RN Patient Safety Analyst
About The Position
Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. This role is part of a small team dedicated to improving patient safety. It requires an interest in investigation work and the ability to collaborate with diverse individuals and lead groups. The position offers potential for part-time remote work after orientation, with some on-site presence at TRF required. The RN Patient Safety Analyst actively participates in Sanford's overall safety program by identifying potential risks within Health Services division facilities that impact 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 the analysis, deliberation, and action planning of safety events and daily patient safety concerns. This is a shared role between patient safety and TRF nursing administration. The role will assist in committees such as Safety, P&T, & Infection Control Committees, and will be responsible for the Med Safety Committee. It also supports SAFE and workplace violence initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a healthcare-related field, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
- Five years of clinical experience required.
- Must currently hold an unencumbered registered nurse (RN) license with the State Board of Nursing.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong clinical background.
- Ability to use independent critical thinking and analytical judgment in executing professional decisions.
- Problem-solving skills are essential.
- Excellent interpersonal relationship skills are critical to facilitating groups and dealing with sensitive and confidential topics, and working towards conflict resolution in stressful situations.
- Comprehensive knowledge of regulatory, licensure, and accreditation regulations related to patient safety.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of regulatory, licensure and accreditation regulations related to patient safety or risk management is desired.
- For Long term care they must maintain a certification/licensure as required by profession state(s) of practice and/or 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 within the organization to detect, monitor, prevent, organize, measure, investigate, report, and manage patient safety events and other indicators of potential patient harm.
- Aims to increase patient safety and reduce errors in healthcare processes.
- Conducts cause analysis of harm events and those with the 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 upon 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.
- Assists in committees like Safety, P&T, & Infection Control Committees.
- Responsible for Med Safety Committee.
- Support SAFE and work place violence initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
