Patient Safety Data Analyst

University of Nevada, Reno; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Sick leave

Fitness center memberships

Discount programs

Employee assistance program

Job summary

University of Nevada, Reno is recruiting a Patient Safety Data Analyst to design and deliver BI reports, dashboards, and data visualizations that support patient safety and healthcare quality improvement. The role translates organizational needs into analytical products and performance measures for both clinical and administrative stakeholders.

The position involves validating data, supporting PSO reporting environments, and creating data dictionaries and workflow documentation to ensure clear

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in statistics, business analytics, information systems, or related field with required years of experience.
• Experience creating BI reports, dashboards, scorecards or similar analytical products.
• Experience communicating findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Designs and develops reports, dashboards, scorecards, and data visualizations to support patient safety and quality improvement.
• Translates information needs into reporting requirements and performance measures.
• Evaluates safety reports and datasets for accuracy, completeness, and proper interpretation.

Skills

Business analytics

Data visualization

BI reports

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

AHRQ Common Formats

Job description

Patient Safety Data Analyst

The University of Nevada, School of Medicine (UNR Med) is recruiting for a Patient Safety Data Analyst.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs and develops reports, dashboards, scorecards, data visualizations, and other business intelligence solutions that support patient safety, organizational learning, and healthcare quality improvement.
• Translates organizational and participating-provider information needs into reporting requirements, analytical products, and performance measures.
• Evaluates patient safety reports, dashboards, datasets, and analytical products to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and appropriate interpretation.
• Develops and performs data validation, reconciliation, quality-control, and user-acceptance testing.
• Supports implementation, configuration, testing, maintenance, and improvement of the PSO’s patient safety data collection and reporting environment.
• Creates user guides, data dictionaries, metric specifications, workflow documentation, report instructions, and other technical resources.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in statistics, business administration, business analytics, Information Systems or related field and two years of related work experience; OR Master’s Degree in statistics, business administration, business analytics, Information Systems or related field and one year of related work experience.

Related Experience

• Experience creating business intelligence reports, dashboards, scorecards, or comparable analytical products and/or reports.
• Experience with AHRQ Common Formats or similar standardized healthcare reporting specifications.
• Experience communicating analytical findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Certification or licensures: Nevada driver’s license.

Schedule and Travel

• Will be required to travel extensively across the state to meet rural hospital leaders and stakeholders.
• Occasional out of state travel for conferences.

Compensation

Grade Administrative Faculty – B To view the salary schedule for this position, please visit: Salary Schedules and select Administrative Faculty by Grade. Salary is competitive and commensurate with related education and experience.

Remarkable Retirement

Our retirement plan is beyond compare. Your 19.25% contribution is generously matched by the University. With the faculty retirement plan, you are 100% vested your first day. Sit back and watch your retirement dollars grow! All permanent employees on an annual “A” or “B” contract who are employed at least 50% full‑time are eligible to participate in the NSHE retirement program.

Perks of working at UNR

• Health insurance options including dental and vision – Health Insurance
• Generous annual, sick leave, life insurance, and long-term disability – Faculty Benefits
• E. L. Wiegand Fitness Center offers annual or semester memberships and spouse/domestic partner membership options.
• E.L. Wiegand Fitness Center Reno is proud to be a University town!
• Many local businesses offer discounts to WolfCard holders
• Mountain EAP supports employees (and eligible dependents) through life’s difficult moments.
• Mountain EAP is located in Reno and specializes in counseling and advising services for personal or interpersonal issues.
• Faculty Senate is the principal representing body for faculty. Its membership includes representatives from each academic and administrative major unit of the University.
• No state income tax!

Faculty Grant-in-Aid

The University is proud to provide a reduced-rate tuition benefit to faculty and qualified dependents. Faculty can take up to six credits per semester at a reduced rate. Dependents of faculty have unlimited credits, but in order to be eligible children must be unmarried and under the age of 24 and must receive at least 50% of their financial support from the employee and/or employee’s spouse or domestic partner.

Faculty Dual Career Assistance Program

The University of Nevada, Reno recognizes the importance of addressing dual-career couples’ professional needs. We offer a dual career assistance program to newly hired faculty spouses/partners that provides resources and assists them to identify career opportunities in Northern Nevada.

UNR Med Mission

UNR Med is committed to our four-part mission of education, research, clinical service, and diversity. We show this commitment through our demonstrated core values: people are our strength, we innovate and improve, we serve with integrity, and we success with trust and respect. The School of Medicine is an inclusive and engaged community. We recognize that diverse faculty and leaders add value to the educational experience and promote excellence in our teaching, patient care, and research missions.