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Blind Rehabilitation Center Licensed Practical Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · West Palm Beach, Florida · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. The announcement is open to the public and also to current federal employees of the VA hiring agency, who are reviewed first.
Experience: For GS-04, six months of experience as an LPN or LVN qualifies you. For GS-05 and GS-06, you must show skills such as giving medications, handling emergencies, and working with patients and families. Experience in acute care, long-term care, or blind rehabilitation is preferred.
Education: You can qualify by graduating from a practical or vocational nursing school approved by the state or accredited by NLNAC when you finished. Military health training accepted by your state licensing body can also count. You may also qualify with a license from a state that does not require school graduation plus at least one year of successful LPN/LVN practice. Only education from accredited schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education counts.
Licenses and certifications:
- Active, full, current, and unrestricted Graduate Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurse license in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or D.C.
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 tomorrow (November 5, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
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 qualifications. Your application, resume, and documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible. The VA also performs pre-employment reference checks.
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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Make sure your resume is clear and specific about your LPN or LVN work, with dates and hours per week, because the VA will verify it.
- Attach a copy of your active nursing license and your transcript if you use education to qualify.
- Submit the full application package, including all required documents, before the closing time of 11:59 PM ET.
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