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Registered Nurse-(PACT)-Fort Worth- EDRP Approved
Veterans Health Administration · Fort Worth, Texas · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Competitive service, The public, Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service.
This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Former EDRP participants are not eligible to apply for the loan repayment incentive.
Experience: Your grade depends on your education and nursing experience. For example, Nurse I, Level III needs 2 years of professional nursing experience, and Nurse II needs 2 years of professional nursing at the Nurse I, Level III level with a BSN. Preferred experience includes 5 years of Med/Surg RN work, or 2 years of ER or ICU RN work within the last 3 years, plus 1 year of adult outpatient primary care RN work within the past 3 years.
Education: You must graduate from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE at the time you finished the program. A BSN or higher is preferred, and a master's or doctoral degree may raise your grade. Foreign nursing education needs a formal equivalency validation to count above associate degree level.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or D.C.
- Graduate Nurse Technician exception: a 120-day temporary appointment may be possible while you pursue licensure
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).
This job may close before the closing date once the agency receives 50 applications.
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: Your application and documents will be checked for qualifications and eligibility, then rated on how well you meet them. Your nursing experience is judged on five areas: practice, veteran and patient-driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice or research. Errors, omissions, or missing documents 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:
- Submit your EDRP application within 4 months of appointment, and contact vhaedrpprogramsupport@va.gov with questions.
- Describe your nursing experience clearly with dates, hours, and duties at each grade level, since the agency will not assume experience.
- Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and send DD-214 and SF-15 documents if they apply.
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