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Registered Nurse – Informaticist
Veterans Health Administration · Fargo, North Dakota · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
Open to the public and to current federal employees of the hiring agency. You must be a U.S. citizen or national, or owe allegiance to the U.S.
Experience: Your experience is measured against nurse grade levels, Nurse I through Nurse III, and must meet the job's five nursing dimensions. Preferred but not required: an MSN plus 2 years of nursing informatics experience.
Education: You can qualify through a graduate of an accredited professional nursing school (accredited by ACEN or CCNE). Degree levels, such as an ADN, BSN, MSN, or doctorate, count toward grade level along with experience. Foreign degrees are not creditable as related degrees. Board certification in informatics is preferred.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse license in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or D.C.
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 tomorrow (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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, and your experience and documents will be verified. Missing or unclear information 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:
- Make your long-form resume or CV clear and specific about dates, duties, and hours, since the agency will not assume anything.
- Claim veterans' preference in the online questionnaire if it applies, and attach the required proof.
- Answer every questionnaire question and upload all required documents by the closing date, because missing items can cost you points.
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