RN Patient Safety Analyst

Good Samaritan Society; Fort Wayne (IN); Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Patient Safety Manager to oversee safety programs and events in Post-Acute Health Services. This fully remote position requires a strong clinical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead investigations and analyses to improve patient safety. The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to enhance operational safety and reduce errors through a systematic approach.

Benefits

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Generous time off package

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare related field required.
• Five years clinical experience required.
• Unencumbered registered nurse (RN) license mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Manage safety events related to patients, visitors, and employees.
• Conduct cause analysis of harm events impacting patient safety.
• Collaborate with various departments for improvement initiatives.

Skills

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Communication

Organizational skills

Interpersonal relationship skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare related field

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred

Job description

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.

Facility: Remote NE (Central Time)
Location: Remote, NE
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Shift: Day
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: 31.00 - 49.50

Department Details

The Good Samaritan Patient Safety Team is a newly formed group dedicated to supporting operational teams across skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, independent housing, home healthcare, and hospice services. We conduct event investigations using structured cause analysis techniques and champion the adoption of High Reliability principles—sensitivity to operations, reluctance to simplify, preoccupation with failure, deference to expertise, and commitment to resilience.

Recently, we successfully launched the SAFE event reporting system, powered by Riskonnect, across more than 300 post-acute care operations.

As a fully remote team, we are committed to fostering a supportive and balanced work environment—while also making time to enjoy the work we do together.

Job Summary

Actively participates in the overall safety program for Sanford by identifying potential risks within Post-Acute Health Services division facilities that impacts patient safety. Responsible for managing safety events related to residents, visitors, and employees within the patient safety evaluation system. Leads, facilitates, and advises key stakeholders, local/regional leadership, vice presidents and chiefs of medicine and nursing during analysis, deliberation and action planning of safe events and day to day resident safety concerns. Manages the day-to-day operation of patient safety programs and provides guidance to providers, clinical and leadership staff. Maintains systems with the organization to detect, monitor, prevent, organize, measure, investigate, report, and manage patient safety events and other indicators of potential patient harm. Aims to increase patient safety and reduce errors in post-acute healthcare processes. Conducts cause analysis of harm events and those with potential to cause harm. Collaborates with peers in Quality, Infection Prevention and Control, Compliance, Accreditation, Legal and others to identify and facilitate improvement initiatives based upon findings of cause analyses. Compiles and analyzes patient safety data for dissemination to operations and leadership. Prepares summaries for tracking, trending and analysis of event data. This position requires excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills as well as a strong clinical background. Must have the ability to use independent critical thinking and analytical judgment in executing professional decisions. Problem solving skills are essential. Excellent interpersonal relationship skills are critical to facilitating groups and dealing with sensitive and confidential topics, and working towards conflict resolution in stressful situations. Must have comprehensive knowledge of regulatory, licensure and accreditation regulations related to patient safety.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in healthcare related field, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

Five years clinical experience required. Knowledge of regulatory, licensure and accreditation regulations related to patient safety or risk management is desired.

Must currently hold an unencumbered registered nurse (RN) license with the State Board of Nursing. For Long term care they must maintain a certification/licensure as required by profession state(s) of practice and/or possess multi-state licensure privileges as required by position

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to [e-mail] .

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0226694
Job Function: Quality and Risk Management
Featured: No