon hire or
• Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, upon hire or

Preferred

• Masters Of Science or higher degree