RN, Quality Improvement Specialist Job at Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI

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  • Gundersen Health System
  • La Crosse, WI

Job Description

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

RN, Quality Improvement Specialist (Outpatient)

Location: La Crosse, WI

FTE: 1.0 (40 hours/week)

Shift: Business hours, typically 8am-4:30pm

Pay: Starting pay of $79,268.80/year, with more based on experience

Weekend/Holidays: No weekends or holidays!


Emplify Health by Gundersen is seeking a RN, Quality Improvement Specialist to join our Quality and Patient Safety department. This role offers the opportunity to advance system wide quality initiatives and support clinical excellence while living in the beautiful Coulee Region.



About the Role
The RN, Quality Improvement Specialist serves as a proactive consultant, educator, and advisor in system design and quality improvement practices. This clinically focused role emphasizes patient safety, evidence based practice, and population health integration.
You will partner with directors, managers, and frontline staff to provide expert guidance, research, education, and tools that support continuous improvement in patient care. The specialist also facilitates communication and required work across committees and the nursing council structure to strengthen clinical processes and workflows. This role supports compliance with regulatory standards and promotes collaboration across internal and external partners.



What You Will Do

  • Lead and support performance improvement projects

  • Serve as a resource on evidence based practices and regulatory requirements

  • Collaborate with departments on process design

  • Support compliance with Joint Commission, CMS, state regulations, and organizational policies



What You Will Get

  • Competitive compensation and Gundersen’s comprehensive benefits package

  • A top rated retirement plan

  • Professional development and continuing education opportunities

  • Access to Emplify Health by Gundersen’s Career Development Center

  • The ability to make a direct impact on patient safety and system quality



What You Need

  • Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN)

  • Minimum of 5 years of RN experience

  • Active Wisconsin RN license at time of hire

  • BLS CPR with hands on learning

  • Experience with data analysis, quality improvement, or LEAN methodology is a plus



About Emplify Health
Emplify Health brings together Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, forming a mission driven, not for profit healthcare network. With headquarters in Green Bay and La Crosse, we serve communities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula through 11 hospitals, 100+ clinics, and more than 4,500 nurses and providers.
We deliver primary, specialty, and emergency care, along with innovative medical education programs, all designed to improve the health and well being of the communities we serve.



I f you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Tags

Full time, Shift work,

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