Registered Nurse - Patient Safety Manager

Patient Safety Manager

The Patient Safety Manager is a Registered Nurse who serves as the facility's key leader in building, implementing, and sustaining patient safety systems across all care settings. This position coordinates and executes patient safety policies and activities developed by the National Center for Patient Safety and works to promote a culture of safety throughout the medical facility. The incumbent functions as an advanced clinician and executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating delivery of care based on age specific components. He/she demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients, and is responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level outcomes broad and complex enough to be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility, Veterans Integrated Systems Network (VISN), or Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO). The incumbent is self-directed and influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team and leading innovative process improvement initiatives.

Duties to include, but are not limited to:

• Demonstrate sound decision-making and judgment and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
• Function as the lead manager and implementer of patient safety policies and activities developed by the National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) and is the facility's key person to help build and implement patient safety systems and promote safety within Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities and for VA patients in all healthcare settings.
• Provide direct support to the development, maintenance, and operation of the VHA's patient safety process at the facility level, including all levels of staff within the facility, top-level management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) team members, RCA team leaders, and RCA recorders.
• Foster the attitude that building safety is paramount and the foundation upon which safe operations are based.
• Collaborate with, train, and direct patient safety activities of personnel within the facility, such as infection control professionals, risk managers and quality managers.
• Responsible for translating the policies, theories, and strategies into action within the complex interrelationships that exist related to patient safety.
• Perform duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a health care delivery system, and apply the specialized principles and practices of health care management in directing or supporting a health care delivery system.
• All other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Full-time. Administrative Days (8:00 AM - 4:30 PM)

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized

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

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