Accreditation Nurse Manager (Registered Nurse)

<p>Vacancy for the Accreditation Nurse Manager for San Francisco VA Medical Center. Functions as a clinical expert in and executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care. The supervisory nurse manger must be detail oriented, demonstrate leadership, possess quality experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Duties include but are not limited to: Oversee the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of nursing quality metrics across the facility. Coordinate accurate data collection processes, ensuring reliability, completeness, and timely submission. Analyze quality trends and present findings to nursing leadership, committees, and interdisciplinary teams. Support quality improvement (QI) projects aimed at improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Develop, revise, and implement nursing policies and procedures in accordance with regulatory, accreditation, and best-practice standards. Serve as a resource for evidence-based practice, helping integrate research and guidelines into clinical care. Collaborate with nurse managers, frontline staff, and specialty teams to advance quality-driven initiatives. Promote and monitor a culture of safety through event review, safety rounds, education, and improvement strategies. Provide staff education on performance metrics, quality initiatives, documentation practices, and process changes. Work closely with departments such as infection prevention, risk management, compliance, and patient experience. Support organizational readiness for accreditation surveys. Prepare and deliver quality dashboards, outcome reports, and presentations for leadership and committees. Contribute to strategic planning for nursing quality, safety priorities, and long-term performance goals. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: 7:30am-4:00pm or as determined by your supervisor. Telework: Not available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS):Not Authorized</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. 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.<h3>Education</h3>IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. 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. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.