Job Title: Registered Nurse Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Specialist

Location: Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN
Job Type: Full-time, Onsite

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Position Summary:

The Registered Nurse CDI Specialist will serve as the Clinical Documentation Integrity Registered Nurse Advisor (CDI RNA), providing advanced nursing and clinical expertise to enhance documentation quality for inpatient and outpatient services. This role supports clinical documentation improvement (CDI) strategies, ensuring accurate, ethical, and compliant health record documentation in alignment with VA, CMS, and Joint Commission standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the CDI Nursing Advisor and clinical subject matter expert for documentation issues.

• Apply nursing process to review clinical data for validation, quality trends, and documentation opportunities.

• Collaborate with providers, CDIS, and HIM staff to improve documentation accuracy through verbal, written, or electronic queries.

• Develop SOPs, workflows, turnaround times, and training materials to improve documentation integrity.

• Assist in the design and execution of educational seminars, workshops, and provider training on documentation practices.

• Guide providers in using SNOMED-CT and updating problem lists aligned with ICD-10-CM standards.

• Conduct concurrent and retrospective chart reviews to clarify clinical documentation, including ambiguous admission orders.

• Contribute to provider education on clinical indicators and support facility newsletter articles or educational content.

• Assist in quality reviews including mortality, CMS measures, and code reconciliation activities.

• Engage in CDI-related escalations, reconciliations, and ensure collaboration between coders and CDI team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Active, unrestricted license as a Registered Nurse (RN).

• Minimum 2 years of CDI experience in a hospital setting.

• CDI certification from AHIMA, ACDIS, or AAPC.

• Experience with clinical documentation in trauma, teaching, federal, or tertiary care hospitals preferred.

• Strong knowledge of CMS guidelines, VHA Directives, The Joint Commission standards, ICD-10-CM, and SNOMED-CT.

• Excellent communication, analytical thinking, and education facilitation skills.

Arrow ARC supports Veterans Health Administration facilities and offices across the U.S. with health care staffing and program support via the 10-year Integrated Critical Staffing Program (ICSP). We provide staffing solutions to address critical shortages in VHA medical facilities caused by turnover, recruitment issues, seasonal needs, surges or emergencies.

Arrow is a certified Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business joint venture between Artemis ARC and Aptive Resources, two award-winning companies that share an agile, mission-focused, results driven approach in the federal sector.​ Arrow provides management consulting services and specializes in working with federal government agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs and Office of Personnel Management.​

Aptive is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parental status, veteran status, age, disability, or any other protected class.

Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are highly encouraged to apply.