Registered Nurse- (Nurse Manager)
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real, specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting includes: Summary (description of role), Qualifications (basic requirements, grade determinations, etc.), Preferred experience, VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: includes Pay, Benefits, Work Schedule etc. So we can have sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (maybe from summary?), Requirements (basic requirements?), Qualifications (grade determinations?), Skills (maybe preferred experience?), Benefits (total rewards package), Pay (maybe part of total rewards), Schedule (work schedule). Need to ensure we don't create sections with placeholder text. Use - for lists. Use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's extract content:
Summary: "The Nurse Manager functions as a clinical expert and is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing or supervising direct patient care. Assesses - plans - implements - and evaluates delivery of care based on age specific components. assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education - self management - and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care."
We can put that under About the role (or Responsibilities). Probably About the role.
Responsibilities: maybe we can list duties: assesses, plans, implements, evaluates delivery of care; coordinates care focused on patient education, self-management, customer satisfaction; ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards; aligns nursing/clinical objectives with strategic outcomes; participates in strategy planning and execution; maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards, directives, policies, SOPs; provides peers with informal constructive feedback; supports colleagues through knowledge sharing; contributes to development of care delivery models and environmental design; ensures evidence-based, accessible, affordable, equitable patient care.
We need to pull from text: after Qualifications section there is "Duties The Nurse III Nurse Manager is the designated first line supervisory authority and is responsible and accountable for the operation of their assigned units and provides coverage for other NMs as neededThe Nurse Manager engages in professional organizations to enhance leadership and career growthThey adhere to ethical principles in decision making - fostering accountability at personal - organizational - and staff levelsThe Nurse Manager contributes to the development of care delivery models and environmental design - ensuring evidence based - accessible - affordable - and equitable patient care - Ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standardsAligns nursing/clinical objectives with strategic outcomes - participating in strategy planning and executionThe Nurse Manager maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards - Directives - policies - and standard operating procedures (SOP)Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvementSupports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe - quality nursing care"
We can turn that into a list.
Qualifications: Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, graduation from approved school, etc. Also grade determinations details (scope, education, dimension). That's a lot. We'll need to preserve all substantive info. Could be long but we must include.
We can put Qualifications section with subheadings? Only allowed headings are those listed; we cannot add custom headings. So we need to put all qualification info under Qualifications heading as prose or lists.
We can break into
- for each requirement.
Similarly Preferred experience: "Primary care outpatient clinic setting experience within the last 3 years and 5 years of med surg experience - management experience - facility/contract management - labor management - staffing - time keeping - project management - quality metrics and data management"
We can put under Skills maybe.
Benefits: "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 no holidays - weekends - or on-callCompressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: ADHOC Virtual: This is not a virtual positionRelocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized"
We need to include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections only if posting actually states them. The posting includes Pay (competitive salary etc), Benefits (PTO, retirement, insurance), Schedule (7:30am-4:00pm no holidays - weekends - or on-call). Also mentions Compressed/Flexible: Not Available, Telework: ADHOC Virtual: This is not a virtual position, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized etc. Those are details but we can include them under Benefits or Schedule as appropriate.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
Thus sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), Qualifications (basic requirements + grade determinations), Skills (preferred experience), Benefits (total rewards package), Pay (competitive salary etc), Schedule (work schedule). Could also combine Pay and Benefits but instructions say prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. However we have distinct content for each; we could merge Pay into Benefits as part of total rewards. But they said use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule if posting actually states them. The posting states Pay and Benefits separately within the total rewards paragraph. Could keep separate.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
Now craft HTML.
We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed.
Let's draft:
About the role
The Nurse Manager functions as a clinical expert and is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing or supervising direct patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates delivery of care based on age‑specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self‑management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
Responsibilities
- Designated first‑line supervisory authority; responsible and accountable for the operation of assigned units and provides coverage for other Nurse Managers as needed.
- Engages in professional organizations to enhance leadership and career growth.
- Adheres to ethical principles in decision making, fostering accountability at personal, organizational, and staff levels.
- Contributes to the development of care delivery models and environmental design, ensuring evidence‑based, accessible, affordable, and equitable patient care.
- Ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards.
- Aligns nursing/clinical objectives with strategic outcomes, participating in strategy planning and execution.
- Maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards, directives, policies, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.
- Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to deliver safe, quality nursing care.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements
- English language proficiency – proficiency in basic written and spoken English (38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by either the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) at the time the program was completed.
- Individuals attending a master's‑level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may be eligible for state licensure prior to bridge program completion; after licensure they may be appointed temporarily and later converted to permanent upon successful graduation from the bridge program (VA Handbook 5005 – Appendix G6).
- Graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing must possess a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration to meet the graduation requirement; foreign nursing education higher than an associate/entry‑level degree requires formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized evaluator (e.g., International Consultants of Delaware).
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth (including Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
- Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception – candidates who meet the basic education requirements but lack required licensure may be appointed at the entry step of the applicable grade and level as a GNT on a 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years case‑by‑case) while actively pursuing licensure.
- Grandfathering provision – all persons currently employed in VHA in the 0610 series performing the described duties on the effective date of the qualification standard (1/29/2024) are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the grade held, including positive education and licensure/certification.
Grade Determinations (Scope, Education, Dimension criteria)
- Nurse I – Level I: Delivers fundamental, knowledge‑based care; requires an Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing with no additional professional nursing experience.
- Nurse I – Level II: Demonstrates integration of biopsychosocial concepts, cognitive skills, and technically competent practice; requires ADN/Diploma plus 1 year of specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level I, OR a BSN with no additional experience.
- Nurse I – Level III: Demonstrates proficiency based on conscious and deliberate planning; requires ADN/Diploma plus 2 years of professional nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II), OR BSN plus 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II, OR MSN with no additional experience, OR Master’s in a related field plus BSN with no additional experience.
- Nurse II: Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care; requires BSN plus 2 years of professional nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III, OR MSN plus 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III, OR Master’s in a related field plus BSN plus 1 year such experience, OR Doctoral degree in Nursing with no professional nursing experience, OR Doctoral in a related field plus BSN with no additional experience.
- Nurse III: Executes responsibilities showing leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care; requires MSN plus 2 years of specialized nursing experience (one of which equivalent to Nurse II and meeting all dimension requirements for Nurse III), OR Master’s in a related field plus BSN plus two years specialized experience (one equivalent to Nurse II), OR Doctoral degree in Nursing plus 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse II, OR Doctoral in a related field plus BSN plus 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse II.
- Note: Foreign education programs/degrees are not creditable as related degrees.
Skills
Preferred experience:
- Primary care outpatient clinic setting experience within the last 3 years.
- 5 years of medical‑surgical experience.
- Management experience.
- Facility/contract management.
- Labor management.
- Staffing and time keeping.
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content: Summary: "The Nurse Manager functions as a clinical expert and is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing or supervising direct patient care. Assesses - plans - implements - and evaluates delivery of care based on age specific components. assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education - self management - and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care." We can put that under About the role (or Responsibilities). Probably About the role. Responsibilities: maybe we can list duties: assesses, plans, implements, evaluates delivery of care; coordinates care focused on patient education, self-management, customer satisfaction; ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards; aligns nursing/clinical objectives with strategic outcomes; participates in strategy planning and execution; maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards, directives, policies, SOPs; provides peers with informal constructive feedback; supports colleagues through knowledge sharing; contributes to development of care delivery models and environmental design; ensures evidence-based, accessible, affordable, equitable patient care. We need to pull from text: after Qualifications section there is "Duties The Nurse III Nurse Manager is the designated first line supervisory authority and is responsible and accountable for the operation of their assigned units and provides coverage for other NMs as neededThe Nurse Manager engages in professional organizations to enhance leadership and career growthThey adhere to ethical principles in decision making - fostering accountability at personal - organizational - and staff levelsThe Nurse Manager contributes to the development of care delivery models and environmental design - ensuring evidence based - accessible - affordable - and equitable patient care - Ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standardsAligns nursing/clinical objectives with strategic outcomes - participating in strategy planning and executionThe Nurse Manager maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards - Directives - policies - and standard operating procedures (SOP)Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvementSupports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe - quality nursing care" We can turn that into a list. Qualifications: Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, graduation from approved school, etc. Also grade determinations details (scope, education, dimension). That's a lot. We'll need to preserve all substantive info. Could be long but we must include. We can put Qualifications section with subheadings? Only allowed headings are those listed; we cannot add custom headings. So we need to put all qualification info under Qualifications heading as prose or lists. We can break into
- for each requirement.
Similarly Preferred experience: "Primary care outpatient clinic setting experience within the last 3 years and 5 years of med surg experience - management experience - facility/contract management - labor management - staffing - time keeping - project management - quality metrics and data management"
We can put under Skills maybe.
Benefits: "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 no holidays - weekends - or on-callCompressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: ADHOC Virtual: This is not a virtual positionRelocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized"
We need to include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections only if posting actually states them. The posting includes Pay (competitive salary etc), Benefits (PTO, retirement, insurance), Schedule (7:30am-4:00pm no holidays - weekends - or on-call). Also mentions Compressed/Flexible: Not Available, Telework: ADHOC Virtual: This is not a virtual position, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized etc. Those are details but we can include them under Benefits or Schedule as appropriate.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
Thus sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), Qualifications (basic requirements + grade determinations), Skills (preferred experience), Benefits (total rewards package), Pay (competitive salary etc), Schedule (work schedule). Could also combine Pay and Benefits but instructions say prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. However we have distinct content for each; we could merge Pay into Benefits as part of total rewards. But they said use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule if posting actually states them. The posting states Pay and Benefits separately within the total rewards paragraph. Could keep separate.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
Now craft HTML.
We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed.
Let's draft:
About the role
The Nurse Manager functions as a clinical expert and is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing or supervising direct patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates delivery of care based on age‑specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self‑management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
Responsibilities
- Designated first‑line supervisory authority; responsible and accountable for the operation of assigned units and provides coverage for other Nurse Managers as needed.
- Engages in professional organizations to enhance leadership and career growth.
- Adheres to ethical principles in decision making, fostering accountability at personal, organizational, and staff levels.
- Contributes to the development of care delivery models and environmental design, ensuring evidence‑based, accessible, affordable, and equitable patient care.
- Ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards.
- Aligns nursing/clinical objectives with strategic outcomes, participating in strategy planning and execution.
- Maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards, directives, policies, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.
- Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to deliver safe, quality nursing care.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements
- English language proficiency – proficiency in basic written and spoken English (38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by either the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) at the time the program was completed.
- Individuals attending a master's‑level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may be eligible for state licensure prior to bridge program completion; after licensure they may be appointed temporarily and later converted to permanent upon successful graduation from the bridge program (VA Handbook 5005 – Appendix G6).
- Graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing must possess a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration to meet the graduation requirement; foreign nursing education higher than an associate/entry‑level degree requires formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized evaluator (e.g., International Consultants of Delaware).
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth (including Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
- Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception – candidates who meet the basic education requirements but lack required licensure may be appointed at the entry step of the applicable grade and level as a GNT on a 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years case‑by‑case) while actively pursuing licensure.
- Grandfathering provision – all persons currently employed in VHA in the 0610 series performing the described duties on the effective date of the qualification standard (1/29/2024) are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the grade held, including positive education and licensure/certification.
Grade Determinations (Scope, Education, Dimension criteria)
- Nurse I – Level I: Delivers fundamental, knowledge‑based care; requires an Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing with no additional professional nursing experience.
- Nurse I – Level II: Demonstrates integration of biopsychosocial concepts, cognitive skills, and technically competent practice; requires ADN/Diploma plus 1 year of specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level I, OR a BSN with no additional experience.
- Nurse I – Level III: Demonstrates proficiency based on conscious and deliberate planning; requires ADN/Diploma plus 2 years of professional nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II), OR BSN plus 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II, OR MSN with no additional experience, OR Master’s in a related field plus BSN with no additional experience.
- Nurse II: Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care; requires BSN plus 2 years of professional nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III, OR MSN plus 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III, OR Master’s in a related field plus BSN plus 1 year such experience, OR Doctoral degree in Nursing with no professional nursing experience, OR Doctoral in a related field plus BSN with no additional experience.
- Nurse III: Executes responsibilities showing leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care; requires MSN plus 2 years of specialized nursing experience (one of which equivalent to Nurse II and meeting all dimension requirements for Nurse III), OR Master’s in a related field plus BSN plus two years specialized experience (one equivalent to Nurse II), OR Doctoral degree in Nursing plus 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse II, OR Doctoral in a related field plus BSN plus 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse II.
- Note: Foreign education programs/degrees are not creditable as related degrees.
Skills
Preferred experience:
- Primary care outpatient clinic setting experience within the last 3 years.
- 5 years of medical‑surgical experience.
- Management experience.
- Facility/contract management.
- Labor management.
- Staffing and time keeping.