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Registered Nurse – Float Pool (part-time)
Veterans Health Administration · Iron Mountain, Michigan · Closes in 49 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
Open to U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Current permanent employees of the VA are considered first, and then all other candidates.
Experience: Your nursing experience must match a Nurse I, II, or III level, and the level you reach depends on your education. For example, an associate degree plus 2 years of professional nursing can qualify you at Nurse I, Level III. The VA prefers 1 to 2 years of RN experience.
Education: An associate degree or diploma in nursing, a bachelor's (BSN), a master's (MSN), or a doctoral degree can each qualify you at different levels, with more education leading to higher levels. Your nursing school must be accredited by ACEN or CCNE at the time you completed it. Foreign degrees need a formal equivalency validation to count toward a higher level.
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 49 days (December 23, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement, with applicants referred every 8 to 10 days. It may be closed or extended before the listed closing date if needed.
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 online questionnaire and documents. Your nursing experience is judged on five areas: practice, veteran and patient-driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice and research. Missing information or errors can 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:
- Describe your nursing experience clearly and specifically, because the VA will not make assumptions about it.
- Send a transcript if you use education to qualify, and note that the 2-page resume limit does not apply here.
- If you claim veterans' preference, send your DD-214 and select the preference in the questionnaire.
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