Job Description

Description

SHIFT: No Weekends
SCHEDULE: Full-time

Fort Walton Beach Medical Center is a 267-bed top-performing quality hospital with over 200 of the most highly respected and qualified physicians in the area. It is the only acute care hospital in the Tri-County area that offers open heart surgery, an Advanced Primary Stroke Center accredited by the Joint Commission and an Accredited Chest Pain Center. An affiliate of the UAB Cancer Community Network, Fort Walton offers a Cancer Care Center that is accredited by the Commission on Cancer. Fort Walton Beach Medical Center also provides advanced care for critically ill patients, including cardiovascular and trauma injury care, and emergency services, including a main ER, Pediatric ER and Destin ER. Fort Walton Beach Medical Center is in partnership with Twin Cities Hospital, located in Niceville. We are also the parent company of the Rehabilitation Institute, both located in Destin.

Job Summary:

Systems Thinking and Reliable Design Expectations:

* Prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes (e.g. forcing functions, checklists, error causation thinking, human factors, applied informatics, culture).
* Support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.
* Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design.
* Reduce variation in care delivery. Partner with the Patient Safety Organization to explore identified variations when appropriate.
* Utilize alerts and best practices (e.g. Sentinel Event Alerts) to perform gap assessments and implement strong actions that will alleviate identified gaps.

Identification and Mitigation of Patient Safety Risk Expectations:

* Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility.
* Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies.
* Facilitate thorough and credible failure mode effect analysis to identify and mitigate unintended adverse patient outcomes and evaluate effectiveness of process changes.
* Perform Patient Safety Rounds that identify patient safety risks. Empower staff to identify and participate in resolution of patient safety concerns.
* Coordinate disclosure of serious events to patients and/or families in accordance with organizational policy and regulations.
* Assure timely reporting of Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) to the Patient Safety Organization.
* Actively participate in PSO learning collaboratives. Ensure implementation of best practices, alerts, and updates to drive patient safety improvement.

Safety Culture Advancement Expectations:

* Champion completion of Culture of Safety Survey
* Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.
* Support and encourage harm reporting throughout the organization through a nonpunitive just event reporting system.
* Provide feedback that acknowledges both the value of event reporting and review of reported events.
* Facilitate thorough and credible review of events that address both system and individual accountability.

Patient Safety Education Expectations:

* Include patient safety in new hire orientation presentation (e.g. PSO membership, reporting expectations, safety culture)
* Provide ongoing education to leaders, clinicians and staff on the science of safety (high reliability, effective communication, sustaining awareness/alertness) and patient safety initiatives.

Partnership with Executive and Clinical Leaders Expectations:

* Join with facility leaders to identify and hardwire behavioral norms (e.g. use of briefs, debriefs, NPSGs) that promote a culture of safety.
* Partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety (e.g. Patient Safety Rounds, Event Response, Disclosure).

Patient and Family Engagement Expectations:

* Engage patients/families when appropriate in the patient safety program.
* Seek input from patients/families involved in harm or close call events as appropriate.

Measurable Reduction in Avoidable Harm Expectations:

* Oversee the management and use of event information to benchmark and track progress to zero avoidable harm.
* Provide analysis and identifying trends from reports (e.g. PSIP data, SHARP report, Service Line Dashboards) to track progress of improvement strategies. Spread and sustain improvement.
* Present informative and actionable patient safety reports to appropriate committees to include high level presentations to Leadership, Medical Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. Include the patients story of harm. Work with facility leaders and managers to ensure thorough, credible and timely event management.

Experience:

* Clinical background required, preferably nursing.
* Minimum one year of Director of experience required. Director experience in patient safety, risk or quality preferred.
* Three to five years healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality required. Healthcare experience should be recent and within a clinical setting such as Hospital, Ambulatory Surgery Center, etc.

Licensure/Certification:

* Certification in Patient Safety (CPPS) required; If not already CPPS, must obtain certification within first 18 months of hire.
* Other licenses/certifications required by State

Education:

* Bachelors Degree in Healthcare related field required: BSN preferred.

You are worth more than a paycheck. Our Benefits Raise the Bar:

* 401(k) with an employer match up to 9%
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Paid Family Leave
* Medical Plan Options, Dental & Vision
* And much more!

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