Registered Nurse - Sterile Processing Services Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Registered Nurse (QA RN) in Sterile Processing Services

Join our team as a Quality Assurance (QA) Registered Nurse (RN) in Sterile Processing Services! Are you an experienced Registered Nurse with a passion for quality improvement and patient care? We are looking for a dedicated QA RN to demonstrate leadership and creativity in enhancing quality-of-care outcomes.

Responsibilities include:

• Collects and analyzes data to monitor staff compliance with policies, directives, and standards.
• Provides detailed reports on trends.
• Provides direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering a comprehensive quality assurance and management program area.
• Participates actively in various facility councils, committees, and workgroups.
• Utilizes specialized principles and practices of healthcare management to support and direct our health care delivery system.

Preferred experience includes:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) or higher education.
• 1-2 years of recent Quality Nursing, Nursing Education experience in Sterile Processing or Procedural Cares.
• 2-3 years experience in (2) of the following areas: Sterile Processing Leadership, Sterile Processing Education, Sterile Processing Training, Sterile Processing Quality Management, Operating Room (OR), Surgery, and/or Endoscopy.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).
• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory.
• Monday-Friday; 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Alternate tour of duty may be required.
• Current, valid and unrestricted state-issued drivers license is required. Must provide a clean driving record report from the DMV during onboarding.

Requirements include:

• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:

• English Language Proficiency.
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited 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); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program.
• 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 Scope, Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates, and if appropriate, the level within a grade.