What are the responsibilities and job description for the Risk Manager Nurse - East Meadow, NY position at Nassau University Medical Center?
Risk Manager Nurse
We are NuHealth. We want to make health care more affordable and more accessible here on Long Island. We are committed to delivering excellent essential medical care, and disease and lifestyle management to everyone, at every stage of life. We are experiencing some exciting changes, including expanding our services and developing new programs.
If you want to be part of the only safety net hospital in Nassau County, we have amazing openings in our Risk Managememnt Department.
In this role, you will:
- Coordinate aspects of the Hospital Risk Management Program. This includes, but is not limited to, the following areas: Development, implementation and monitoring of Risk Management projects, policies and procedures.
- Provide consultations/assistance to medical and administrative staff on legal issues and hospital policy.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including but not limited to those regarding: Coordinating service of legal documents: Review of all Hospital’s incident/occurrence reports, QA referrals, and select patient complaints. NYS Department of Health/Office of Health Systems Management Patient Complaint and Article 28 (NYPORTS) process: NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) reporting requirements: Reporting requirements of the NYS Commission of Quality of Care (CQC) for the mentally disabled.
- Collaborate with other departments to design methods to achieve optimal patient safety initiatives via review and trending of patient safety data.
- Coordinate adverse event review process including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for defined events for the hospital site and associated Faculty Group Practice sites.
- Assist Regulatory Affairs as warranted with DOH on-site surveys, OPMC and OPD inquiries.
- Coordinate hospital and or Health System wide Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) as required
- Coordinate with other clinical and administrative departments regarding risk management issues; Available to provide direction and coordinate counsel to physician, nursing and administrative staff regarding medical-legal issues. Monitors Risk Management cases and issues. Participates in special projects and performs other related duties.
- Review electronically reported events on a daily basis; investigate events that led to real or potential patient harm.
Minimum qualifications:
- Possession of a current license to practice as a registered professional nurse in New York Statewith two years of satisfactory professional nursing experience.
- Enrollment in a baccalaureate program in Nursing, Community Health, or other health related field at a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university.
Salary: $111,538 annually
Please send your resume to us at careers@numc.edu No relocation. We offer a competitive salary, medical, dental, life insurance, NYS Pension Plan and other excellent benefits.
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Salary : $111,538
