OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans?

Duties

The Cardiology Program Manager for Nursing, Ambulatory Care is a registered, professional nurse; he/she is accountable for the administrative management, supervision, and evaluation of veteran-centric invasive and non-invasive cardiac care, ensuring multidisciplinary collaboration, oversight of nursing quality practices, and collection, analysis, and presentation of data and patient outcomes. This is a non-supervisory assignment that includes professional and highly technical work including responsibility for development, evaluation, and quality oversight of the Cardiology program. The Nurse will report directly to the Cardiology Unit Manager and will actively collaborate with the leaders in multiple areas including, but not limited to, Cardiology, National Program Office, Medicine, CV Surgery, Surgery, Quality, Patient Care Services, Chief of Staff, Fiscal, and Community Service. This position provides oversight in current Cardiology nursing practices, quality outcomes, oversight of the National Reporting system, and ensures adherence to applicable VHA Directives and policies related to Cardiac care. The Cardiology Program Manager is responsible for clinical, administrative, and quality-related services offered by the service to ensure that the sections are following local and VHA standards and policies. He/she is responsible for policy development, tracking, and evaluation of Cardiology service needs in relation to Cardiac Catheterization, Electrophysiology, Structural Heart, and non-invasive Cardiology. He/she recognizes and utilizes the skills, knowledge, and contributions of each team member. He/she is responsible for the development and implementation of performance improvement, metric tracking, quality data and reporting compliance oversight, patient safety, utilization review, multi-service collaboration, and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development. He/she will act as a collaborator and liaison between all pertinent parties to ensure seamless and evidence-based Veteran care across all Cardiac procedure staff. He/she is responsible for the auditing and evaluating the effectiveness of the Cardiology program and assuring effective/efficient resources/processes are maintained. He/she accesses the service to optimize cost effectiveness (budget) and productivity. He/she determines the continuing education needs of staff and assures appropriate resources to meet those needs. He/she collaborates with the business office, Cardiology Leadership, and Fiscal service to ensure accurate reporting of clinical, administrative and workload data. He/she has the responsibility for implementation of the vision, mission, philosophy, and core values for the organization. As a Nurse Program Manager, he/she participates in the formulation of overall service/section policies and procedures, goals, objectives, strategic planning, cost effectiveness, and quality monitoring. WORK SCHEDULE: Full time

Requirements

Qualifications

Preferred Experience: Quality management, Staff Education Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The approving official may authorize a waiver of the requirement for ACEN or CCNE accreditation of any degree in nursing provided the college or university has regional accreditation from an accrediting body recognized by the Department of Education at the time of the candidate's graduation and the composite qualifications of the applicant warrant such consideration. In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of current, full, active and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement of graduation from an approved school of professional nursing. OR The completion of coursework equivalent to a nursing degree in a MSN Bridge Program that qualifies for professional nursing registration constitutes the completion of an approved course of study of professional nursing. Students should submit the certificate of professional nursing to sit for the NCLEX to the VA along with a copy of the MSN transcript. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6) OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing. Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Grade Determinations: The following criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates, and if appropriate, the level within a grade: Nurse II - A BSN with approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR ADN or Diploma in Nursing and a Bachelor's degree in a related field and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Master's degree in nursing or related field with a BSN and approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Doctoral degree in nursing or meets basic requirements for appointment and has doctoral degree in a related field with no additional nursing practice/experience required. Nurse III - Master's degree in nursing or related field with BSN and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Doctoral degree and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience. Note regarding MSN degrees: If your MSN was obtained via a Bridge Program that qualifies for professional nursing registration, a BSN is not required. Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-6 Nurse Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. Physical Requirements: This position involves considerable amount of standing, walking, stooping, bending, reaching, lifting, and turning. It requires restraining confused clients, repositioning patients, assisting with transfers from wheel chairs/stretchers and transporting them to other departments or facilities. Mechanical devices are available and are required to be used for heavy or difficult to lift clients. The work may involve pushing or lifting in excess of 50 pounds and going up and down flights of stairs. The position requires visual and auditory acuity at a level to provide safe and effective nursing care. The position requires the nurse to work for periods of time with arms above shoulder level or with neck in a fully flexed or extended position and the ability to physically control or defend against emotionally ill clients. The position also requires ability to work on computers for extended periods of time.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center 1481 West Tenth Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 US
• Name: Christopher Sorum
• Phone: 317-734-7250
• Email: [email protected]