Registered Nurse-Quality Management Consultant

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Job Description

Major duties include, but are not limited:

• Providing leadership in delivering and improving holistic patient care through collaborative strategies with others, evidenced through various performance measurement, performance improvement, and quality of care activities.
• Providing support to the assigned services/service chiefs/committee chairpersons in planning, integrating, modifying, implementing, and evaluating the on-going service/committee quality management program(s).
• Supporting/collaborating on policy and program implementation strategies and provision of linkages for the Health Care System-wide quality management program.
• Serving as a facilitator and educator for administration, medical staff and service lines in meeting compliance with regulatory or accrediting agencies, VHA directives/handbooks, as well as, community healthcare standards.
• Participating in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of VHA and VISN, wide performance improvement and other related quality initiatives.
• Formulating/influencing policies of the Salem VA Health Care System and the service(s)/committee(s) assigned.
• Identifying care trends needing intervention to improve patient outcomes or reduce risk, supported by open collaboration with Patient Safety.
• Facilitation with focus on assigned service(s) and committee(s).
• Analyzing and reporting patient treatment data by procedure and outcome to identify clinical practice and resource patterns and trends.
• Comprehending and effectively analyzing the clinical content of patient care records and associated documents in terms of quality and appropriateness of care issues such as adherence to, or deviation from, accepted diagnostic and treatment protocols, including drug therapies and the presence or absence of expected outcomes.
• Developing programs which prepares for continuous readiness (i.e., preparation and development of educational training programs and materials, mock readiness surveys, patient tracer activities, etc.) for the area(s) of assignment. This includes the preparation of status reports; corrective actions with the service(s)/committee(s) to correct areas of risk in standards compliance.
• Other Quality related duties as assigned.

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: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Compressed/Flexible: Not available

Telework: Ad-hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: No Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized