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Registered Nurse (Mental Health, Inpatient)
Veterans Health Administration · Bedford, Massachusetts · Closes in 27 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. may apply. Current permanent employees of the VA Bedford Healthcare System, including past, current, or upcoming graduates of VHA Health Trainee Programs, may also apply and must send proof such as an SF-50.
Experience: Your RN experience is rated for quality in five areas: practice, veteran or patient driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts. Preferred: one year of mental health or detox experience.
Education: A degree from an associate (ADN), bachelor's (BSN), or master's (MSN) nursing program accredited by ACEN or CCNE can qualify you. A master's or doctoral degree can qualify you for higher grades, and foreign degrees need a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse license from a U.S. state, territory, 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 27 days (November 30, 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 an online occupational questionnaire based on how well you meet the qualifications, including the five nursing dimensions. Your application and documents will be verified, and reference checks may be done; errors or missing information may lead to an ineligible rating or a lower score.
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:
- If you are a current federal employee, send a recent non-award SF-50 that shows your grade and step.
- Your resume must list month and year dates, hours per week, and your education with conferred dates.
- The 2-page resume limit does not apply to this job, so a full long-form CV is fine.
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