Ambulatory Care PACU Nurse Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Ambulatory Care PACU Nurse Manager (clinical expert and nursing leader)

• Focus: Direct patient care supervision, nursing process accountability, and patient experience across the continuum of care

Description

Ambulatory Care PACU Nurse Manager functions as a clinical expert and is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing or supervising direct patient care. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care using age-specific components, while coordinating patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction. Leads interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative process improvement to improve outcomes and the Veteran experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver nursing care using the full nursing process (assess, plan, implement, evaluate)

• Lead care coordination efforts to improve timeliness, resolve issues, address negative trends, and respond to environment-of-care concerns

• Provide patient advocacy by protecting health, safety, and rights of patient populations beyond the immediate setting

• Lead identification, analysis, and resolution of ethical issues impacting patients, caregivers, and staff

• Promote high reliability principles and ICARE values to improve consistency of care delivery and patient outcomes

• Equip staff with tools for competent care and foster accountability for high-quality, cost-effective outcomes

• Maintain compliance with accreditation, regulatory standards, directives, policies, and SOPs

• Provide informal constructive feedback to peers and share knowledge to support safe, quality nursing care

• Contribute to care delivery model and environmental design to support evidence-based, accessible, affordable, and equitable care

• Participate in strategy planning and align nursing/clinical objectives with organizational strategic outcomes

• Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes; maintain documented program/service outcomes

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential performance awards

• Paid time off: 50 days/year (26 annual leave, 13 sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays)

• Retirement: traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% contributions

• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many can carry into retirement)

• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7:30am–4:00pm (subject to facility needs); Telework not available; virtual position

• Relocation/Recruitment incentives and PCS: not authorized