RN, Patient Safety Coordinator - Quality - Full-time
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Erlanger Health System
📍 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Job Description
The Patient Safety Coordinator is a highly skilled registered nurse responsible for leading advancing and sustaining a culture of safety across the organization. This role serves as a clinical safety expert, system thinker, educator, and change agent who proactively identifies risks, drives multidisciplinary performance improvement, and ensures adherence to generally accepted practice standards. The coordinator uses advanced clinical knowledge, data analysis, and facilitation skills to influence safe, high-reliability care throughout system.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversees the intake, triage, and investigation of safety events, near misses, and potential serious safety events using standardized HPI methodologies (e.g., Press Ganey 3-meeting root cause analysis model, RCA2, apparent cause analysis (ACA), FMEA, cause mapping).
- Serves as a subject matter expert for safe clinical practices, human error mechanisms, safety culture, and event prevention.
- Collab...