Patient Safety Consultant

Position: Patient Safety Consultant, Full Time Days
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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)
This is a Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley 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, Patient Safety and Accreditation Department, Quality Department, Medical Staff Office Department, and other affected department leaders and staff to investigate significant and sentinel events and to coordinate the root cause analysis process.

The Patient Safety Consultant is a 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 Tri-Valley What you will do Analyzes, summarizes, and reports on patient safety activity to hospital and department 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  and implements ongoing in- service educational presentations that facilitate the understanding and implementation of patient standards within the hospital and clinics.

Recommends and facilitates change with the hospital in collaboration with Risk Management, Quality, and operational managers/directors to continuously improve patient safety and outcomes of care, based on identified risks.

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