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Job Description
Registered Nurse (RN) – Quality Coordinator
Job Type: Full-Time | Days
Schedule: 8 hour shifts | 7:45am-5pm
Your Experience Matters at Canyon Vista Medical Center
Canyon Vista Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. At Canyon Vista Medical Center, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a registered nurse (RN) joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
More about our team
Join a team where quality, patient safety, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything we do. At Canyon Vista Medical Center, we are committed to delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centered care while fostering a culture of excellence throughout our organization. Our hospital offers a broad range of healthcare services and is dedicated to advancing clinical outcomes through evidence-based practices, collaboration, and innovation. Based on information from Canyon Vista Medical Center’s services and quality initiatives, the organization emphasizes patient safety, process improvement, teamwork, and exceptional care for the communities it serves.
How You’ll Contribute
The Registered Nurse (RN) Quality Coordinator supports Canyon Vista Medical Center's Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program through coordination of quality improvement, patient safety, regulatory readiness, clinical performance measurement, data validation and analysis, evidence-based process improvement, and sustained follow-through on identified improvement opportunities.
The RN Quality Coordinator serves as an internal quality and patient-safety resource and collaborates with physicians, nursing leadership, ancillary departments, hospital administration, frontline staff, and interdisciplinary teams to improve clinical outcomes, reduce preventable harm, strengthen regulatory compliance, improve patient experience, and promote a culture of high reliability and continuous improvement.
The position supports organizational readiness for accreditation and regulatory review; assists leaders with gap analysis, corrective action planning, implementation, monitoring, and validation of sustained compliance; and communicates quality performance and improvement priorities to appropriate committees and leadership. The RN Quality Coordinator practices within the Arizona Nurse Practice Act, organizational policies and procedures, applicable regulatory requirements, and demonstrated competency.
Essential Functions
- Coordinates and supports hospital-wide quality improvement initiatives aligned with strategic goals, patient-safety priorities, patient-experience priorities, and regulatory requirements.
- Facilitates multidisciplinary improvement projects using appropriate evidence-based improvement methodologies and supports teams in defining problems, establishing measures, testing interventions, and evaluating results.
- Partners with leaders to identify clinical, operational, documentation, workflow, and reliability opportunities using organizational data, observations, audits, event trends, and frontline input.
- Conducts gap analyses comparing current practice with accreditation standards, regulatory requirements, organizational policy, evidence-based practice, and defined performance expectations.
- Assists leaders in developing measurable corrective action plans with responsible persons, completion dates, monitoring methods, and defined measures of effectiveness.
- Maintains ownership of assigned improvement work through completion, appropriate escalation, or clear transfer of accountability; communication of a concern alone does not constitute completion of follow-up.
- Evaluates effectiveness and sustainability of improvement initiatives through audits, outcome monitoring, process measures, and validation of sustained compliance.
- Serves as a quality improvement consultant by providing coaching, education, data interpretation, project-management support, and practical guidance to leaders and frontline teams.
Why join us:
We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:
- Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage — with medical plans starting at just $10 per pay period — tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees, and more.
- Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
- Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
- Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
- Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
What we’re looking for:
Applicants should have a current Arizona or compact state RN license and possess an associate’s degree from an accredited nursing school. Additional requirements include:
- Associate’s Degree in Nursing required, Bachelor's or Master's Degree preferred.
- Must have an active Arizona or Compact RN License.
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), Lean Six Sigma certification, Certified Joint Commission Professional, or comparable quality/patient-safety credential preferred.
- Maintains required licensure, certifications, annual education, mandatory training, skills validation, system proficiency, competencies, and other position-specific requirements in a current status and completes all assigned requirements within established timeframes.
More About Canyon Vista Medical Center
People are our passion and purpose. Come work where you are appreciated for who you are not just what you can do. Canyon Vista Medical Center is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona and is a 106 bed Joint Commission Accredited offering a number of specialty services. We are proud to serve our community with a Level III Trauma unit, Center of Excellence for Total Joint Replacement, Level I Nursery, American College of Radiology Accredited Facility, as well as many other state of the art services to ensure our patients are cared for.
EEOC Statement:
Canyon Vista Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Canyon Vista Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.
About Us
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country. We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.
