Patient Safety
1 month ago
**Patient Safety & Risk Specialist**
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The Patient Safety and Risk Specialist will support the Sr. Manager of Patient Safety and Risk at BWH/BWFH to oversee and manage hospital-wide patient safety and risk initiatives and daily work at BWH and BWFH. The Patient Safety and Risk Specialist will be responsible for keeping the institution current with Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, identifying emerging trends in Patient Safety, and managing improvement teams related to patient safety initiatives. Other patient safety activities will be focused on conducting Failure Mode Effects Analyses and event cause analysis. Extensive, daily interaction with other Directors, Managers, hospital leadership, and staff in the Department of Quality and Safety is a key component of this role. The Patient Safety and Risk specialist must also be able to coordinate projects and improvement activities across multiple academic and operational departments independently and mentor other patient safety staff members.
- Responsible for the day-to-day coordination of adverse event management:
- Receives and reviews computerized adverse event reports and telephone reports of adverse events.
- Reviews all adverse event reports to ensure timely and appropriate analysis and follow up
- Identifies sentinel events, coordinates and conducts sentinel event analyses
- Works closely with the Patient/Family Relations department on risk and patient safety issues.
- Refers cases as directed to the CRICO for monitoring, investigation or defense.
- Manages reporting of appropriate adverse events to regulatory agencies, including DPH and BRM
- QPS division and coordinates unannounced hospital surveys by DPH.
- Identification and development of information related to equipment failures to ensure compliance with the reporting requirements of the Safe Medical Devices Act.
- Reviews and evaluates aggregate adverse events and claims data, as well as other hospital information in order to identify high-risk activities, procedures and departments.
- Recommends corrective and preventive actions to reduce risk. Collaborates with CRICO and hospital-based improvement teams on interventions.
- Continually evaluates hospital adverse event reporting system for potential improvement.
- Identifies, recommends and independently manages innovative patient safety initiatives:
- Assists in review and development of hospital policies.
- Participates in hospital patient safety initiatives and activities.
- Independently directs improvement activities related to safety and quality vulnerabilities, the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals and develops innovative methods to monitor improvement.
- Independently Performs as the content expert on improvement methodologies including Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) and imparts knowledge of improvement process to various safety projects. Assists hospital leaders in identifying barriers to implementing improvement plans and developing strategies to overcome these barriers. Recommends outcome measurement strategies and communication plans to hospital leadership.
- Develops the analytic and measurement strategy for all projects undertaken including development of key metrics, identification of data sources and collection of baseline data.
- Independently works to transfer current BWH and BWFH patient safety concepts and initiatives throughout BWH/BWFH such as creation of culture change, increased reporting of adverse events and near misses, and increased transparency.
- Provides staff education to nurses, physicians and committees regarding patient safety, non-punitive reporting, and error prevention.
- Works with the Sr. Manager patient safety and risk at BWH/BWFH and clinical leaders to prepare regular presentations to the Board Quality Committee, Care Improvement Council, Quality Assurance/Risk Committee, and other BWH/BWPO leadership and clinical groups, as needed.
- Performs other duties as requested
- Mentoring/Training:
- Participates in the orientation, training, and mentoring of department of quality and safety (DQS) team members.
- Participates in presenting the DQS department overview for site visits and other inter
- departmental training sessions.
- Participates in precepting of pharmacy students, medicine students and medicine residents and DQS fellows.
**About Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital**
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham, is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other forms of h
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