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Critical Care Registered Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Albany, New York · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
Open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. The clarification also says it is open to current permanent employees of VA Albany HCS and all U.S. citizens.
Experience: No specific years of experience are required for this job, but you are rated on experience in five nursing areas: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, and Evidence-Based Practice/Research. About 1.5 to 2 years of critical care nursing experience is preferred.
Education: You must be a graduate of a professional nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE, or meet the listed bridge program or foreign school rules. Associate, bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees can help you reach higher grade levels. Foreign degrees need a formal equivalency validation to count above associate degree level.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse (RN) license from a U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia
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 6, 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your online questionnaire and documents. Your application and experience 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:
- Use a long-form resume or CV with specific dates, hours, and duties, since the 2-page limit does not apply.
- Submit the EDRP application within four months of appointment if you plan to use the student loan program.
- Show any critical care experience and Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training, since these are preferred.
- Submit your complete application package by 11:59 PM ET on 11/06/2026.
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