Registered Nurse - Quality Management Consultant

Department of Veterans Affairs • Buffalo, NY

367d • $66,900 - $123,141

About The Position

The Buffalo VA Medical Center is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) for a position in Quality Management. The RN - Quality Management Consultant duties include, but are not limited to: functioning as a clinical expert and executing position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The RN is responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level and demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. The RN will collect data, monitor staff compliance with relevant policies, directives, and standards; provide reports detailing trends; and provide direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering a comprehensive quality management program area. The RN will participate in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups, and work in concert with leaders and others to sustain a culture of safety, modeling High Reliability Organization (HRO) practices. The position requires the ability to apply specialized principles and practices to ensure a systems approach to healthcare delivery and directly supports facility leadership in areas of planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of the quality program within the facility.

Requirements

• 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.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Excel.
• Experience with CPRS and VISTA.
• Experience with JLV.
• Experience with HEDIS/ORYX.

Responsibilities

• Functions as a clinical expert and executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes.
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Responsible for their assigned quality management program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations.
• Collects data, monitors staff compliance with relevant policies, directives, and standards; provides reports detailing trends.
• Provides direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering a comprehensive quality management program area.
• Participates in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups.
• 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).
• Applies 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees