Bed Management Solutions Registered Nurse

<p>The Bed Management System (BMS) Registered Nurse (RN) Coordinator serves as the facility subject matter expert for the VHA Bed Management System, ensuring real-time accuracy, reliability, and safety of all bed status and patient flow data. The coordinator plays a key role in supporting patient flow operations while ensuring alignment with quality, patient safety, and performance standards.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Start your career here. The Facility Administrative RN demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. Duties of the position are, but not limited to: Document outcomes at the program or service level. Maintain accurate bed availability, isolation flags, and A/T/D (admission/transfer/discharge) information in BMS. Monitor for missing or inaccurate entries; coordinate corrections with nursing units and clinical services. Provide user support and guidance on BMS workflows. Support the Chief of Quality and Patient Safety in compliance and data accuracy reviews. Serve as the facility BMS Administrator and SME for configuration, workflow management, and issue resolution. Ensure compliance with VHA directives, patient safety principles, and data integrity standards. Collaborate with facility IT, VISN resources, and the National BMS Program Office. Lead efforts to maintain 95% BMS data accuracy across all bed and patient movement fields. Support patient flow operations by providing current bed status, discharge projections, and capacity constraints. Participate in daily bed huddles and provide essential BMS data. Identify potential data-related flow barriers and escalate issues to QPS leadership. Analyze systemic issues using bed data, dashboards, and movement patterns. Work with ED, inpatient units, case management, EVS, and leadership to reduce delays and improve movement reliability. Monitor flow-related safety risks (isolation misalignment, level-of-care accuracy, bed type designation). Conduct routine BMS audits and assist with quality reviews. Prepare routine flow-related reports (e.g., accuracy checks, delay summaries). Support QPS investigations involving data or flow reliability concerns. Lead or co-lead quality improvement initiatives related to patient flow, bed accuracy, and discharge processes. Perform advanced data analysis (ED boarding times, bed turnover, discharge timeliness, etc.). Develop detailed recommendations for operational and safety improvements and brief leadership. Participate in Root Cause Analyses for flow-related events. Provides basic BMS training for new staff. Maintain quick reference materials and user guides. Develop, deliver, and evaluate comprehensive BMS training for all user groups (EVS, transport, clerks, nurses, supervisors). Lead change management for BMS updates, workflow redesigns, and new policy implementation. Work with units to standardize documentation practices that improve reliability and safety. Assist with implementation of local BMS-related SOPs. Support compliance monitoring activities. Develop and maintain BMS SOPs, workflow standards, job aids, and audit tools. Ensure compliance with VHA directives, Joint Commission standards, infection prevention guidance, and QPS policies. Provide expert input to committees such as Patient Flow Council or QPS Reliability Committee. BMS support during surge events or emergency responses. Facility BMS expert during Incident Command activations. Accurate and timely reports of bed availability and capacity status. Support after-action reviews for data accuracy and flow reliability. Other duties as assigned. 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: Monday to Friday, 0730-1600 Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not available. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not available.</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.