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Registered Nurse (O-2/O-3/O-4 Billet) Non-Supervisory
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Miami, Florida · Closes in 4 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Only current USPHS Commissioned Corps officers and USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates can apply, and civilians are not eligible. You must be a U.S. citizen. If you do not have a USPHS commission, you must start the USPHS Commissioned Corps application process before you apply to this job.
Experience: Experience needed depends on the officer level (billet). O-2 requires zero to two years of professional nursing experience. O-3 requires two to four years. O-4 requires at least four years, including two years as a Registered Nurse II or Clinical Nurse Intermediate.
Education: For O-2, you must be a Bachelor prepared Registered Nurse. For O-4, you must be a Bachelor or Masters prepared Registered Nurse, with a Masters preferred. Your nursing license must come from a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or a U.S. territory. Education must come from a school accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current professional registered nurse license from a state, DC, Puerto Rico, or U.S. territory
- Current CPR/BLS certification
- USPHS Basic Readiness status
- Professional certification appropriate to current job specialty
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 4 days (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 complete an occupational questionnaire on USAJOBS. HR will review your resume and documents to check minimum qualifications, and the best-qualified applicants will go to the hiring manager. You may be interviewed at the hiring authority's discretion. Missing required information may result in an ineligible rating or a lower overall rating.
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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Complete the occupational questionnaire and click Submit My Answers at the end, or your application may not go through.
- Send every required document, including your Certificate of Investigation from eOPF, because missing items can make you ineligible.
- Applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 11/05/2026, and paper or email submissions are not accepted.
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