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Registered Nurse- Outpatient Mental Health (Nashville)
Veterans Health Administration · Nashville, Tennessee · Closes in 6 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. Non-citizens may be appointed only when qualified citizens cannot be recruited. Current VA Tennessee Valley employees get first consideration.
Experience: Your experience is judged by grade level. For example, Nurse II requires a bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) plus 2 years of professional nursing at the Nurse I, Level III level. Mental health outpatient experience is preferred.
Education: You must graduate from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE, or meet the foreign-school rules in the announcement. Associate, bachelor's (BSN) and master's (MSN) degrees can each qualify at different grade levels. Foreign degrees do not count as related degrees for master's-level qualification.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, or D.C.
- One full and unrestricted license from any U.S. state or territory
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 6 days (November 9, 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, using an online questionnaire that covers five nursing dimensions: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, and Evidence-Based Practice/Research. Unclear or missing information, or errors, may 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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- If you want EDRP student loan repayment, submit the EDRP application within four months of appointment. Questions can go to VISN9HREDRP@va.gov.
- Clearly describe your outpatient mental health experience in your resume and questionnaire, since it is preferred and your experience will be verified.
- If you claim education or veterans' preference, gather your transcripts or DD-214 and SF-15 before you apply, since missing documents can lower your rating.
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