David Guiney

About David Guiney

Registered Nurse with over 10 years of experience working within Long Term Acute and…

Experience

1. Lead Quality and Safety Nurse

   Tewksbury Hospital

   Dec 2023 — Present · Tewksbury, MA, US

   Developing plans of correction through performing investigative tracer actives using the Joint Commission Standards and reporting findings to senior management to ensure continual preparedness.• Accurately able to manage electronic medical and medication ordering and documentation systems. • Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) Projects including Critical Laboratory Value Communication and External Transportation Safety Ticket to Ride.• Member of Continuous Quality Improvement and Focused Standards Assessment committees.• Conduct Root Cause Analysis, sentinel event, and focused clinical reviews on serious reportable events and non-serious reportable events to determine causational factors and corrective action plan.• Developing, implementing, and overseeing the risk management activities of a dual-department hospital for the departments of public and mental health. Risk investigation, including analyzing and verifying the information of incident and occurrence reports. Ensuring that relevant information is reported for auditing and reporting purposes. Investigating patient complaints and grievances to ensure patient satisfaction. • Ensuring mandatory reporting to regulatory agencies in accordance with required specifications for the regulatory agency. • Performance improvement including root cause analysis, causal analysis, proactive risk assessment including failure mode effect analysis, regulatory readiness activities, and performance improvement methodologies including LEAN/Six Sigma. • Engage in staff education and development related to risk reduction, performance improvement and safety events.• Investigate safety events for trends, causation and correlation.