RN Improvement QM

Overview

The Marion Illinois - VA Health Care System is seeking a full time Registered Nurse (RN) to join VA HCS/Quality Safety Value and High Reliability as a Quality Management Consultant -

Preferred Experience:

Three years of any nursing experience or two years of nursing experience in a Long Term/Extended Care - and/or Home Based Primary Care setting
- Quality and Continuous Care
- Advanced excel Experience preferred
- Shares knowledge gained from self-directed professional development activities - verbal and written presentations to all levels of staff - including but no limited to executive leadership. Participates in performance improved activities
- Functions as an emerging leader in providing direction to staff to identify - implement and evaluate patient care needs. Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams - HRO principles and values. Any specialty certifications in Nursing
- Lean or Six-Sigma

• English Language Proficiency
• In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f) - no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant:
  The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
• OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program
• Upon achievement of a State license - the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program
• (Reference VA Handbook 5005 - Appendix G6)
• OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing - possession of a current - full - active - and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program
• Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD)
• Current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State
  - Territory or Commonwealth (i.e.
  
  - Puerto Rico) of the United States - or the District of Columbia
• Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception:
  Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements - but do not possess the required licensure - may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)
  
  NOTE:
  
  Grandfathering Provision
  - All persons currently employed in VHA in 0610 series and performing the duties as described in the qualification standard on the effective date of the standard (1/29/2024) are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the grade held including positive education and licensure/certification
• Grade Determinations:
  The following Scope
  - Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates - and if appropriate - the level within a grade
• The Dimension requirements (Practice
  - Veteran/Patient Driven Care
  - Leadership
  - Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice/Research) are detailed for each grade and level within the online assessment: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Questionnaire/
• Grade/Level Scope Education Nurse I
  - Level I Delivers fundamental - knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical competencies
• An Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing - with no additional professional nursing required
• Nurse I
  - Level II Demonstrates integration of biopsychosocial concepts - cognitive skills and technically competent practice in providing care to clients with basic or complex
• An ADN or Diploma in Nursing AND 1 year of specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I
  - Level 1 ;
  
  OR a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with no additional professional nursing experience required
• Nurse I
  - Level III Demonstrates proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning
• Self-directed in goal setting for managing complex client situations
• An ADN or Diploma in Nursing AND 2 years of professional nursing experience in which one year is equivalent to Nurse I
  - Level 2
• OR a BSN and 1 year of professional nursing experience equivalent to the Nurse I
  - Level 2
• OR a Master's degree in nursing (MSN) and no additional professional nursing experience
• OR a…