Patient Safety Analyst

Sanford Health • Worthington, MN

80d • $31 - $49

About The Position

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint. The Patient Safety Analyst actively participates in the overall safety program for Sanford by identifying potential risks within Health Services division facilities that impacts patient safety. This role is responsible for managing safety events related to patients, visitors, physicians, and employees within the patient safety evaluation system. The analyst leads, facilitates, and advises key stakeholders, department leadership, vice presidents, and chiefs of medicine and nursing during analysis, deliberation, and action planning of safe events and day-to-day patient safety concerns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare related field, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• Five years clinical experience required.
• Must currently hold an unencumbered registered nurse (RN) license with the State Board of Nursing.
• Knowledge of regulatory, licensure and accreditation regulations related to patient safety or risk management is desired.

Nice To Haves

• Certification/licensure as required by profession state(s) of practice for long-term care.
• Possess multi-state licensure privileges as required by position.

Responsibilities

• Manages the day-to-day operation of patient safety programs and provides guidance to providers, clinical and leadership staff.
• Develops and maintains systems to detect, monitor, prevent, organize, measure, investigate, report, and manage patient safety events and other indicators of potential patient harm.
• Conducts cause analysis of harm events and those with potential to cause harm.
• Collaborates with peers in Quality, Infection Prevention and Control, Compliance, Accreditation, Legal, and others to identify and facilitate improvement initiatives based on findings of cause analyses.
• Compiles and analyzes patient safety data for dissemination to operations and leadership.
• Prepares summaries for tracking, trending, and analysis of event data.

Benefits

• Learning opportunities every day while determining why errors happen and how to prevent harm to patients.
• Supported by a great team of enterprise patient safety analysts to assist team collaboration for success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree