Patient Safety Specialist

Nemours is seeking a Patient Safety Specialist (Full-Time), to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Patient Safety Specialist is responsible for assisting in the management and coordination of the patient safety program.

The Patient Safety Specialist will work with the Patient Safety team in analyzing the human, organizational, and system factors contributing to adverse events and work with them to identify and implement risk reduction strategies that promote patient safety.

The Patient Safety Specialist leads institutional patient safety improvement activities, participates in the review process of adverse events with clinical teams and works with clinicians and hospital leaders to develop processes and systems to improve patient safety.

This individual is a facilitative leader and engages others to do the right thing to keep patients safe, both in response to analysis of events and prospectively in applying principles of high reliability organizations and in promoting safety behaviors and improved design of work.

Also actively teaches and develops educational programs about patient safety, mentors' others in work related to patient safety and achieves expected outcomes efficiently and with judicial use of resources.

This individual supports a culture of learning and transparency through efforts to ensure that events are reported, escalated, and learnings are disseminated.

Job Responsibilities


* Act as organizational champion and content expert for Patient Safety concepts operating from a deep understanding of the total situation.

Act as a change agent through:
+ Promoting a culture of safety, by example, through words and actions; being the change that we want to see and expect
+ Coaching and consultation with staff and leaders to assist in application of key patient safety principles and tenets of high reliability
+ Providing just in time training and formal educational opportunities
+ Role models and uses the language of safety and high reliability
+ Encourages and promotes systems thinking


* Provides leadership in review of adverse events investigations.

Identifies and accurately interprets significant trends and patterns in patient safety and adverse events.


* Facilitates timely follow up and/or case review utilizing established report and review processes, prepares institutional reports coordinates all follow up and communications with external regulatory agencies.

This individual provides expert facilitation of the process for conducting a thorough and credible investigation of patient safety events including RCA, ACA and CCA.


* Regularly reviews trends and findings from the electronic patient safety reporting system to identify trends or vulnerabilities.

Proficiently analyzes data in collaboration with data analytic team members and integrates findings with knowledge of other patient safety events for focused departmental and organ...