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Advanced Practice Nurse, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
Veterans Health Administration · Salt Lake City, Utah · Closes in 330 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
This job is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. The announcement also lists an internal option for current permanent VHA employees, who must include a recent SF-50 showing their permanent status.
Experience: No experience is required for the entry level, Nurse Anesthetist II. To reach the Nurse Anesthetist III level, you need one year of specialized APN (CNA) experience equal to the II level, meaning work as a certified nurse anesthetist.
Education: You need a master's or doctoral degree in nurse anesthesia. The nursing anesthesia program must have been accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education Programs (COA) when you completed it.
Licenses and certifications:
- Active, current, full and unrestricted nursing license in a U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia
- Current certification from the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA), or an equivalent COA-recognized certification
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 330 days (September 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
The first cutoff for applications is 11/16/26, and after that applications are considered weekly, so applying before the first cutoff may improve your chances.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications, using the online occupational questionnaire. Your application, resume, and supporting documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Make your long-form resume or CV clear and specific about your anesthesia experience, since the announcement says it will not assume experience.
- If you use your education to qualify, include a transcript from a COA-accredited program.
- Current VHA employees must attach an SF-50 dated within the past year, or they will not be considered internal.
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