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Registered Nurse Transition To Practice – Resident
Veterans Health Administration · Gainesville, Florida · Closes in 5 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
Open to the public, including U.S. citizens, nationals, and those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Current permanent VA employees and current permanent federal employees of other agencies may also apply. You must be a recent graduate with no previous professional RN experience, and your nursing degree must be conferred within one year before the program start date.
Experience: No prior professional RN experience is needed. This announcement is for recent graduates without previous professional registered nurse experience.
Education: You must be a graduate of an accredited nursing program at the Associate Degree, Diploma, Bachelor's (BSN), or Master's (MSN) level. The school must be accredited by ACEN or CCNE. The degree must be conferred within one year before the program start date. Foreign nursing education needs a formal equivalency validation.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted RN license from a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or D.C., active by March 8, 2027
- Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) temporary appointment may be possible for candidates who do not yet have a license while pursuing one
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 5 days (November 6, 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, including an online questionnaire. Your RN experience is judged on five areas: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, and Evidence-Based Practice/Research. Missing required information may lead to an ineligible rating or a lower rating.
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:
- Include a transcript with your application, since you are qualifying through education, and confirm your degree date falls within one year before the start date.
- Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and send all proof, such as DD-214 or SF-15, or it may not be applied.
- Submit the full application package, including the questionnaire and all required documents, by 11:59 PM ET on 11/06/2026.
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