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Inpatient Mental Health Registered Nurse-Unit 23B
Veterans Health Administration · Brockton, Massachusetts · Closes in 5 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.

U.S. citizens can apply, and so can current permanent employees of the VA Boston Healthcare System and past, current, or upcoming graduates of VHA Health Trainee Programs. Applicants who are current employees must send proof, such as an SF-50.

Experience: For the Nurse II level, you need a bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) plus 2 years of professional nursing experience at the Nurse I, Level 3 standard. Your experience is judged on five areas: practice, veteran and patient driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice.

Education: A BSN with 2 years of professional nursing experience qualifies. A master's in nursing (MSN) with 1 year of specialized nursing experience also qualifies. A doctoral degree in nursing with no professional nursing experience qualifies too. Your nursing program must be accredited by ACEN or CCNE.

Licenses and certifications:

Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse license from a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, 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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Long-form resume or CV showing job titles, duties, month and year dates, and hours per week Most recent non-award SF-50 from the current calendar year if you are a current federal employee Transcripts if you use education to qualify Copy of your nursing license if requested DD-214 if you claim veterans' preference SF-15 and VA disability letter if they apply to you Cover letter if needed

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 5 days (November 9, 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 through the online questionnaire and your documents. Your RN experience is reviewed on five dimensions, and missing or unclear details can lower your rating because the VA does not assume your experience.

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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:

If you want loan repayment help, submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment.
Your resume does not have to be 2 pages, but it must show dates by month and year and hours worked per week for each job.
If you are a current VA Boston employee or a health trainee graduate, attach your SF-50 with your application.

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