Patient Safety Consultant

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
The Patient Safety Consultant is responsible for the management of the hospitals incident/event reporting system, including staff and manager education, and for conducting intensive investigation or root cause analysis related to the delivery of safe and efficient patient care. The Patient Safety Consultant is responsible for facilitating management follow ups and assuring for comprehensiveness of corrective actions. This position works collaboratively with the Risk Management Department, Nursing Quality, Quality Patient Safety & Effectiveness Department, and other affected department staff to investigate significant and sentinel events and to coordinate the root cause analysis process.

The Patient Safety Consultant is a Quality role that performs a range of functions that support the delivery of safe and effective patient care, the reduction of medical/health care errors and other factors that contribute to unintended adverse patient outcomes, improvement of the facility-wide patient safety program, and to ensure timely reporting of and follow-up/corrective action is taken in response to such events/incidents in accordance with the requirements of hospital policies, the Joint Commission, and other external regulatory and accrediting bodies. The Patient Safety Consultant must possess the ability to perform extensive clinical investigations and root cause analysis of significant and sentinel events in order to assess potential liability and identify opportunities to improve patient safety.

This position coordinates data management for reporting unit level, department level and organizational level data. The Patient Safety Consultant implements systems and processes for effective data collation and ensures comprehensive analysis for identifying trends. This position designs/enhances data management tools to provide effective and user-friendly systems for data tracking. This position is responsible for entering case reviews into the system for tracking and trending.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Analyzes, summarizes, and reports on patient safety activity to hospital and clinic management. Develops and maintains an ongoing mechanism for monitoring action plans and deficiencies and a proactive process for areas at risk with monthly reporting to the hospital’s committee structure. Develops mechanisms for communication of patient safety related information across the hospital and clinics. Disseminates information regarding and promotes use of “best practices” and process improvements in patient safety.

• Manages the occurrence/event reporting system across the organization and ensures the integrity of data.

• Provides staff and management education on use of the incident reporting system. This maybe in a large group (50 or more) pre-scheduled or individual one-to -one Just -In-Time training sessions.

• Actively promotes the use of the organization’s incident reporting system by physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers for reporting adverse patient events.

• Designs and implements ongoing in- service educational presentations that facilitate the understanding and implementation of patient safety standards within the hospital and clinics.

• Provides staff and management training on the use of the incident reporting system, both one-to -one “Just-in-Time” and scheduled for large groups. Recommends and facilitates change with the hospital and clinics in collaboration with Risk Management, Quality, and operational managers/directors to continuously improve patient safety and outcomes of care, based on identified risks.

• Participates in the development of innovative approaches to establishment, enhancement, modification, and/or improvements in a variety of programs related to patient safety.

• Collaborates with others to develop or revise policies and procedures pertaining to patient safety.

• Identifies barriers to the implementation of patient safety programs, recommends and implements corrective measures, and develops and implements improvements to the organization’s patient safety program.

• Recommends specific actions to eliminate or mitigate the risk of patient harm.

• Responds to queries for event entry from management, assists with MIDAS risk management tools. Reviews all patient incident/event reports and conducts investigations in cooperation with the Risk Management