Nurse (Post Baccalaureate RN Residency Program Manager)

<p>The Nurse Post Baccalaureate RN Residency Program Manager is a nursing leader who executes responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to providing education opportunities with consideration to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering education and training programs for various stakeholders (including nursing students, RNs, new graduate RNs, nurse residents, preceptors, mentors, and other support teams and clinical staff).</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>The Nurse Post Baccalaureate RN Residency Program Manager is a role model in demonstrating excellence in practice, serves as a clinical mentor/preceptor for clinical and administrative staff, consults/collaborates in patient care and research, educates in formal and informal situations. Duties include but not limited to: Assesses the clinical performance, knowledge, skills, and competencies of RN residents/trainees and creates individualized learning plans to support clinical and professional development. Applies principles and theory of adult learning principles, teaching/learning methodologies, program management skills, and critical thinking skills. Provides clinical oversight of RN residents/trainees providing direct patient care. Facilitates academic relationships with schools of nursing on behalf of VAPORHCS. Coordinates and provides programmatic guidance for the RN Entry-to-Practice programs, preceptors, mentors, program faculty, and other program support team members. Collaborates with the nurse managers, staff, educators, and preceptors on program development, implementation, progress, and evaluation. Supports all efforts in achieving and maintaining accreditation of OAA Post-Baccalaureate PB-RNR and the Office of Nursing Services (ONS) Transition to Practice (TTP) programs through the CCNE and/or other accrediting bodies. Develops local content and utilizes national resources in directing, coordinating, and implementing the program curriculum to ensure that it meets the needs of the post-graduate RN, CCNE accreditation, and the ONS and OAA programs. Supports data collection and analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of the Entry-to-Practice programs to support maintaining CCNE accreditation and recruitment, retention, and program satisfaction metrics. Performs duties as primary timekeeper for post-baccalaureate nurse residents. 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-Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: May be 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.