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Skills

  • Healthcare risk management
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Continuous improvement strategies
  • Problem resolution
  • Documentation and compliance reporting
  • Outcome-based program evaluation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Patient safety event reduction
  • Incident reporting system management
  • Relationship development

Work Experiences

  • Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to review and enhance safety protocols, reducing patient safety events by 60% in Raleigh.
  • Devised recommendations for reducing hazards by improving equipment, procedures, and behaviors.
  • Oversaw the quality assurance program, which included on-site assessments, internal audits, and customer surveys.
  • Achieved a 81% improvement in early identification.
  • Looked for industry trends on social media and through online sources.
  • Communicated patient safety goals effectively.
  • Chaired the internal review board for serious adverse events and successfully implemented best practice recommendations, lowering recurrence rates.
  • Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams.
  • Analyzed trending data on adverse patient events to identify risks, driving a decrease in re-admissions relating to safety errors by 21% over several months.
  • Analyzed safety performance metrics.

Summaries

  • Inspector who is detail-oriented and has good multitasking and record-keeping skills.
  • Accomplished Patient Safety Specialist with a record of spearheading safety initiatives that improved compliance with standard and reduced patient care risks. Strong communicator with hospital leadership to align safety goals with strategic objectives.
  • Through the use of strategic monitoring programs, a safety-focused Construction professional evaluates and optimizes worker conditions.
  • Adaptable Patient Safety Specialist.
  • Adept at translating patient safety data into actionable insights.
  • Conducted critical data analysis.
  • Adept at reducing adverse drug events.
  • Patient Safety Specialist is a multi-talented Patient Safety Specialist who is consistently rewarded for planning and operational improvements.
  • Conducted in-depth safety audits.
  • Collaborative Patient Safety Specialist with 15 years of experience in engaging interdisciplinary teams for assessing and improving safety protocols, leading to a 57% reduction in medical errors and patient harm events.

Accomplishments

  • Reviewed and analyzed patient safety complaints, initiating corrective action plans that reduced safety-related complaints by 75% over a 2015 period.
  • Developed clinical checklists in collaboration with nursing teams, ensuring compliance and reducing safety incidents in finance by 53%.
  • Spearheaded an interdisciplinary safety group focused on surgical risk management, achieving recognized progress in reducing surgical site infections.
  • Collaborated with infection control teams to implement best practices that resulted in a 67% decrease in post-operative infection rates.
  • Developed a proactive approach to risk management, resulting in a 35% reduction in patient safety hazards over 2017 in Seattle.
  • Introduced new best practices for managing safety incidents, reducing average response time to critical patient safety events by 67%.
  • Facilitated regular safety audits across multiple units, consistently identifying areas for improvement, resulting in a 35% improvement in compliance rates.
  • Worked collaboratively with risk management to improve patient safety, resulting in 46% reduction of regulatory issues related to safety violations.
  • Collaborated with external auditors in preparation for Lean evaluation, ensuring full safety compliance with zero deficiencies.
  • Developed and implemented a fall prevention program for finance, successfully reducing patient falls by 59%.

Affiliations

  • American Society of Safety Professionals
  • Freemason
  • Accreditation consultant for the DNV GL Healthcare affiliates
  • Contributor to the Healthcare Performance Improvement (HPI) network for compliance monitoring
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • Presenter at the national conference for the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) on sepsis prevention
  • Participant in Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) safety initiatives
  • Toastmasters
  • Society of Human Resource Management
  • World Alliance for Patient Safety member driving innovation in infection control

Certifications

  • Change Management Practitioner Certification
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
  • CompTIA Network+
  • Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA)
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM)
  • Hospital Emergency Response Training (HERT)
  • Certified Healthcare Environmental Manager (CHEM)
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
  • Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP)

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