Registered Nurse - Patient Safety Informatics

Department of Veterans Affairs

Join the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System as a Patient Safety Informatics Registered Nurse and help drive safer, smarter care for Veterans. This high-impact role blends clinical expertise, informatics, and systems thinking to identify electronic health record risks, analyze safety trends, improve digital workflows, guide risk mitigation, and collaborate with local and national partners to strengthen patient safety across the organization.

• Bring your clinical insight and interest in health technology to a role where your work can improve care across an entire health care system. As a Patient Safety Informatics Registered Nurse, you will serve at the intersection of nursing, patient safety, and electronic health record optimization, helping identify risks before they affect Veterans and transforming safety information into meaningful improvements. You will collaborate with informatics specialists, patient safety professionals, quality leaders, and national partners to evaluate emerging issues, strengthen digital workflows, share lessons learned, and support safe system use. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence organizational decision-making, contribute to electronic health record modernization, and advance a strong culture of safety throughout the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System. Duties include, but are not limited to: - Review and reconcile patient safety events, technical tickets, system change requests, and incidents reported through Joint Patient Safety Reporting, ServiceNow, Remedy, and related electronic health record systems. - Identify patient safety risks within electronic health record workflows and partner with the facility Informatics team to evaluate concerns and develop practical solutions. - Analyze safety information using systems thinking and end-to-end workflow review to identify contributing factors, emerging risks, and opportunities to strengthen the reliability of digital care processes. - Conduct retrospective and prospective risk analyses using approaches such as Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, accident and close-call investigations, and ticket analysis. - Synthesize patient safety findings and communicate trends, risks, and recommendations to facility leaders, patient safety professionals, informatics partners, and the National Center for Patient Safety. - Develop and share site-level lessons learned and timely safety updates that help internal and external stakeholders recognize risks and apply effective mitigation strategies. - Collaborate with leadership on communication strategies for electronic health record modernization patient safety objectives, risks, and system expectations, while contributing clinical expertise through the Informatics Committee. - Educate end users and super users during electronic health record go-live and sustainment activities on patient safety responsibilities, safe-use practices, and informatics workflows. 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 7:30am - 4:00pm and 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Ad hoc may be authorized. (Employees who telework on an occasional, episodic, or short-term, and have completed required telework training and telework agreement). Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

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