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Registered Nurse- Chief of Nursing Excellence
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Chief Nurse for Nursing Excellence reports to the Deputy Associate Director of Patient Care Services (DADPCS).
What You'll Do
- →Provides leadership and oversight for daily clinical and administrative operations within the Nursing Clinical Excellence Section/Office.
- →Functions as an advisor, administrator, educator, consultant, and mentor who possesses a wide range of experience and leadership ability.
- →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 process improvement (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.
- →Supports the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of patient-centered and organizational goals.
- →Cultivates alliances across the care continuum, building trust through active listening, engagement, and emotional intelligence.
- →Serves as a primary or alternate project manager for assigned programs and performs special projects.
- →Researches and/or analyzes unstable or complex program issues, and, based on conditions and factors that relate to the subject program and related programs, determines what information is required.
- →Compiles, assembles, and classifies statistics from source materials, computes statistical data, and verifies the authenticity of source material.
- →Reviews information, reconciles conflicting data, and devises new or modified methods to analyze findings and to develop recommendations and proposals.
- →Support nursing engagement in areas to include, but not limited to ANCC Magnet Recognition Programs, EBP, and Nursing Professional Governance.
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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: b77ce11b-8de9-488c-9811-f88b740df290
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