Patient Safety Specialist (RN), Full Time Days

Patient Safety Specialist

The Patient Safety Specialist is responsible for the management of the hospitals incident/event reporting system, including staff and manager education, and for conducting intensive investigation or root cause analysis related to the delivery of safe and efficient patient care. The Patient Safety Specialist is responsible for facilitating management follow ups and assuring for comprehensiveness of corrective actions. This position works collaboratively with the Risk Management Department, Patient Safety and Accreditation Department, Quality Department, Medical Staff Office Department, and other affected department leaders and staff to investigate significant and sentinel events and to coordinate the root cause analysis process.

The Patient Safety Specialist is a role that performs a range of functions that support the delivery of safe and effective patient care, the reduction of medical/health care errors and other factors that contribute to unintended adverse patient outcomes, improvement of the facility-wide patient safety program, and to ensure timely reporting of and follow-up/corrective action is taken in response to such events/incidents in accordance with the requirements of hospital policies, the Joint Commission, and other external regulatory and accrediting bodies. The Patient Safety Specialist must possess the ability to perform extensive clinical investigations and root cause analysis of significant and sentinel events in order to assess potential liability and identify opportunities to improve patient safety.

This position coordinates data management for reporting unit level, department level and organizational level data. The Patient Safety Specialist implements systems and processes for effective data collation and ensures comprehensive analysis for identifying trends. This position designs/enhances data management tools to provide effective and user-friendly systems for data tracking.

Locations: Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley

Education Qualifications:

• Associates degree or higher Required

Experience Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of health care experience Required

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to collect and record data, evaluate data and statistics, and maintain effective reporting systems
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus
• Ability to manage, organize, prioritize, multi-task and adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to mediate and resolve complex problems and issues
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently, and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide leadership and influence others and effectively consult, advise, and instruct management and staff regarding appropriate approaches for dealing with difficult patient issues
• Knowledge of basic research and investigation techniques with an ability to interpret data, prepare reports, and ability to propose solutions to difficult situations involved in a potential or actual patient injury
• Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area
• Knowledge of medical terminology and related levels of care and treatment
• Knowledge of risk management and quality improvement principles and issues regarding patient safety
• Knowledge of statistical analysis and reporting practices pertaining to quality improvement and program evaluation
• Knowledge of the current theories, principles, practices, and standards of, as well as emerging technologies, techniques, issues, and approaches in clinical practice
• Knowledge of the variables that affect the processes and outcomes of patient healthcare
• Knowledge of and ability to apply performance improvement methodologies and tools to projects (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, proactive risk assessments, and Root Cause Analysis).

Licenses and Certifications:

• CA-RN (Registered Nurse) required

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $75.72 - $100.96 per hour