RN Patient Safety Analyst

Good Samaritan Society; Thief River Falls, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanford Health in Thief River Falls, MN seeks a Patient Safety Manager to join the on-site team. The role blends patient safety with nursing administration to advance safety across Health Services facilities.

Responsibilities include leading safety events, committee involvement, data analysis, and collaborating with Quality, Infection Prevention, Compliance, and Legal to reduce harm and improve care quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare or related field; BSN preferred.
• Five years of clinical experience.
• Unencumbered RN license with State Board of Nursing; multi-state licensure may be required.

Responsibilities

• Identify potential patient safety risks within Health Services facilities.
• Manage safety events related to patients, visitors, physicians, and staff.
• Lead and advise stakeholders during analysis and action planning.
• Support committees such as Safety, P&T, and Infection Control.
• Develop and maintain systems to detect, monitor, and report safety events.
• Collaborate with Quality, Compliance, and Legal to drive improvements.

Skills

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Written communication

Verbal communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare field

BSN preferred

Job description

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America's heartland.

Facility: Trf 59 Se Bldg
Location: Thief River Falls, MN
Address: 1720 US-59, Thief River Falls, MN 56701, USA
Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: $31.00 - $49.50

Department Details

Small team who is dedicated to the improving patient safety. It is important to like investigation work and ability to work collaboratively with different people and lead groups. This job will be potential to work part time remotely after orientation if preferred, but will need to also be on site at TRF some days as well.

Job Summary

Actively participates in the overall safety program for Sanford by identifying potential risks within Health Services division facilities that impacts patient safety. Responsible for managing safety events related to patients, visitors, physicians and employees within the patient safety evaluation system. Leads, facilitates, and advises key stakeholders, department leadership, vice presidents and chiefs of medicine and nursing during analysis, deliberation and action planning of safe events and day to day patient safety concerns.

This is a shared roll between patient safety and TRF nursing administration. This role will assist in committees like Safety, P&T, & Infection Control Committees, and responsible for Med Safety Committee. Support SAFE and work place violence. Manages the day-to-day operation of patient safety programs and provides guidance to providers, clinical and leadership staff. Develops and 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 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 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 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-0275627
Job Function: Quality and Risk Management
Featured: No