Registered Nurse - Patient Safety Manager

Quick Facts

Role: Registered Nurse – Patient Safety Manager.
Primary mission: Lead and implement patient safety programs, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement for complex patient care.

Description

As an advanced clinician, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate delivery of care while demonstrating leadership and creative approaches to managing complex patient care. The role includes leading patient safety policies and activities, building a culture of safety, ensuring compliance with VHA handbooks/directives and accreditation standards, and completing pre-survey readiness/self-assessment documentation. You will also implement corrective actions based on deficiencies or site visit findings and improve veteran/patient outcomes through patient-safety culture data and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Implement patient safety policies and activities developed by national and external organizations (e.g., NCPS, The Joint Commission, OIG).
• Serve as the facility key person for patient safety systems and safety culture promotion.
• Train and coordinate patient safety activities with infection control, risk managers, and quality managers.
• Lead nursing care for patients with complex needs using the nursing process aligned with ANA Standards of Nursing Practice.
• Guide staff planning, decision-making, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Provide guidance and oversight for Patient Safety Programs to meet VHA and accreditation requirements; complete self-assessment/pre-survey readiness documents.
• Implement corrective actions and sustain compliance after deficiencies or site visit findings (VISN/TJC/OIG).
• Resolve patient-driven experience issues (care coordination, timeliness, dissatisfaction themes, environment of care concerns).
• Use evidence-based practice/research to improve outcomes.
• Leverage patient safety culture data to support process improvement for identified patient safety risks.
• Improve communication effectiveness and collaborate across teams, including conferences and interdisciplinary planning.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, and potential performance awards
• Paid Time Off: 50 days per year (26 annual leave, 13 sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays)
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401(k) with up to 5% VA contribution
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many programs can continue into retirement)

Licensure & Schedule

• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any U.S. state or territory
• Schedule: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday–Friday (subject to facility needs)
• Telework: Not available; Virtual: not a virtual position