Corewell Health - Royal Oak, MI
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Join our team at Corewell Health as an RN Clinical Risk Specialist Senior and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare quality and safety. In this rewarding position, you will be at the forefront of minimizing clinical risk, ensuring compliance with healthcare standards, and enhancing patient care outcomes. Your expertise will drive proactive risk reduction strategies, collaborative initiatives with Patient Relations and Patient Experience teams, and innovative approaches to improve safety and quality. If you are a dedicated RN with a passion for clinical excellence and a commitment to making a difference, this is your opportunity to lead impactful change! Develops, administers, and provides recommendations to minimize risk and enhance and improve the organization's compliance with standards, laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the provision of health care, treatment and associated support services. Responsible for clinical risk management including investigation and resolution of incidents and identification of strategies to minimize risks, improve the quality and safety of patient care for designated clinical areas within the organization. Monitors trends in clinical risk and develop and implement strategies to ensure proactive risk reduction measures. Assess the litigation potential of patient related injuries and manage the resolution of pre-notice claims.
Responsibilities
- Reviews and provides recommendations regarding the development of hospital, departmental, and unit specific policies and processes as they relate to liability and risk to the organization.
- Develops and implements the Risk Management Program, including assessment and evaluation of risk management strategies.
- Manages patient incidents and administers professional liability claims in collaboration with management.
- Identifies and investigates risk management issues and serves as liaison with on-site regulatory investigations.
- Provides proactive analysis of patient safety and medical error processes and ensures that follow-up and risk treatment is identified and acted upon.
- Provides educational programs and in-service training to hospital personnel and others to enhance their awareness of risk management issues.
- Collects, analyzes, and reports data relative to risk management issues and assists with the implementation of strategies to improve outcomes.
- Serves as a consultant to the organization regarding risk management issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Nursing or related field
- LIC-Registered Nurse (RN) - State of Michigan
- 5 years of relevant experience in acute care clinical nursing
- CRT-Professional Health Risk Mgt, Certified (CPHRM) - AHA-CC American Hospital Association Certification Center within 2 years after hire
Nice-to-haves
- Master's Degree in health care related field such as nursing, or a business related field, from an approved institution
- Experience in the legal field such as with health care claims and health care risk management programs, patient safety, patient quality improvement programs, or nursing administration and management positions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals.
- On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv
- Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!
- Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance, pet insurance
- Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings
