Patient Safety Specialist

We’re searching for a Patient Safety Specialist, someone who’s ready to be part of the best ranked children’s hospital in Texas, and among the best in the nation. In this position, you will act as an organizational expert in patient safety concepts and tools and improvement and facilitation methods. Primary responsibilities include facilitating and advising on all types of Cause Analysis, event report management and data analysis and associated improvement work. This individual is a facilitative leader and engages others to do the right thing to keep patients safe, both in response to analysis of events and in applying the principles of high reliability organizations and in promoting safe behaviors. Actively teaches and develops educational programs about patient safety and mentors' others in work related to patient safety. Collaborates with other staff utilizing external resources as appropriate.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and promotes an institutional culture of safety.
• Promotes a culture of safety, by example, through words and actions.
• Assists the organization in conducting the Patient Safety Culture Survey at least every 18 months. Analyzes results, partners with department leadership and Chief Safety Officer in the dissemination of results. Assists in the development of action plans for improvement and supports improvement work.
• Facilitates psychologically safe debriefs requested by system leaders to learn and identify improvement opportunities related to policies, processes, knowledge, or systems.
• Participates in and supports Executive Culture Rounds as needed.
• Provides educational (formal and informal) offerings on safety principles and error prevention.
• Coordinates, plans, and promotes participation in activities to improve the culture of safety, including Daily Operational Briefing, Shamrock and Clover awards, Patient Safety Week activities, etc.
• Leads projects to promote patient safety including Safety Coach Program, Safety Differently Group, etc.
• Broadens individual expertise in patient safety theory and high reliability principles by facilitation of and participation in Journal and Book clubs.
• Role models and uses the language of safety and high reliability.
• Encourages and promotes system thinking.
• Participates in safety collaboratives like the Child Health Patient Safety Organization (PSO) and Texas AIM activities.
• Coordinates and supports all aspects of the event reporting process.
• Performs and leads safety event analysis.
• Works to eliminate preventable harm.
• Provides staff education to nurses, physicians, and committees regarding patient safety, nonpunitive reporting, and error prevention. Provides support for Microsystem Quality & Safety Programs.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Skills & Requirements

• Required master's degree health-related discipline, public health, quality systems management, or business administration or bachelor's degree BSN with current enrollment in a DNP bridge program
• Required RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact
• Required 3 years clinical experience 

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