Registered Nurse - Quality Management Consultant/Accreditation Coordinator

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes.
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.
• Collects and analyzes data to monitor staff compliance with applicable policies, directives, and standards.
• Provides analytical reports identifying trends and supports all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering a comprehensive quality management program.
• Works closely with leaders and colleagues to advance a strong culture of safety, actively demonstrating High Reliability Organization principles in daily practice.
• Makes clinical judgments and draws conclusions from collected data to identify patient care issues/trends that require intervention to improve patient care and/or obviate risk situations.
• Initiates changes in clinical practice and/or the system for delivering patient care based on current concepts and findings from research and/or studies.
• Works with medical center staff to ensure continued accreditation readiness (e.g. Joint Commission, OIG, and other accrediting bodies).

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: 6:30am - 3:00pm, Monday - Friday

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

Note: This position serves as a scribe for onsite surveys in support of ongoing facility readiness, which may occur at random. As such, the incumbent must be able to maintain availability to report on-site to the Linwood campus within one hour when notified which may occur outside of normal business hours.