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Registered Nurse- Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT)
Veterans Health Administration · Newington, Connecticut · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
Open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Also open to current permanent employees of VA Connecticut Healthcare System and eligible health professions trainee graduates, who must send proof such as an SF-50 with the application.
Experience: Preferred, not required: 1 to 3 years of RN experience, including at least 1 year of outpatient experience. Experience is rated for grade levels from Nurse I to Nurse III. For example, Nurse I, Level III needs an associate degree plus 2 years of professional nursing experience, with 1 year at the Level II standard.
Education: You must be a graduate of a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE. An associate degree or diploma in nursing is enough for the entry level. A bachelor's (BSN) or master's (MSN) degree can help you qualify for higher levels. Foreign nursing education needs a formal equivalency validation.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted RN registration from a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or D.C.
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 4, 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 through an online occupational questionnaire. Your nursing experience is judged on five areas: practice, veteran and patient-driven care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice or research. Your answers and resume are verified, and vague answers or missing information 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:
- Your resume must show month and year dates, hours per week, and education with school and conferred date, because your answers will be checked against it.
- Attach your SF-50 if you are a current VA Connecticut permanent employee, a health professions trainee graduate, or a current federal employee.
- Use the 2-page resume limit only if it applies: the announcement says the 2-page resume requirement does not apply here, so a long-form CV is expected.
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