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Shift:
First Shift (United States of America)
Manager Patient Safety
Ready to champion a culture of safety and drive meaningful change where it matters most? We are seeking a visionary Patient Safety Manager to lead, inspire, and elevate our clinical quality initiatives. In this pivotal role, you won’t just monitor metrics—you will be the driving force behind our safety goals, transforming data into actionable improvement and leading critical event reviews like root cause analyses. If you are a seasoned healthcare leader with a sharp analytical mind, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for safeguarding patient well-being, we want you on our leadership team. Step into a role where your expertise directly shapes operational workflows and fosters a safer environment for our patients and staff every single day.
Details: Manager Patient Safety
Why Work at Nebraska Medicine?
Be part of something extraordinary at Nebraska Medicine!
The Manager of Patient Safety is responsible for the management, coordination, and monitoring of tasks and improvement efforts related to patient safety. Support the achievement of the organization's safety goals and utilize appropriate resources to benchmark safety achievements and set organizational direction. Lead the development of processes to ensure appropriate safety event reviews, including, but not limited to, debriefs and root cause analyses, and support follow-up action plan completion.
Required Qualifications: Manager Patient Safety
• Minimum of five years nursing, allied health, healthcare operations, or other related healthcare experience required.
• Minimum of two years leadership experience required.
• Bachelor's degree in a clinical or healthcare related field required.
• Demonstrated knowledge and competency with quality improvement (QI), outcomes monitoring, and/or process development required.
• Knowledge of operational healthcare/hospital/clinic workflows required.
• Demonstrated knowledge in data collection, analysis and interpretation required.
• Demonstrated critical thinking/analytical skills as well as strong problem-solving skills required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of team building, both as a participant of teams and in a leadership role required.
• Demonstrated excellent organizational and communication skills (written and verbal), leadership and facilitation abilities required.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and capabilities, along with the ability to work cross-functionally with other leaders required.
• Proficiency with office computer tools (PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio and Word) required.
• Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Nebraska or current compact state license or appropriate allied health license or registration in the state of Nebraska only as required in accordance with appropriate health-related degree required.
Preferred Qualifications: Manager Patient Safety
• Master's degree preferred.
• Prior management experience preferred.
• Prior experience with root cause analysis completion preferred.
• Experience building external network of healthcare peers to problem solve preferred.
Nebraska Medicine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity and protected veterans’ status.
Nebraska Medicine, the region’s leading academic health network, serves the Omaha metro and beyond. It offers access to more than 1,400 physicians and over 70 specialty and primary care clinics.
The network's commitment to "Serious Medicine, Extraordinary Care" is upheld by more than 10,000 dedicated employees, and is evident in its two hospitals, Nebraska Medical Center and Bellevue Medical Center, which provide over 800 licensed beds.
Nebraska Medical Center, the state's largest hospital, has been recognized for its excellence by U.S. News & World Report, Becker’s Hospital Review and Forbes.
Together with its research and education partner, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Nebraska Medicine strives to transform lives and foster a healthy future for all through top-tier educational programs, groundbreaking research and exceptional patient care.
