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Practical Nurse (Operating Room)
Military Treatment Facilities under DHA · Tacoma, Washington · Closes in 6 days
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Who can apply: The public.
Open to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Selection is subject to Department of Defense restrictions for displaced employees, and veterans and military spouses are considered along with all other candidates.
Experience: You need one year of nursing experience in a hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or other supervised patient care setting. The work must show knowledge of body structure and sterile technique, such as setting up operating room equipment, monitoring vital signs during surgery, or assisting surgeons. The announcement says this matches work at the next lower grade, GS-5.
Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current license as a practical or vocational nurse in a U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia, or proof you have applied for one
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Red Cross or American Heart Association
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 6 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: Your resume, questionnaire answers, and supporting documents will be reviewed to see if you meet the listed qualifications. If your application is incomplete or your experience appears inflated, you may lose consideration.
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:
- Your resume must be two pages or less and list hours per week for each job, or your application may be marked incomplete.
- Upload a copy of your nursing license or your license number, or you will be rated ineligible.
- Clearly describe operating room, surgical, and vital sign monitoring tasks, because only experience can qualify you for this job.
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