Your steps to apply
Registered Nurse- Outpatient Mental Health
Veterans Health Administration · Des Moines, Iowa · Closed
Sign in to save your progress. Free, with just your email. You can read all the steps without an account.
This job is closed. The steps stay here, but you can no longer apply.
1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
Open to the public and to U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Current federal employees of the hiring agency can also apply, since the job is listed as internal to an agency.
Experience: Experience is used to set your grade, and it must be professional nursing experience matched to the grade level. Two years of mental health experience is listed as preferred, not required.
Education: A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is listed as preferred. Higher grades can also be reached with a master's (MSN) or doctoral degree, depending on the grade. The nursing school must be accredited by ACEN or CCNE.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in 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
Closed (October 31, 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, and your application and documents will be verified. Your RN experience is rated on five areas: practice, Veteran/patient driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice/research. 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:
- Send a long-form resume or CV. The 2-page resume limit does not apply to this job.
- If you want the Education Debt Reduction Program, apply within four months of starting, and check eligibility first with the EDRP coordinator.
- To claim veterans' preference, select it in the questionnaire and attach your DD-214 with dates and character of service.
Kandidatu is an independent website: only the official posting counts. Read it before you apply.