Patient Safety Specialist - Boston, United States - KORE1
Description
• Leads, facilitates, and manages multi-disciplinary quality and patient safety improvement projects with progressive independence, overseeing all aspects of project plans. Manages project management and logistics, including project timelines, agenda development, and preparation of reports for various audiences. Provides supportive management oversight for organization-wide advancement of the culture of safety.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of patient safety science, the IHI model for improvement, lean, or other improvement methodologies and tools. Exhibits progressively independent project management skills.
• Conducts risk surveys and assessments of various departments, services, and systems.
• Participates in activities utilizing the incident reporting database to identify trends and opportunities to improve patient safety. Contributes to follow-up action plans required to minimize patient safety risks.
• Contributes to the development, implementation, and evaluation of programming to promote the organization's Culture of Safety.
• Leads or serves as a consultant for teams engaged in quality and/or patient safety improvement work.
• Ensures effective data management for assigned quality improvement projects, participating in the design, development, and implementation of data collection tools. Oversees and conducts data analytics and ensures data integrity.
• Provides support to multidisciplinary teams in the development, implementation, and evaluation of quality care initiatives for specific patient populations.
• Mentors Quality & Patient Safety Associates.
• Develops and maintains positive, collaborative, supportive working relationships with medical staff, nurses, administration, department management and staff.
• Interacts with and supports education for a wide variety of personnel throughout the organization, including administration, clinicians, staff, senior management, and Department Chairpersons, on quality improvement and patient safety science, including culture of safety and principles of high reliability.
• Serves as a database administrator, as requested by department leadership.
• Ensures compliance with various codes, laws, rules, and regulations concerning patient care, including those mandated by state and federal agencies, and compliance with Joint Commission risk management standards.
• Actively participates in Joint Commission readiness preparation and surveys, and other surveys as guided by department leadership.
• Maintains awareness of legislative and regulatory activities related to quality and patient safety.
• Ensures that quality and patient safety policies and procedures are effectively communicated to employees.