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Registered Nurse, Patient Safety-Specialist- Operational Improvement, Full Time, First Shift

University of Cincinnati Health Cincinnati, OH

Job Description UC Health is hiring a Full- time Registered Nurse (RN) for the Patient Safety- Specialist Operational Improvement for the first shift at UC Medical Center. About UC Medical Center As the pioneering hospital of UC Health, Greater Cincinnati’s academic health system, UC Medical Center has served greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for nearly 200 years. Each year, hundreds of thousands of patients receive care from our world-renowned clinicians and care teams utilizing the most advanced medical knowledge and technology available. UC Medical Center has 725 licensed beds and more than 5,800 employees. Location Cincinnati, OH, United States Qualifications Minimum Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or Health Sciences - Alternative Bachelors considered when there is additional relevant health care experience/education. | Active RN licensure in the State of Ohio. 1 - 3 Years Relevant Experience - Minimum Required. Hours: Fulltime 40 hours/week Shift: First Shift Join our team as a Registered Nurse (RN) in our Patient Safety department and work alongside the best and brightest clinical teams collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering. Join our team to BE UC Health. Be Extraordinary. Be Supported. Be Hope. Apply Today! About UC Health UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. In partnership with the University of Cincinnati, UC Health combines clinical expertise and compassion with research and teaching—a combination that provides patients with options for even the most complex situations. Members of UC Health include: UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, University of Cincinnati Physicians and UC Health Ambulatory Services (with more than 900 board-certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE and several specialized institutes including: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have received national recognition for outstanding quality and patient satisfaction. Learn more at uchealth.com. UC Health is an EEO employer. Responsibilities The Operational Improvement Specialist will provide on-site safety support within the Clinical Domain(s) and other groups as needed to advance safety improvement efforts to align with the unit/domain work within the health system’s strategic vision and plan. Performance Measurement Collaborates with Safety team members on safety initiatives to perform thorough trending and analysis of events, errors, and near misses. Provides support as needed in RCAs to facilitate efficient (45 business days or less) completion. This may include but is not limited to assisting in interview and investigation of suspected safety events or partnering with RCA Lead to perform detailed cause analysis and identify opportunities for improvement efforts. Communication Aid in transmission of information pertaining to safety strategic priorities, safety work, and process updates to frontline staff. Culture of Safety: Ensure and Advance: Provides education to associates regarding patient safety, risk management, just culture, and error prevention. Participates meaningfully in system, site, and domain safety meetings (and others as indicated). This includes but not limited to transparently reporting / escalating pertinent findings regarding deviations, opportunities to improve, barriers, and the current state of improvement work. Communicate effectively though a variety of ways (written, spoken, mentoring, and leading intergroup problem solving) to ensure engagement with staff and others occurs to promote a culture of safety. By being present onsite, partner with clinical staff to address concerns, immediate event mitigation, ensuring the use of meaningful standard work (auditing), soliciting input from staff for improvement ideas and methods of testing. Collaborates with key individuals within the Clinical Domain(s) and other groups as needed to encourage transparency, reporting, and safe practices for both patients and staff. Safety Governance Promote employee safety integration efforts, safety initiatives, promoting transparency across UC Health, and facilitating the transitions required to ensure prospective, proactive, preventable harm elimination. Verifies that staff at their site are compliant with regulations as delineated by Accreditation leadership outlined by Joint Commission, ODH, OSHA and other regulatory bodies. Improvement Utilizes evidence-based practices to adhere to benchmarks set forth by regulatory agencies to drive improvement. Collaborates with infection control and infectious disease leadership to implement and measure major safety initiative. Ensure that improvement work is consistent with the UC Health PI Way. Assist in removing barriers to improvement work. When unable to sufficiently remove barriers themselves, escalate the need to remove barriers to patient safety manager, patient safety director, or site senior leaders as necessary. Leads the standardization effort of unit-based quality and safety initiatives. Ensures system-wide utilization through collaboration with Patient Safety Director and other Site Leaders. Maintains knowledge of ongoing improvement work and opportunities throughout the Clinical Domains, and when applicable, work, that occurs outside of the domains (i.e.: falls). Leads improvement work within the Clinical Domain(s) and other groups as needed, in a manner consistent with the UC Health PI Way. Supports Patient Safety Manager in ensuring effective execution and administration of patient safety program at designated site / within Clinical Domain and other groups to facilitates efforts to achieve overall excellence in patient safety Event Detection Encourages reporting of events through UC Health chosen system and utilizes information from there for trending/tracking in partnership with Risk Management and Data & Analytics. Escalate safety concerns to patient safety director, patient safety manager, operational improvement leaders, and site senior leaders a timely manner (as soon as possible, expected to be within same business day - even when full details are not known). Other Duties Other duties as assigned that align with the UC Health Way and quality improvement.