Patient Safety Risk Nurse - RN IV

The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Patient Safety Lead nurse to join our quality management team and work directly under the Director of Patient Safety. Monitor and maintain all activities related to ensuring our patients safety. Be responsible for day-to-day quality management duties for the facility, including incident monitoring and risk management. Investigate incidents and occurrences related to patient safety and quality of care. Participates in regulatory readiness and performance improvement activities designed to promote the delivery of safe, quality patient care as well as support for our staff.

Schedule: 8AM-4:30PM, Monday-Friday, Weekends Off

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

• Participate in the hospital comprehensive patient safety program from trending data to provide analysis.
• Reviews incidents and calls to compliance/risk reporting lines. 
• Conducts risk investigations of incidents reported through the hospital’s incident reporting system or other means of reporting to quality, such as Joint Commission complaints. 
• Analyzes and verifies accuracy of information of incident and occurrence reports.
• Ensures any additional information relevant to the incident or occurrence is documented within the secured, confidential database.
• Facilitates the development of corrective action plans which may include a performance or process improvement plan. 
• Independently creates written reports to regulatory agencies (e.g., Department of Public Health Healthcare Quality, Board of Registration in Medicine, and The Joint Commission) in accordance with the required specifications for the regulatory agency.
• Participates in or leads applicable committees or taskforces. 
• Provides data and other quality reporting as required. 
• Provides training or education on patient safety, incident reporting or risk management.
• Collects and reports quality and patient safety data. 
• Identifies trends and causal factors for incidents. 
• Monitors incidents, investigates and requests information as needed to complete the review process. 
• Reports any issues utilizing the chain of command. 
• Leads or participates in hospital performance improvement including root cause analysis, causal analysis, proactive risk assessments including Failure Mode Effects analysis, regulatory readiness activities, and performance improvement methodologies including LEAN/Six Sigma.

Required Qualifications:

• Thorough understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare.
• Experience with clinical policies, procedures, standards, and protocols.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient information.
• Preparation of general and statistical reports.
• Communicates effectively orally and in writing.
• Can analyze and determine applicability of medical data, to draw conclusions and make appropriate recommendations. 
• Knowledge of the types and application of standard office filing systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Hospital and Nursing Department policies, procedures and standards.
• Understanding of clinical informatics and nursin