Registered Nurse - Quality Risk Manager

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Registered Nurse - Quality Risk Manager functions as a clinical expert and executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates delivery of care based on age specific components.

• Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: Demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. Responsible for their assigned QM program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations in addition to providing coverage to other QM programs as needed to ensure continuity of mandatory monitoring, auditing, and reporting. Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility. Collects data, monitors staff compliance with relevant policies, directives, and standards, provides reports detailing trends, and provides direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering, a comprehensive QM program area. Participates in several facility councils, committees, and/or workgroups. Executes the position responsibilities that demonstrate effective leadership, detailed planning, professional communication, creative and innovative approaches to the improvement of safety/healthcare program development and possesses an ability to organize priorities. Works in concert with leaders and others to sustain a culture of safety, modeling High Reliability Organization (HRO) practices. Performs duties directly contributing to high quality and safe patient care within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Duties require the ability to apply specialized principles and practices to ensure a systems approach to healthcare delivery. Directly supports facility leadership in areas of planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of the quality program within the facility. 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: 8AM - 4:30PM, Monday - Friday Telework: Available, Ad-hoc only and based on agency policy, not regular or reoccurring. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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