Registered Nurse - Quality Management Consultant

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Registered Nurse (RN) - Quality Management (QM) Consultant functions as a clinical expert and executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care. The RN-QM Consultant demonstrates self-direction and drives improved care outcomes through effective interdisciplinary collaboration and leadership of innovative process-improvement initiatives.

• 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 Commision, 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 my 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.

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