Job Description

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.

Facility: Carufel Building

Location: Fargo, ND

Address: 505 7th Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102, USA

Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts

Job Schedule: Full time

Weekly Hours: 40.00

Salary Range: $31.00 - $49.50

Pay Info: Pay starts at $31 and increases according to years of applicable experience.

Department Details

Small, highly engaged team. Ability to collaborate with many people in the organization, including senior leadership. Be involved in impactful changes to impact the safe culture. Utilize your clinical skills in investigation and problem solving.

No nights. No weekends. No holidays and no on-call.

Job Summary

Actively participates in the overall safety program for Sanford by identifying potential risks within Health Services division facilities that impacts patient safety. Responsible for managing safety events related to patients, visitors, physicians and employees within the patient safety evaluation system. Leads, facilitates, and advises key stakeholders, department leadership, vice presidents and chiefs of medicine and nursing during analysis, deliberation and action planning of safe events and day to day patient safety concerns. Manages the day-to-day operation of patient safety programs and provides guidance to providers, clinical and leadership staff. Develops and maintains systems with the organization to detect, monitor, prevent, organize, measure, investigate, report, and manage patient safety events and other indicators of potential patient harm. Aims to increase patient safety and reduce errors in healthcare processes. Conducts cause analysis of harm events and those with potential to cause harm. Collaborates with peers in Quality, Infection Prevention, and Control, Medication Safety, Compliance, Accreditation, Legal and others to identify and facilitate improvement initiatives based upon findings of cause analyses. Compiles and analyzes patient safety data for dissemination to operations and leadership. Prepares summaries for tracking, trending and analysis of event data. This position requires excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills as well as a strong clinical background. Must have the ability to use independent critical thinking and analytical judgment in executing professional decisions. Problem solving skills are essential. Excellent interpersonal relationship skills are critical to facilitating groups and dealing with sensitive and confidential topics, and working towards conflict resolution in stressful situations. Must have comprehensive knowledge of regulatory, licensure and accreditation regulations related to patient safety.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in healthcare related field, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

Five years clinical experience required. Knowledge of regulatory, licensure and accreditation regulations related to patient safety or risk management is desired.

Must currently hold an unencumbered registered nurse (RN) license with the State Board of Nursing in ND or MN..

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org .

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0216506

Job Function: Quality and Risk Management

Featured: No

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