**Job Summary and Responsibilities**

As a Patient Safety Specialist RN you will help Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH) improve their patient safety program so they can reducing harm, promote a culture of safety and drive a High Reliability Organization (HRO).

Every day you will play a lead role in the response to serious safety events, major unanticipated clinical events and high-risk near-miss events. You will facilitate manage the investigation, analysis, classification and corrective action planning using patient safety science principles and the tools of the Virginia Mason Production System. You will be expected to ensure standards around patient and family communication pathways and team member support pathways are followed.

Work includes: 1) providing subject matter expertise in the field of patient safety; 2) evaluating and analyzing patient safety events to prioritize and/or identify potential or actual issues which require action; 3) collecti...