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Registered Nurse (Risk Manager/Quality Management Specialist)
Veterans Health Administration · Leeds, Massachusetts · 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 the public and to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Current permanent employees of VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System and graduates of VHA Health Professions Trainee programs can also apply, but must send proof such as an SF-50.
Experience: The announcement lists experience by nurse grade level, but it does not say which grade this job is set at. Preferred experience is 1 to 2 years of quality management or risk management work.
Education: Graduate of a professional nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE (an associate degree, bachelor's (BSN) or master's (MSN) in nursing), plus current, full, active, unrestricted nursing registration. A BSN is preferred. Foreign schools need a formal degree equivalency validation to get credit.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, unrestricted nursing registration in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico or DC
- Valid, unrestricted driver's license
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 through an occupational questionnaire. Your resume and answers will be checked, and 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, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- List every job on your resume with job title, duties, month and year start and end dates, and hours per week
- If you are a current federal employee, attach a non-award SF-50 from this calendar year, since award SF-50s are not accepted
- Send all required documents by 11:59 PM ET on the closing date, because you will not be contacted about missing documents
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