Registered Nurse- Quality Management Consultant

About the role

The Registered Nurse- Quality Management Consultant position is located at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) - Murfreesboro - TN campus in Quality and Patient Safety.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes.
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Assigned responsibility for their assigned quality management program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations.
• Collates 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.
• Participates in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups.
• Executes the position responsibilities that demonstrate effective leadership, detailed planning, professional communication, creative and innovative approaches to the improvement of safety/healthcare program development, and possesses an ability to organize priorities.
• 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.

Requirements

• Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, Graduate of a school of professional nursing, Current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse, Possession of a current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, Graduate of a school of professional nursing, Current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse, Possession of a current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.

Skills

• Leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
• Proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning.
• Ability to self-direct in goal setting for managing complex client situations.
• Effective communication and creative approaches to the improvement of safety/healthcare program development.
• Organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and 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.
• Insurance benefits including federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care.
• Annual Employee Health requirements, such as annual Influenza vaccination, TB screening or testing, as a condition of employment.

Pay

• NY67

Schedule

• Monday- Friday
• 7:00 am-3:30 pm

Additional Information

• This is not a virtual position.