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Registered Nurse - Deputy Chief of Quality Management
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Nurse IV Deputy Chief of Quality Management (QM) executes leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for population groups or integrated programs that cross services and/or discipline lines and, influence the organizational healthcare mission.
What You'll Do
- →The Nurse IV Deputy Chief of QM functions as an advisor, administrator, educator, consultant, and mentor who possesses a wide range of experience and leadership ability.
- →Demonstrates performance that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
- →The Deputy Chief of QM is a self-directed nursing professional who supervises QM staff, assesses plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates the quality and safety of the delivery of care for the organization.
- →The Deputy Chief of QM ensures that services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks.
- →Leads performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and acts as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.
- →Consults and acts as a resource to leadership and staff in standards interpretation implementation, patient safety, infection control, risk management, accreditation, controlled substances program and re-design of processes and structures to improve care outcomes.
- →Develops and assist with policy and procedures, implementation as needed and collaborates with service, departments, and works toward meeting the strategic plan of the organization.
- →The Deputy Chief of QM oversees monitoring of corrective actions from survey findings and assists services who are performance outliers.
- →Provides oversight for programs such as the Joint Patient Safety Reporting (JPSR), Tort Claims, and Peer Review.
- →Responsible for completing clinical quality reviews, clinical data analysis, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- →This includes providing clinical and administrative recommendations relative to all Strategic Analytic Improvement Learning (SAIL) outcomes, External Peer Review Program (EPRP) metrics, and driving improvement initiatives within the medical center.
- →Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
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: 1a2b4a2e-cd90-4412-bccb-a8655782511b
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