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Registered Nurse (Ascend, PTSD Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program)
Veterans Health Administration · Aurora, Colorado · Closes in 5 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
This job is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Current federal employees of the hiring agency may also apply under the internal part of the announcement. Veterans' preference applies when qualifications are approximately equal.
Experience: Your experience must match a nurse grade level, such as Nurse I, Level III, which requires an associate degree plus 2 years of professional nursing experience, with one year at the Nurse I, Level II level. Your experience is rated on five areas: practice, veteran or patient-driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice, and mental health nursing experience is preferred.
Education: A nursing degree can qualify you: an associate degree or diploma in nursing for Nurse I, Level I, a bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) for Nurse I, Level II, and a master's or doctoral degree for higher levels. You must graduate from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE, and degrees must come from schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Foreign nursing degrees are not counted as related degrees.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse (RN) 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.
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, using an online questionnaire. Your experience will be checked for quality, and references may be contacted. 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 that shows dates, hours per week, and specific nursing duties.
- Describe any mental health nursing experience clearly, since it is preferred for this job.
- If you want EDRP loan repayment, apply within four months of appointment and contact the EDRP coordinator, Anthony Salas, at anthony.salas3@va.gov.
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