Registered Nurse RN Patient Safety Consultant

Primary City/State:

Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name:

Patient Safety-Corp

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Risk, Quality and Safety

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The Registered Nurse RN Patient Safety Consultant is responsible for system level safety event triage and root cause analysis. They will assist with identification of system level trends and common cause analysis necessary to reduce preventable harm across the enterprise. This person will have a responsibility to review event reports submitted and complete chart reviews to identify if there are opportunities in care. Coordinate meetings with stakeholders including c-suite, quality, Risk Management, and others as applicable. Often Reviewing data and trending information for facility/location support. Present at monthly meetings for high level event trends.

The schedule for this position is Monday - Friday with a typical business schedule, with some flexibility required. This role is based from home with an expectation to be onsite at least once a month.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY
This position evaluates, identifies, plans, coordinates and leads enterprise and facility-specific patient safety activities in collaboration with enterprise and facility leaders. This position actively communicates with identified internal and external customers to reduce and prevent patient harm.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Assists in the reinforcement and consistent use of a standardized patient safety taxonomy and evaluation system. Serves as a consultant to system and facility leadership, as well as executive sponsors.

2. Actively identifies patient safety opportunities through concurrent event triage and review. Coordinates with leaders to investigate and respond to quality/patient safety concerns, events, significant care issues and trends. Conducts surveillance, analysis and data reporting for patient safety, while reinforcing regulatory/accreditation requirements.

3. Participates in implementation of standardized patient safety clinical practices at the enterprise and facility levels. Develops and analyzes data for administrative and clinical decision-making to support safe patient care practices and team member safety.

4. Determines risk for exposure of harm/potential harm to patients in response to identified opportunities, outcomes, etc., using a standardized taxonomy and evaluation process. Assists in the determination of the level of containment/control required for: immediate harm, risk for harm in current process and future potential for harm in partnership with enterprise and facility leaders.

5. Facilitates root cause and/or apparent cause analysis activities, variation reduction and supports identification of process improvements related to patient safety using standard improvement methodologies and tools. Collaborates with and provides direction for leaders for patient safety event investigation, closure and action planning.

6. Leverages lessons learned and communicates recommendations/required actions to avoid future patient harm. Presents data and trends, communicates identified deficiencies surfaced through internal surveillance and monitoring and conveys the status of implementation to key stakeholders and identified facility and enterprise committees and leadership teams.

7. Serves as a subject matter expert on internal and external patient safety matters. Collaborates with enterprise and facility teams: care management teams, clinical consensus groups, enterprise and facility leadership, risk management and other groups as appropriate. Provides education and resources for safety taxonomy, enterprise safety d