Quality and Patient Safety Advisor - Adult Patient Safety (Local/Hybrid)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Quality and Patient Safety Advisor serves as a quality improvement advisor, providing project management facilitation, education, and data analysis to improve systems and processes, under occasional guidance. The role facilitates the development, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes. The position focuses on patient safety and high reliability within Adult Ambulatory and VUH, supporting shared system learning and risk prevention. It reviews patient safety events and assists with case reviews and identification of serious safety events, precursor events, and near misses. The advisor collaborates across Quality, Safety & Risk Prevention (QSRP), departments, and interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement strategies that improve care and processes; identifies and prioritizes trends, system gaps, and improvement opportunities; and manages action plans and improvement initiatives with thorough documentation in the safety event electronic database. The Department of Quality, Safety, and Risk Prevention equips and empowers Vanderbilt Health faculty and staff across its main campus, regional hospitals, and ambulatory divisions to provide safe, timely, effective, efficient, and patient-centered care. Its teams share knowledge, extend best practices, reduce variability, and improve outcomes across the health system.

Requirements

Nursing experience as an RN or LPN is required.
Three years of relevant work experience.
Bachelor's degree.
Ability to apply and explain regulatory rules and regulations, including in complex situations.
Decision-making skills in fast-paced or changing environments.
Facilitation, prioritization, data interpretation, and relationship-building skills.
Knowledge of quality and performance improvement methodology, including opportunity analysis, key driver diagrams, performance measures, and PDSA improvement cycles.
Ability to identify and evaluate patient safety risks, near misses, and adverse events and communicate findings.
Data analysis, project management, time management, communication, and change management skills.

Nice To Haves

Ambulatory or clinic experience.
Experience with chart reviews.

Responsibilities

Support patient safety and high-reliability work within Adult Ambulatory and VUH, including shared system learning and risk prevention.
Review patient safety events and assist with case reviews and identification of serious safety events, precursor events, and near-miss events.
Collaborate across QSRP, departments, and interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement strategies to improve care and processes.
Identify and prioritize trends, system gaps, improvement opportunities, and initiatives.
Organize and manage action plans and improvement initiatives, documenting them thoroughly in the safety event electronic database.
Facilitate quality improvement projects, provide education, and analyze data to improve systems and processes.
Facilitate the development, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality, care, patient safety, and financial outcomes.