Registered Nurse- Quality & Patient Safety

The QM Registered Nurse for Risk and Patient Safety brings principals and theory with application of critical thinking skills. The QM Registered Nurse for Risk and Patient Safety demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The QM Registered Nurse for Risk and Patient Safety works with all levels of staff within the facility, including top-level management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) team members, RCA team leaders, and RCA recorders.

The Risk Management Program encompasses multiple systematic foundational enterprise processes to include, but not limited to risk identification and assessment, oversight and compliance, internal audits, and investigations, and clinical risk management, inclusive of peer review for quality management, tort claim filings, and disclosure of adverse events. The QM Registered Nurse for Risk and Patient Safety 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. They participate in the exploration of outcomes at the program level. Program is defined as a substantial coordinated group of activities impacting patients and/or employees. Duties include but are not limited to: Demonstrate proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning. Self-directed in goal setting for managing complex client situations. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates delivery of care based on age specific components. Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. Demonstrates sound decision-making and judgment and possess excellent interpersonal skills. Collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team and leading to process improvement initiatives. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self[1]management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care. Follows procedures per established policies and guidelines Preferred Experience: BSN/ MSN preferred. Knowledge related to Quality Patient Safety and or Risk Management. Project Management skills would be helpful. 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: 4 -10 Hour Shifts, or 8, 9 hour Shifts plus one 8 hour shift Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: ADHOC Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.