Nurse-Quality Assurance CLC - Dublin, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

The Community Living Center RN-Quality Nurse is responsible for managing nurse quality initiatives for the Chief Nurse of Geriatrics and Extended Care service line. The focus of the individual's performance encompasses a combination of clinical, administrative, educational, and research. The incumbent performs at a level that impacts nursing, CLC neighborhoods, and program services within GEC and the Medical Center. The CLC RN-Quality Nurse assists in planning, designing, and etc.

Duties

Major duties:

• The CLC RN-Quality Nurse maintains a record on all CLC neighborhood quality measures, collects data, tracks, and trends quality performance for the Chief Nurse GEC. She/he prepares reports and briefs nursing leadership on findings and provides clinical and administrative recommendations relative to quality assessment and improvement functions.
• The incumbent performs clinical nurse observation rounds on the CLC neighborhoods weekly to validate processes and improve nursing practice and the overall quality of resident care.
• The CLC RN-Quality Nurse has progressive responsibility for activities related to risk management, patient safety, accreditation and regulatory standards, external reviews, correspondence management, CLC performance measures, standards of care and practice, and environment of care.
• Incumbent is responsible for working with various HVA, VISN, and/or local data tracking dashboards related to quality metrics and CLC performance measures. The incumbent actively develops and manages collaborative partnerships.
• Additional responsibilities include completing recurring reports and performance evaluations in a timely manner, identifying educational needs of staff, ensuring identified needs are addressed, and other duties as assigned by the Chief Nurse of GEC .
• The CLC RN-Quality Nurse participates on medical center committees, Pl/SR teams, and task forces to improve the outcomes and delivery of patient care. The CLC RN-Quality Nurse is an active member of Nursing Service committees, as assigned.
• In collaboration with nursing leadership, the incumbent is responsible for the development, implementation, tracking progress, and completion of action plans for the service line.
• Consistent with the interdisciplinary tram approach, the CLC RN-Quality Nurse establishes effective interpersonal relationships with health team members, patients, and their families/significant others.
• The incumbent must be flexible; possess a high degree of integrity; uphold professional., clinical, and VA standards; and practice loyalty to the mission and values of the organization.
• The incumbent serves as a resource to nursing administration and values collaborates with other administrators/managers to initiate improvement in care delivery to identify and resolve problems impacting patient care and unit operations.
• This positions requires the incumbent to be able to adjust to constantly changing deadlines. These deadlines are either mandated by directives received by VA Headquarters, or reports requested by top management.
• Coordination with other disciplines both within the facility and other medical centers in the VA must occur in order to accomplish tasks.
• Applies a collaborative team approach in identifying, analyzing and resolving nursing quality issues within the CLC. Consistently uses expert clinical judgment in the interpretation and evaluation of clinical or administrative data;
• Provides administrative and technical support to clinicians and management in planning for, developing, integrating, implementing and managing clinical information as related to assigned program processes;
• Delegates tasks appropriately and ensures that they are completed in a timely manner; Performs accurate data retrieval and analysis. Reports information to identify the need for change, minimize risk, ensure appropriate use of resources and ensure effectiveness of clinical and/or administrative improvements. Applies problem-solving skills leading to resolution of barriers;

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: 7:30am - 4:00pm (Must be flexible to work after hours and weekends as needed)

Telework: Not available

Recruitment Incentive: 15% May be authorized for a well-qualified candidate

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required