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Nurse – PACT Care Manager
Veterans Health Administration · Eugene, Oregon · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Veterans' preference applies when qualifications are approximately equal.
Experience: Your experience must match the grade you apply for. For Nurse II, you need a BSN plus 2 years of professional nursing at the Nurse I, Level 3 level. For Nurse III, you need an MSN plus 2 years of specialized nursing experience, one year at the Nurse II level.
Education: You must graduate from a professional nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE when the program was completed. A master's or doctoral degree can qualify you for higher grades. Foreign degrees above associate level need a formal equivalency validation.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted nursing registration 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 4, 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 nursing experience is also checked for quality across five areas: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, and Evidence/Based Practice/Research. Errors or missing information can 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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- If you plan to use EDRP, submit your application within four months of appointment.
- Describe your nursing experience clearly and specifically, with dates and duties, because the agency will not assume anything.
- Include every required document in your package, such as your long-form resume and transcripts if you use education, or your rating may be affected.
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