Nursing Quality Database Administrator & Statistician
St. Joseph's Health
Date: 20 hours ago
City: Paterson, NJ
Contract type: Full time
Job Description
The Database Administrator for Nursing Quality Indicators is responsible for managing the collection, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of nursing-sensitive data to support continuous improvement and compliance efforts. The role focuses on the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI), Press Ganey patient experience data, Human Resources Workforce Data, and internal quality reporting needs. This position plays a critical role in ensuring data integrity, producing actionable insights, and supporting evidence-based practice and nursing research.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health Informatics, Data Science, Public Health, or a related field is required. Master’s degree preferred (e.g., MSN, MPH, MS in Biostatistics, or MHA).
Experience
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)
About The Team
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.
The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.
The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.
The Database Administrator for Nursing Quality Indicators is responsible for managing the collection, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of nursing-sensitive data to support continuous improvement and compliance efforts. The role focuses on the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI), Press Ganey patient experience data, Human Resources Workforce Data, and internal quality reporting needs. This position plays a critical role in ensuring data integrity, producing actionable insights, and supporting evidence-based practice and nursing research.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health Informatics, Data Science, Public Health, or a related field is required. Master’s degree preferred (e.g., MSN, MPH, MS in Biostatistics, or MHA).
Experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience working with healthcare data, including clinical quality, patient experience, or nursing-sensitive indicators.
- Experience with NDNQI, Press Ganey, and hospital quality or safety databases
- Demonstrated experience performing statistical analysis and generating reports/dashboards using structured data.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, Power Query, and charts), Access, and SQL or similar query tools.
- Competence with statistical software (e.g., SPSS, R, SAS, Stata, Python) and ability to perform t-tests, ANOVA, regression, and basic predictive modeling.
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex data to clinical, operational, and executive audiences.
- Familiarity with data governance, IRB protocol support, and evidence-based practice frameworks.
- Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or other business intelligence tools.
- Prior co-authorship of a nursing research paper, abstract, or quality improvement poster.
- Knowledge of HIPAA, CMS, and DNV data standards.
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)
- Competitive salary*
- Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
- 403b retirement plan options with company match**
- Health & Wellness*
- Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
- PTO, and paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- LTD : Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance Options
- Onsite Day care Program
- Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
- 403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
About The Team
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.
The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.
The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.
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