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Registered Nurse – Cancer Care Navigator
Veterans Health Administration · Nashville, Tennessee · 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 the public and to current federal employees of the VA. You must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S.
Experience: Required nursing experience depends on your degree and the nurse level it must match, such as Nurse I Level II or Level III, with 0 to 2 years needed. Experience in oncology nurse navigation or care coordination is strongly preferred.
Education: A bachelor's (BSN) or master's (MSN) degree in nursing can qualify you with less or no experience. The nursing school must be accredited by ACEN or CCNE, or be a foreign school with a current, full, active, and unrestricted nursing registration.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted RN registration in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or DC
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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your questionnaire and resume. Your nursing experience is checked for quality in five areas, and references may be checked. Missing required information may make you ineligible or lower your rating.
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:
- Your resume must show month and year for each job and school, plus your RN license number and expiration date.
- Describe any oncology navigation or care coordination work clearly, since it is strongly preferred.
- Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and upload your DD-214 if you qualify.
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