Patient Safety Specialist (RN required)

Arkansas Children's; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkansas Children's in Little Rock, AR seeks a Clinical Risk & Patient Safety Project Manager with a Bachelor's degree and 2 years of related experience. RN license required; Master’s degree recommended. The role focuses on safety improvement initiatives and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities include leading safety reviews, coordinating teams, and developing education on process improvements across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• 2 years of related work experience in clinical risk or safety.
• RN license in Arkansas or a compact state.

Responsibilities

• Apply safety concepts and tools to proactive and reactive events.
• Identify cases requiring medical service case review.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary case review meetings and track action items.
• Serve as a resource for service level case reviews to support improvement.
• Participate in daily safety event review and classification.
• Lead projects, coordinate teams, and monitor performance measures.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Public speaking

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (recommended)

Job description

ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S IS A TOBACCO FREE WORKPLACE. FLU VACCINES ARE REQUIRED. ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WILL RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE, DISABILITY, PROTECTED VETERAN STATUS OR ANY OTHER CHARACTERISTIC PROTECTED BY FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL LAWS.

Time Type

Full time

Department

CC017665 Clinical Risk and Patient Safety

Summary

Clinical Risk & Patient Safety Department - Mon-Fri 8a-5p - RN, Bachelor's degree & 2 yrs of related work exp required

Additional Information

Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills desired. Public speaking is required to small audiences.

Responsibilities

• Application of safety concepts and tools both proactively and in response to safety events.
• Identification of cases requiring medical service case review.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary case review meetings, discussions and track action items to loop closure.
• Serve as a resource in service level case review meetings to support improvement
• Participates in daily safety event review and classification.

Supports improvement activities by assisting with plan design, implementation and support for select initiatives as defined by organizational and strategic goals set forth by senior leadership. The Clinical Project Manager functions as an organizational expert about the most current improvement science concepts and how they can be applied to the wide variety of improvement initiatives within the organization.

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Recommended Education

Master's Degree

Required Work Experience

Related Field - 2 years of experience

Required Certifications

Registered Nurse (RN) license - Arkansas or Compact State

Recommended Certifications

Certified Professional Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) - National Association for Health Quality (NAHQ)

Description

• Consults with department leadership to identify key projects or improvement activities that will provide key benefits to patients, families and the organization.
• Coordinates project teams throughout the project life cycle including prioritizing among other initiatives, allocating resources, providing project updates to hospital committees and holding the team accountable.
• Provides guidance and technical proficiency to project team to obtain positive results in the form of improved processes.
• Ensures team creates team charter, tracks deliverables, creates timeline, identifies project members and provides guidance on resource requirements.
• Establishes and monitors performance measures, quantitative data and feedback on key responsibilities, as well as measures of success for each improvement activity.
• Analyzes data to support projects.
• Develops and facilitates education/training courses to provide guidance and transfer knowledge to others in the organization in tools, techniques, and methodologies of process improvement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.