Registered Nurse - Quality Management Consultant

About the role

Registered Nurse – Quality Management Consultant supports Erie VAMC by assisting accreditation, safety, infection control, risk management, analytics, and veteran experience programs. Collaborates with services to improve quality, gather data, monitor compliance, lead initiatives, resolve concerns, and advance High‑Reliability Organization (HRO), Patient‑Centered Care, Just Culture, and I CARE across the facility and CBOCs.

Responsibilities

• Executes responsibilities demonstrating leadership, advanced clinical judgment, and innovative approaches to managing complex patient care.
• Provides performance and leadership broad enough to improve care for a defined group of patients.
• Responsible for documented outcomes at the program or service level, ensuring measurable impact.
• Develops, manages, and evaluates programs consisting of substantial, coordinated activities affecting patients and/or employees.
• Achieves broad and complex outcomes that may be demonstrated at the facility, VISN, or VACO level.

Qualifications

• English language 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 ACEN or CCNE at the time the program was completed.
• Individuals in a master’s‑level bridge program who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in nursing may obtain a state license prior to program completion and be appointed temporarily.
• Graduates of foreign nursing schools must have a current, full, active, unrestricted registration and may need formal degree equivalency validation (e.g., International Consultants of Delaware).
• Current, full, active, unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in any U.S. State, Territory, Commonwealth, or the District of Columbia.
• Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception allows temporary appointment for candidates meeting education requirements but lacking licensure, up to 120 days (extendable to two years case‑by‑case).
• Grandfathering provision: Persons employed in VHA 0610 series on the effective date (1/29/2024) are considered to meet all qualification requirements.

Grade Determinations

• Nurse I – Level I: Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing; no additional professional nursing required.
• Nurse I – Level II: ADN or Diploma + 1 year specialized nursing experience, OR BSN with no additional experience.
• Nurse I – Level III: ADN/Diploma + 2 years professional nursing (1 year equivalent to Level II), OR BSN + 1 year experience, OR MSN with no additional experience, OR related master’s + BSN.
• Nurse II: BSN + 2 years professional nursing (equivalent to Level III), OR MSN + 1 year specialized experience, OR related master’s + BSN + 1 year specialized experience, OR Doctorate in Nursing (no experience), OR related doctorate + BSN.
• Nurse III: MSN + 2 years specialized experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II), OR related master’s + BSN + 2 years specialized experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II), OR Doctorate in Nursing + 1 year specialized experience (equivalent to Nurse II), OR related doctorate + BSN + 1 year specialized experience.

Preferred Experience

• Quality experience, patient safety, infection control, and risk management.

Pay

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off: 50 days per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 Federal holidays).
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5‑year vesting) and federal 401(k) with up to 5 % VA contributions.
• Insurance: Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long‑term care coverage (many programs portable into retirement).
• Licensure: Must hold one full, unrestricted nursing license from any U.S. State or territory.

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Telework

Ad‑hoc telework available.

Virtual

This position is not virtual.