Registered Nurse-Patient Safety Coordinator-Full Time-Days

101 Riverside Hospital, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 68,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside Health in Newport News, Virginia, is seeking a qualified nurse leader to manage the rCare safety event reporting system and related processes. This role involves detection, escalation, analysis, root cause investigations, and implementing improvements to prevent recurrence.

The position requires 5-6 years acute care clinical experience and 3-4 years in hospital quality/safety/risk management, plus strong data management and project leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing is required.
• 5-6 years acute care clinical experience required.
• 3-4 years related experience in hospital health care quality, safety and/or risk management setting required.
• 3-4 years experience in project development, management, data management, and data analysis required.
• Knowledge of performance improvement models, methods, and systems required.
• Knowledge of clinical quality, patient safety and/or satisfaction performance measures/indicators preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership on projects providing subject matter expertise and technical direction preferred.

Responsibilities

• Daily management of the rCare safety event reporting system and related processes and business rules, including detection, capture, escalation, classification, analysis, prioritization, investigation, and implementation of improvements.
• Supports and coordinates the facility safety program to ensure reporting for programs.
• Supports safety risk assessment and identifies risks and improvement opportunities from facility data and quality trends.
• Maintains knowledge of safety culture survey tools and methods.
• Coordinates and participates in annual safety culture assessments as needed.
• Oversees safety data management and ensures data is accurate, timely and presented clearly to end users.
• Has deep knowledge of safety data applications and serves as content expert on navigation and use.
• Supports development and design of annual education and training plans.
• Designs, coordinates and provides training on just culture, safety and safety improvement for leadership and teams.

Skills

Leadership on projects

Data analysis

Project development

Safety data applications

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Nursing

Tools

Safety data applications

Job description

Job Summary

Newport News, Virginia

Hiring Range $68,000.00 - $93,500.00/Annual

Full Time Days Available

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the daily management of the rCare safety event reporting system application, and related processes and business rules related to the components of the safety event feedback loop to include: detection of safety issues; capture of safety issues; escalation of safety issues to the Clinical Risk Manager and senior leadership; classification of safety events; analysis of safety event data; prioritization of investigation(s); conducting investigations applying just culture principles to identify root causes and contributory factors; formulating safety solutions and system improvements; implementing changes in work systems to correct system and process vulnerabilities and monitoring the effectiveness of solutions to prevent recurrence.


• Supports and coordinates the facility safety program, ensures structure supports required reporting for programs.


• Supports and coordinates safety risk assessment, and identifies risks and improvement opportunities based on analysis of facility data, emerging national, state and local quality of care trends and issues.


• Maintains knowledge of safety culture survey tools and methods.


• Coordinates and participates in annual assessment of safety culture as needed and assigned.


• Oversees safety data management, assures data is accurate, timely and displayed in a meaningful way to end users.


• Has deep knowledge of safety data applications and serves as content expert on navigation and use.


• Supports in the development and design of annual plan for education and training.


• Design, coordinate and provide just culture, safety and safety improvement related training to leadership and team members.

Qualifications

• Education Bachelors Degree, Nursing (Required)


• Experience 5-6 years Acute care clinical experience (Required)


• 3-4 years Related experience in a hospital health care quality, safety and/or risk management setting (Required)


• 3-4 years Experience in project development, project management, data management, and data analysis (Required)


• Knowledge of performance improvement models, methods, and systems (Required)


• Knowledge of clinical quality, patient safety and/or satisfaction performance measures/indicators, data definitions and sources, and relevant national databases and benchmarks (Preferred)


• Knowledge of healthcare quality, safety and satisfaction data design, collection, aggregation, and summarization (Preferred)


• Demonstrated leadership on projects providing subject matter expertise and technical direction to other project team members (Preferred)

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Virginia Department of Health Professions (VDHP) or licensed in a compact state Upon Hire(Required)


• Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) - Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) within 1 Year(Required)


• Certified Professional in Health Care Risk Management (CPHRM) - American Hospital Association Certification Center within 1 Year(Required)


• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) - National Association of Healthcare Quality Healthcare Quality Certification Board (Preferred)


• Healthcare Accreditation Certified Professionals (HACP) - Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (Preferred)


• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt - Lean Methods Group (Preferred)

Company Culture

Our mission is to care for others as we would care for those we love. We extend that sense of caring to every patient, resident and customer, as well as to each member of our team.

We offer care at all stages of life, in hundreds of locations, giving you room to grow your career, along with great benefits and perks. At Riverside Health, your trust and safety are our top priorities.