Registered Nurse-Quality Management Consultant

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Quality Management (QM) Consultant Registered Nurse (RN) demonstrates ability and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The QM Consultant demonstrates performance that improves the care for a group of patients. They are responsible for participation in the documented outcomes at the program level. Program level outcomes must be demonstrated at any organizational level within a department and/or facility.

• The QM Consultant Registered Nurse is assigned responsibility for their assigned QM program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations. The QM Consultant 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 quality management program area. The QM Consultant participates in facility councils, committees, and workgroups, to include other duties but are not limited to: The Quality Management (QM) Registered Nurse (RN) demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The QM Consultant demonstrates performance that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. The QM Consultant is responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level. Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility. Program is defined as a substantial coordinated group of activities impacting patients and/or employees. The QM Consultant Registered Nurse is assigned responsibility for their assigned quality management program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations. The QM Consultant incumbent 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 quality management program area. The QM Consultant participates in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups. Performs duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a health care delivery system. Duties require the ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of health care management in directing or supporting a health care delivery system. The QM Consultant Registered Nurse 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. The QM Consultant Registered Nurse 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: Monday-Friday 7:00am-3:30pm Telework: Available(Ad-Hoc) Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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