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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
Veterans Health Administration · Muskogee, Oklahoma · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
Open to all U.S. citizens. First consideration goes to current permanent employees of the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System.
Experience: No experience is needed for the entry level, Nurse II. For the higher Nurse III level, you need 1 year of specialized nurse practitioner experience at the Nurse II level. Prior primary care experience is preferred.
Education: You need a master's or doctoral degree, or a post-master's certificate, as a Nurse Practitioner from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE. Applicants still finishing their degree may be referred but cannot be hired until it is complete. Foreign degrees must be validated by an approved evaluation agency.
Licenses and certifications:
- Active, current, full, unrestricted nurse practitioner (APN) license in a U.S. state, territory, or D.C.
- Full, current basic board certification as a Family, Adult, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care, or Gerontology Nurse Practitioner from ANCC, AANPCB, or another recognized certifying body
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 2 days (November 5, 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 application, resume, CV, and supporting documents 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:
- Include a long-form resume or CV, your nurse practitioner certification, and your transcript, since all three are required.
- If you are a current federal employee, attach your most recent non-award SF-50.
- For loan repayment questions, contact the EDRP Coordinator at Kellie.Etchison@va.gov.
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