Medical Leader - Physician Quality Leader; PQL - Hospital Acquired Urinary Tract Infection; HAUTI

Job Summary

The Physician Quality Leader (PQL) - Hospital Acquired Urinary Tract Infection (HAUTI) position will offer an opportunity to empower a physician to provide regional leadership and direction to our physicians and clinical staff on this quality and patient safety initiative. This role involves collaboration with the Clinical Quality and Patient Safety (CQPS) and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), senior leadership, department leaders, regional leaders and support systems to improve the safety of patients accessing care within our program.

• Engage physicians, Physician Quality Leaders and interdisciplinary teams to advance adoption of recommended HAUTI best practices.
• Provide physician education and knowledge translation related to HAUTI best practices.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of implemented improvements on medical staff.
• Support regional alignment of HAUTI related practices across Fraser Health and share learning through appropriate forums.

• Provide monthly progress updates to the Executive Director, Clinical Quality & Patient Experience, Executive Medical Director, Quality & Patient Safety, and the Regional Medical Director and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC).
• Identify evaluation measures and indicators of success to assess progress and impact.
• Provide a summary report of progress and outcomes at the conclusion of the project term.

1 year

Stipend

Active Privileges, CMPA, CPSBC Full, Member of the Department

Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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