Patient Safety Consultant (RN)
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About The Position
The Patient Safety Consultant 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 Consultant is responsible for facilitating management follow ups and assuring for comprehensiveness of corrective actions. This position works collaboratively with the Risk Management Department, Nursing Quality, Quality Patient Safety & Effectiveness Department, and other affected department staff to investigate significant and sentinel events and to coordinate the root cause analysis process. The Patient Safety Consultant is a Quality 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 Consultant 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 Consultant 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. This position is responsible for entering case reviews into the system for tracking and trending.
