Patient Safety Consultant, Full Time Days

About the role

The Patient Safety Consultant is responsible for managing the hospitals incident/event reporting system, conducting root cause analysis, and coordinating management follow-ups. This role also involves facilitating management follow-ups, ensuring comprehensive corrective actions, and collaborating with various departments to investigate significant and sentinel events.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, summarizes, and reports on patient safety activity to hospital and department management.
• Maintains an ongoing mechanism for monitoring action plans and deficiencies and a proactive process for areas at risk with monthly reporting to the hospital’s committee structure.
• Develops and maintains ongoing mechanisms for communication of patient safety related information across the hospital and clinics.
• Disseminates information regarding and promotes use of "best practices" and process improvements in patient safety.
• Manages the occurrence/event reporting system across the organization and ensures the integrity of data.
• Provides staff and management education on use of the incident reporting system.
• Coordinates data management for reporting unit level, department level and organizational level data.
• Implements systems and processes for effective data collation and ensures comprehensive analysis for identifying trends.
• Designs/enhances data management tools to provide effective and user-friendly systems for data tracking.
• Enters case reviews into the system for tracking and trending.
• Participates in and co-leads the review of significant adverse events to gain an understanding of the processes for Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Establishes processes to ensure that comprehensive review of events are timely and that information is sufficient for hospital leadership to make a determination regarding regulatory reporting.
• Reviews all patient safety and environment of care standards.
• Conducts analyses to include trend, pattern, and other statistically valid techniques to assist in focusing program attention and efforts.
• Makes recommendations based on findings.
• Routinely monitors all elements of the occurrence/event reporting systems software, including system dictionaries, user securities, software updates, and interface data transactions and reports.
• Serves as a member of the Joint Quality Committee and Patient Safety Committee.
• Serves as a resource for patient care departments and clinics on issues of patient safety and provides patient safety consultation for inquiries from physicians, nurses, or other healthcare practitioners.

Requirements

This role requires a Bachelor's Degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience. Knowledge of basic research and investigation techniques, medical terminology, risk management, quality improvement principles, and statistical analysis and reporting practices is essential. Additionally, knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area, and performance improvement methodologies and tools are beneficial.

Qualifications

• CA-RN (Registered Nurse) required.
• CPPS - Certified Professional in Patient Safety preferred.

Skills

Ability to collect and record data, evaluate data and statistics, and maintain effective reporting systems. Excellent communication skills, both oral and in writing, are necessary. The ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus is important. The ability to manage, organize, prioritize, multi-task and adapt to changing priorities is crucial. Leadership and influencing others, providing guidance and instruction, and consulting with management and staff on appropriate approaches for dealing with difficult patient issues are key skills.

Benefits

Stanford Health Care offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and retirement plans. Additional benefits may include paid time off, flexible spending accounts, and wellness programs.

Pay

The base pay scale for this role generally starts at $62.33 - $84.47 per hour. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training.

Schedule

The schedule for this role is Day - 08 Hour (United States of America).