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Registered Nurse-Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
Veterans Health Administration · Portland, Oregon · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Non-citizens may be hired only when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
Experience: Your paid or unpaid nursing experience sets your nurse grade level, which is judged on five areas: practice, veteran and patient care, leadership, professional development, and evidence-based practice. For example, Nurse I Level III requires an associate degree plus 2 years of professional nursing experience, with one year at the Nurse I Level II level.
Education: You must graduate from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE, or meet the rules for foreign nursing schools. Your degree level also affects your grade: an associate degree or diploma, a BSN, or a master's or doctoral degree in nursing or a related field.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse license 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 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using your online questionnaire and application package. Your resume, CV, and supporting documents will be verified. Errors or missing information 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:
- Be clear and specific about your nursing experience, because the agency says it will not make assumptions.
- The 2-page resume limit does not apply to this job, so a full long-form resume or CV is fine.
- If you claim veterans' preference, send your DD-214 and SF-15 and claim the preference in the questionnaire.
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