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Patient Safety Specialist RN

2 months ago


Flagstaff, Arizona, United States Northern Arizona Healthcare Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Patient Safety Specialist RN to join our team at Northern Arizona Healthcare. The successful candidate will be responsible for advancing our patient safety program and ensuring the highest level of care for our patients.

Key Responsibilities
  • Operations and Investigation
    • Perform initial screening and referral of safety events reported through the safety event reporting system and escalate urgent patient safety issues to the System Director of Patient Safety and Accreditation and/or Clinical Risk Manager.
    • Facilitate the safety event triage meeting and assist with collaborative referral and assignation of safety event classification.
    • Perform review of clinical documentation in the electronic medical record and perform other forms of fact gathering to ensure appropriate safety event referrals, follow-up, and loop closure.
    • Perform safety event reviews, including root cause analysis at the direction of the Patient Safety, Quality, and Risk teams.
    • Employ process improvement techniques, systems thinking, knowledge of human factors, and the principles of Highly Reliable Organizations (HROs) in the creation of action plans designed to prevent recurrence of patient safety events.
    • Promote the Patient Safety Program through presentations, colleague training, and applicable committees.
    • Perform Failure Modes and Effects Analysis as assigned by the patient safety, quality, and risk teams.
  • Safety Culture
    • Identify trends in reported safety events and compile meaningful and actionable safety program data, for dissemination to department and senior leaders.
    • Utilize the Joint Commission and other resources such as the ECRI Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to inform proactive rounding, and collaborate with department leaders in deployment of best patient safety practices, as well as review, prioritization, and creation of action plans based on department-level patient safety event data.
  • Documentation
    • Compile objective event summaries and timelines, to inform our stakeholders to assist in their determination if a deviation from intended process or system vulnerability exists.
    • Upload updates on safety event reviews, root cause analysis, and associated action plans and loop closure, to the safety event reporting system.
  • Compliance/Safety
    • If required for position, ensure all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
    • Complete all company mandatory modules and required job specific training in the specified time frame.
    • Responsible for reporting any safety related incident in a timely fashion through the Vigilanz system; attends all safety related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
    • Responsible for maintaining up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity trends, developments, best practices and regulatory changes.
Requirements
  • Education
    • Bachelor's of Science in Nursing - Required
    • Masters Degree - Preferred
  • Certification & Licensures
    • Active, unrestricted RN License from any state (AZ preferred) Required
    • RCA2 IHI Training within 1 year of hire - Required
    • Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt - Preferred
    • Certification in Patient Safety - Preferred
    • Lean Six Sigma or other process improvement methodology - Preferred
  • Experience
    • Minimum of 3-5 years acute care as an RN - Required
    • Process improvement and/or project management - Preferred