Job Title & Specialty Area: Patient Safety Specialist
Department: Quality Patient Safety
Location: Children's Health- Dallas
Shift: Full-time; Monday through Friday 8a to 5p
Job Type: Onsite
Summary:
Facilitates cause analysis of actual or near miss events throughout the organization. Provides leadership, education, and mentoring to clinical stakeholders. Assists frontline managers /leaders with planning, developing, implementing coordination and evaluating operation and patient safety activities of the department. Facilitates multidisciplinary teams to achieve measureable and sustainable improvements in process and systems related to patient safety.
Responsibilities:
* Coordinates and facilitates the investigation, review and disposition of patient safety events though interviews, medical record and literature reviews and utilization of appropriate investigative tools.
* Utilizes high level organizational skills to manage projects.
* Serves as an expert in safety science and patient safety processes and outcomes to assist clinical and organizational stakeholders with information to improve patient safety.
* Works, in partnership, with clinical stakeholders; aggregates and analyzes data; identifies opportunities to improve patient safety; identifies trends and patterns related to near miss and actual events; develops conclusions and makes recommendations through data presentations to appropriate committees and/or teams.
* Takes operational responsibility for external survey completion as it relates to Quality and Patient Safety
* Conducts special projects / audits as assigned
* Collaborates with Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance to support necessary processes and documentation of event reviews.
* Services as a super user of various software systems such as, Excel, Power Point, Word, EPIC, Visio; able to design and develop necessary patient safety reports
How You'll Be Successful:
WORK EXPERIENCE
* At least 7 years Experience in a healthcare or clinical environment Required
EDUCATION
* Bachelors Degree Essential
* Masters Degree Preferred
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
* Registered Nurse-1N-RN Essential Current Registered Nurse or Respiratory Care Practitioner license to practice in the State of Texas - Time Frame: Upon Hire
* Respiratory Care Practitioner-1A-RCP Essential Current Registered Nurse or Respiratory Care Practitioner license to practice in the State of Texas - Time Frame: Upon Hire
* Certified Professional in Patient Safety-2P-CPPS Essential CPPS - Time Frame: 1 1/2 Years
* Cert Profnl Healthcare Quality-2P-CPHQ Pref CPHQ
A Place Where You Belong
We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children's Health a place where everyone can contribute.
Holistic Benefits - How We'll Care for You:
• Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.
• 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure
• Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
• Caregiver Leave
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
