General Description of Assigned Duties: Functions as an expert clinician in a dual, integrated capacity as the facility's Nursing Excellence Coordinator and High Reliability Organization (HRO) Coordinator, advancing professional nursing practice, quality, and safety outcomes by aligning nursing professional practice models, American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Pathway to Excellence (PTE) and Magnet Recognition program, with facility-wide High Reliability principles.
Preferred Experience: Master's prepared RN with both HRO and Shared Governance experience. Assigned duties but not limited to: The Nurse Registered Nurse - Nursing Excellence & HRO Program Coordinator demonstrates expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes.
Fosters positive professional practice environments by building, supporting, and creating alignments for nursing excellence and steering innovation through collaboration and stakeholder engagement across the facility, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), and enterprise. Requires or authorizes employees to formulate, determine, or influence the polices of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The RN - Nursing Excellence & HRO Coordinator demonstrates participation in strategic planning and alignment of goals at the service, facility, and national level. Applies knowledge of data, information, processes, organizational interactions, skills, and analytical expertise, as well as systems, networks, and information exchange capabilities to document outcome. Assumes leadership in promoting professional development and provides coaching and mentoring to nursing staff.
The RN - Nursing Excellence & HRO Program Coordinator is responsible for program development related to professional governance, EBP, HRO, PI, and professional development; project implementation; oversight of data collection and analysis; designing useful decision support systems; delivering educational experiences; enhancing lifelong learning; and supporting healthcare innovation.
Areas of responsibility include all patient care areas in which nursing services are delivered regardless of organizational alignment. The RN - Nursing Excellence & HRO Program Coordinator executes the position responsibilities that demonstrate effective leadership, detailed planning, professional communication, creative and innovative approaches to the improvement of safety/healthcare program development and possess an ability to organize priorities.
Performs duties directly contributing to high quality and safe patient care within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Duties require the ability to apply specialized principles and practices to ensure a systems approach to healthcare delivery.
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: Mondays-Fridays 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Eligibility: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized This position potentially requires flexibility in schedule and assignments
Jeffery.DuBois2@va.gov · 614-388-7269
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $70726 – $148921/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-24.
This position is open under the 'Fed Excepted' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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