Quality Monitoring Nurse III

Date:
Nov 5, 2026

Location:

AMARILLO, TX
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Functional

Title:

Quality Monitoring Nurse III
Job Title: Nurse III
Agency: Health & Human Services Comm
Department: QMP Nurses and Pharm RMS FTE
Posting Number: 23108
Closing Date: 11/19/2026
Posting Audience: Internal and External
Occupational Category: Healthcare Support
Salary Range: $6,494.00 - $6,800.00
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Salary Group: TEXAS-B-24
Shift: Day
Additional Shift
Telework:
Travel: Up to 80%
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full Time/Part Time: Full time
FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt
Facility

Location:


Job Location City: AMARILLO
Job Location Address: 1411 E AMARILLO BLVD
Other Locations:

MOS Codes: 290X,46AX,46FX,46NX,46PX,46SX,46YX,66B,66C,66E,66F,66G,66H,66N,66P,66R,66S,66T,66W

General Description This position requires a current Texas Registered Nurse license (in good standing).
Position may be filled statewide.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Medicaid and CHIP Services (MCS) department is driven by its mission to deliver quality, cost effective services to Texans. The Quality and Program Improvement’s Quality Monitoring Program (QMP), Quality Monitoring Unit (QMU) seeks a highly qualified candidate to fill the position of Nurse III. (Quality Monitor Nurse). The QMP QMU helps address conditions in Texas Nursing Facilities (NFs) that could be detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of residents.
The ideal candidate thrives in an environment that emphasizes teamwork to achieve goals, excellence through high professional standards and personal accountability, curiosity to continuously grow and learn, critical thinking for effective execution, and integrity to do things right even when what is right is not easy.
The Quality Monitor Nurse (QMN) reports to the Quality Monitoring Unit Regional Nurse Manager. This position makes a significant contribution to MCS’s mission by conducting monitoring visits in Texas nursing facilities. The QMN utilizes their nursing expertise and knowledge in the area of nursing to assess conditions that could place facility residents’ health, safety, and welfare at risk and assist providers in improving systems.

This position must be able to apply their complex knowledge of nursing practice, their critical thinking skills as well as the rules outlined in the Texas Nursing Practice Act. The Nurse III will be familiar with local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to long-term care.
The QMN works under limited supervision, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Prepare a complex narrative report after each QM visit, RRT visit, in-service, telephonic or virtual communication with a nursing facility. This report includes a detailed narrative of any pertinent findings, any actions taken, and any recommendations made at the conclusion of a visit.
The QMN will serve as team coordinator on Rapid Response Team (RRT) visits to coordinate and monitor facility systems through observations, interviews and record reviews identifying facility strengths and implementation of changes and/or opportunities for improvement. The QMN communicates on a complex level with others (internally or externally) to provide clinical information,…