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Inpatient Mental Health Registered Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Albuquerque, New Mexico · Closes in 10 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
The job is open to the public and to current federal employees of the hiring agency. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Experience: Preferred: 1 to 2 years of clinical nursing experience and 1 to 2 years working with behavioral health patients. Higher grades also depend on specific nursing experience, shown in the grade table in the announcement.
Education: Graduate of a professional nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE. Higher grades may accept a master's or doctoral degree in nursing in place of some experience. Foreign nursing degrees need a formal equivalency validation to count above associate level.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, 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 in 10 days (November 13, 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, using the online questionnaire and your documents. Your RN experience is judged on five areas: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, and Evidence-Based Practice/Research. Unclear or unsupported claims may not be credited, and errors or missing information may lower your rating.
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:
- Describe your nursing and behavioral health experience clearly and specifically, since the agency verifies it.
- If you are a current VA Albuquerque employee, submit your SF-50 or you will not get first consideration.
- Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and attach your DD-214 if you qualify.
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