Patient Safety Manager
Air Methods
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $89,000 - $113,000 per year
About the role
- Responsible for supporting the Clinical Division to ensure safe, high-quality patient care.
- Responsible for proactive evaluation and post-event analysis of patient care delivery to ensure that clinical structure, processes, and outcomes reflect the primary outcome of safety for all Air Methods patients and crewmembers.
- Utilizes healthcare improvement strategies to reduce preventable harm, enhance patient and clinician safety, and mitigate risk to patients, clinicians, and the enterprise.
- Analyzes and improves patient safety structure, process, and outcomes using data from the Air Methods electronic health record (EHR) and clinical patient safety evaluation system (PSES).
- Develops internal/external patient safety reports in support of trend analysis and enterprise KPIs.
- Communicates data analysis to appropriate stakeholders with high-quality spoken, written, and data visualization/dashboard reports.
- Provides support to clinical leadership and clinicians during clinical care case reviews and compiles case and aggregate analysis for use in patient safety improvement efforts.
- Facilitates cause analysis and safety risk assessment to evaluate and mitigate clinical hazards and risks.
- Provides internal education and policy support to clinicians to address actual or potential clinical quality and safety issues.
- Develops, implements, and monitors sustainable action plans to address identified hazards and risks.
- Facilitates internal and external engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration with air medical safety professionals and industry groups.
- Promotes culture of safety through participation in clinical training and interdisciplinary initiatives.
- Supports research activity, accreditation readiness, and clinical compliance efforts across the division.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing or paramedic program and 3 to 5 years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree with statistics coursework preferred.
- Minimum three years of flight clinician experience.
- Demonstrates high critical thinking and reasoning skills and strong attention to detail while working in a fast-paced environment that requires ability to prioritize and multi-task.
- Ability to analyze and/or organize complex information with broad direction.
- Identifies trends.
- Actively seeks the input and opinions of stakeholders; explores and compares a wide range of options before acting.
- Ability to develop and present recommendations from accurate assessments and/or analysis.
- Offers solutions and designs to solve process, project or program issues.
- Ability to tackle ambiguous situations and develop solutions with minimal supervision.
- High level of interpersonal skill and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to maintain a calm and professional demeanor when managing challenging situations.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Current nursing or paramedic license.
- Patient safety/healthcare quality specialty certification required within two years of hire (e.g., CPPS, CPHQ).
Benefits
- For more information on our industry-leading benefits, please visit our benefits page here
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data analysispatient safety evaluationtrend analysisrisk assessmentclinical quality improvementaction plan developmentinterdisciplinary collaborationEHR utilizationstatistical analysisclinical case review
Soft Skills
critical thinkingattention to detailmulti-taskingstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingcommunicationpresentation skillscalm demeanorinterpersonal skillsorganizational skills
Certifications
nursing licenseparamedic licenseCPPSCPHQ