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Nursing Excellence Registered Nurse - Chief Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This Nursing Excellence Registered Nurse - Chief Nurse position is located in the Associate Director, Patient Care service line at the West Haven campus. This position is a full time position at 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →Champions of the professional nursing practice environment that supports clinical inquiry, innovation, and excellence.
- →Functions as a consultant and mentor for evidence-based practice and PI initiatives that align with the facility and the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission and strategic plan Ensures there are systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks.
- →Leads PI initiatives by identifying quality metrics and data trends, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and acting as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.
- →Minimizes fragmentation of healthcare delivery and optimize quality of patient and family outcomes in a cost-effective manner.
- →Adheres to ethical principles in decision-making, fostering accountability at personal, organizational, and staff levels.
- →Equips staff with tools for competent care and promotes a accountability for high-quality, cost-effective outcomes.
- →Supports the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of patient-centered and organizational goals.
- →Champions a High Reliability Organization (HRO) of safety founded on a systems approach to developing evidence-based health care solutions based on prevention, not punishment, with collective mindfulness.
- →Cultivates alliances across the care continuum, building trust through active listening, engagement, and emotional intelligence.
- →Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Notifications: Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action).
- →The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted).
- →In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
- →This position is in the Excepted Service.
- →The salary is based on the grade and step approved for the selected candidate.
Requirements
- ✓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.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓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).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
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