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Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Provide clinical support and expertise related to safe patient handling and mobility across the continuum of care. Serve as a liaison between Baxter Healthcare and its customers to align patient and caregiver safety goals related to mobility solutions.

Dallas

Principle responsibilities include the prevention of future harm by initiating and overseeing the proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes (e.g. forcing functions, checklists, error causation thinking, human factors, applied informatics, and safety culture. ) Lead operational and strategic clinical initiatives to reduce patient falls and hospital acquired pressure injuries.Support improved patient outcomes by emphasizing a culture high reliability robust process improvement that incorporate accountability and timely follow-up.Coordinate disclosure of serious events events to patients and/or families and investigate events of harm with transparency and in the spirit of a just cause culture.Collaborate with defense counsel to coordinate the investigation, management, and defense of claims against Medical City Dallas.Present informative and actionable patient safety reports to appropriate committees, leadership, and the Board of Trustees.Facilitate and lead the deployment of a common cause analysis assessment of the current culture of safety to pursue and adopt a culture of high reliability.Knowledge of patient safety science principles, theory, methods, standards, and regulatory requirements.Effective change agent with the ability to inspire others to believe in a culture of safety.Responsible for clinical risk management and leading proactive and collaborative risk reduction strategies enterprise wide.Oversight of the patient advocacy and patient grievance program.

Greater St. Louis Area

Develop, organize, and lead the implementation and sustainability of system strategies to achieve Ascension's Mission and Advanced Strategic Direction. Specific responsibilities include the creation and execution of strategies and methods that accelerate clinical process reliability, quality improvements, and person family engagement. Work is completed collaboratively across Ascension engaging all members of the interdisciplinary team within a high reliability framework.

Greater St. Louis Area

Provided strategic and operational leadership for Ascension associates and affiliated members for occupational health, associate safety, and loss prevention. Established and successfully led loss prevention initiatives that reduced the occurrence of workplace violence & bullying, the incidence of patient mobility and lifting injuries to caregivers, events of needle sticks/sharps exposures, and slips, trips, and falls. Facilitated the adoption of the principles of high reliability to facilitate a culture of occupational safety that permeates throughout all levels at Ascension.

Master Of Science (Ms), Health Care Administration

Biology

Bsn, Registered Nurse