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Registered Nurse – Clinic/Procedural
Veterans Health Administration · Omaha, Nebraska · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. The job is open to the public and also to current employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Experience: Experience is measured against nurse grade levels, and it must be professional nursing work. For example, Nurse I, Level III requires 2 years of professional nursing with an associate degree, or a BSN plus 1 year. Preferred: 1-2 years of clinical experience and 1-2 years of RN case management experience.
Education: You must graduate from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE, or meet the foreign school rules listed in the announcement. Education can also qualify you in place of experience at some levels: an associate degree or diploma, a bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN), or a master's or doctoral degree in nursing.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted RN registration in 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 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: You are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, including five nursing areas: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, and Evidence-Based Practice/Research. Your application and 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:
- Attach a long-form resume or CV that clearly shows your nursing dates, duties, and hours.
- If you claim veterans' preference, select it in the questionnaire and attach your DD-214.
- Only list degrees from schools accredited by a U.S. Department of Education-recognized body.
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