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

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Serves as a quality improvement advisor, providing project management facilitation, education, and data analysis to improve systems and processes under occasional guidance. Facilitates the development, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes. The role focuses on patient safety and high reliability in Adult Ambulatory/VUH, supporting shared system learning and risk prevention. The advisor reviews patient safety events and assists with case reviews and identifying serious safety events, precursor events, and near misses. The position collaborates across Quality, Safety & Risk Prevention (QSRP), departments, and interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement improvements to care and processes. It also identifies and prioritizes trends, system gaps, improvement opportunities, and initiatives, 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. QSRP promotes knowledge sharing, use of best practices, reduced variability, and improved outcomes across the health system.

Requirements

Nursing experience as an RN or LPN is required.
Bachelor's degree.
Three years of relevant work experience.
Knowledge and application of regulatory compliance.
Judgment and decision-making in fast-paced or changing environments.
Ability to facilitate groups and activities using facilitation methods.
Knowledge of healthcare organizational dynamics, quality, value, patient-centered care, and the continuum of care.
Ability to prioritize critical-path work and focus teams with limited resources.
Ability to transform and interpret data findings, identify improvement opportunities, and translate them into improvement plans.
Ability to build cooperative internal and external relationships.
Knowledge of improvement methodology, including opportunity analysis, key driver diagrams, performance measure requirements, and PDSA improvement cycles.
Ability to identify and evaluate risks of harm, including patient safety risks, near misses, and adverse events, and communicate findings.
Strategic planning, data analysis, project management, and time management skills.
Clear, effective, and respectful communication skills.
Ability to support change management, recommend problem resolutions, and assist with testing and quality assurance of solutions.

Nice To Haves

Ambulatory or clinic experience is strongly preferred.
Experience with chart reviews is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide project management facilitation, education, and data analysis for quality improvement of systems and processes.
Facilitate the development, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes.
Focus on patient safety and high reliability within Adult Ambulatory/VUH, supporting 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 misses.
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, maintaining thorough documentation in the safety event electronic database.