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Registered Nurse- Emergency Department
Veterans Health Administration · Iowa City, Iowa · 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.
This job is open to the public and to current federal employees of the hiring agency. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S., unless qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
Experience: Experience needed depends on the grade you qualify for. For example, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with no nursing experience can qualify for Nurse I, Level II, while Nurse I, Level III requires 2 years of professional nursing experience, one year at the Level II standard. ICU or emergency department experience is preferred but not required, and paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.
Education: You must be a graduate of a professional nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE, or meet the foreign-school rules in the announcement. An Associate Degree or diploma can qualify for the lowest level, and a BSN or higher can qualify for higher levels. Foreign degrees above associate level need a formal equivalency validation from an accepted evaluator.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted nursing registration in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
- Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior Level IV certification
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification
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 through an online questionnaire, and your nursing experience is rated on five dimensions: 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:
- Submit a long-form resume or CV. The 2-page resume limit does not apply to this job.
- Describe your nursing experience clearly and specifically, with dates and hours per week, because the agency will not assume anything.
- If you apply for EDRP, submit that application within four months of appointment, and be ready to keep your life support and trauma certifications current.
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