Clinical Patient Safety Specialist (RN)
Posted on: 26 Feb 2021
Houston, TX
Job Description
The primary purpose of the Clinical Patient Safety Specialist is to ensure coordination and facilitation of quality of care concerns identified through the patient safety reporting process or other quality review processes. Provides support on quality and patient safety processes to assist leadership and organizational committees in their pursuit of safety and quality improvement on the journey to high reliability.
KEY FUNCTIONS
Maintains safety and quality improvement efforts and opportunities directed toward achievement of optimal clinical and healthcare outcomes and high reliability activities.
Organizes and facilitates credible root cause analyses, apparent cause analyses, and common cause analyses on patient safety events through the implementation and control phases of monitoring, analyzing, and evaluation to sustain improvement in healthcare systems and processes.
Presents findings and recommendations to management/leadership for consideration of additional action as needed, to maintain patient safety and quality care provisions.
Interprets quality, safety and regulatory standards / criteria accurately in order to conduct assessment, analysis, and disposition of patient safety events/issues.
Utilizes performance improvement tools and techniques to assist teams throughout the safety and performance improvement life cycle.
Functions as clinical resource (for patient safety efforts) to Patient Safety Specialist and partners internally and externally to the department for educational purposes.
Uses clinical assessment skills to perform evaluations of patient safety processes and systems.
Prepare reports and analyses for departmental and institutional committees, workgroups, and leaders.
EDUCATION
Required:
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
EXPERIENCE
Required:
Five years of clinical nursing experience.
LICENSURE / CERTIFICATION
Required:
Current State of Texas Professional Nursing license (RN).
Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
Preferred:
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS), ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) or PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) certification as required by patient care area.
It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html
Additional Information
* Requisition ID: 137235
* Employment Status: Full-Time
* Employee Status: Regular
* FLSA: exempt and not eligible for overtime pay
* Work Week: Days
* Fund Type: Hard
* Pivotal Position: Yes
* Minimum Salary: US Dollar (USD) 79,600
* Midpoint Salary: US Dollar (USD) 99,500
* Maximum Salary : US Dollar (USD) 119,400
* Science Jobs: No
MD Anderson
Houston, TX
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is one of the world’s most respected centers devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education and prevention.
Mission
The mission of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public.
Vision
We shall be the premier cancer center in the world, based on the excellence of our people, our research-driven patient care and our science. We are Making Cancer History.
Core Values
Caring: By our words and actions, we create a caring environment for everyone.
We are sensitive to the concerns of our patients and our co-workers.
We are respectful and courteous to each other at all times.
We promote and reward teamwork and inclusiveness.
Integrity: We work together to merit the trust of our colleagues and those we serve.
We hold ourselves, and each other, accountable for practicing our values.
We communicate frequently, honestly and openly.
By our actions, we create an environment of trust.
Discovery: We embrace creativity and seek new knowledge.
We help each other to identify and solve problems.
We seek personal growth and enable others to do so.
We encourage learning, creativity and new ideas.
MD Anderson employs nearly 20,000 people, including more than 1,600 faculty members. With faculty and staff working in more than 25 buildings in Houston and Central Texas, MD Anderson is one of the largest cancer centers in the world.
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IndustryHealthcare
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