Clinical Nurse Manager - Detroit, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

The incumbent practices as a Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), Women's Health (WH), Clinical Nurse Manager in the Nursing department of Primary Care Services, within John D. Dingell VA Medical Center (Detroit VAMC). The Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM), has 24-hour responsibility for operating the PACT, Primary Care Clinics, in the Nursing department within the Detroit VAMC.

Duties

The scope of the work of a Clinical Nurse Manager is to support teamwork to decrease waste across the PACT, Women's Health Clinics (WH), and facility, improve efficiency, enhance patient care outcomes, improve staff communications, immediate accountability in practice, and patient and staff satisfaction. Leads in developing and monitoring clinical outcomes metrics related to patient, staff, and organizational PACT unit goals. Ensure care practices are patient-centered and maximum patient-centered care practices.

• Collaborates with other supervisors/staff, physicians, and ancillary services to resolve these concerns.
• Consults with patients/families, when necessary, serving as a patient advocate
• Functions as a leave granting official monitors time and attendance of assigned staff
• Analyzes and upgrades patient care through quality improvement activities
• Assists with orientation and training of nursing staff, evaluates and documents staff performance
• Strives to maintain clinical competencies through continuous study, in services, and participation in obtaining
• continuing education units.
• Provides management of the Traveling Veterans Program, Coordinator
• Serves as relief ACNS, as needed

The CNM supports shared governance and patient activation in the care area. This impacts with support services, Interdisciplinary Team members, outside agencies, education resources, and regulatory bodies that provide services to our veterans. This includes staff development and support in the clinical competency of staff.

The CNM supports effective fiscal management of program and service resources that supports operations such as access points, patient flow, staffing, equipment/supply, PAR levels, etc. This emphasis creates program leaders in strategic planning/forecasting, staffing methodology consultants, tracking, and managing payroll exceptions, and addressing unanticipated leave and fiscal responsibility, i.e., overtime usage.

Lead in management and clinical care to support principles related to teamwork, efficiency, and quality care. Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving virtual holistic care through collaborative strategies with others. The Clinical Nurse Manager is a registered nurse who is proficient in leadership and nursing practice and understands a situation in terms of short/long-term goals and impact (outcomes). The proficient CNM learns from experience what typical events to expect in each situation and how plans need to be modified in response to these events, always ensuring the veteran

and/or caregiver is the driver of care.

The CNM is accountable for identifying, addressing, and reporting barriers that impeded patient care.

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: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm; Monday - Friday.

Telework: Not Available.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required