Need help finding Title 38 pay schedules? I stumbled across this today for anyone who needs it: Title 38 Pay Schedules

If you know your VA's station number you can look up the pay scale in the first section or you can look up the state in the section below.

Grade 01 = Nurse I

Grade 02 = Nurse II and so on

Nurse I, Level 2 pay starts at Step 03 and Level 3 starts at Step 05.

As a new grad with a BSN, I started as a Nurse I, Level 2, Step 05.

Hope this helps!

I don't know when they asked for reconsideration or if they asked for a specific salary. Reading that thread may help with that info. I would probably ask the person who made the offer how the salary was determined and let him/her know you feel it is low. Ask if it is negotiable and whether you can provide more info on your experience to ask for reconsideration of a higher salary.

pfchang said:
I don't know what your background or certifications are but unless things are directly related to RN experience , VA usually does not care. A Bachelor's or Master's in a field unrelated to healthcare mean nothing for most RN jobs. A re-evaluation of salary and boarding will definitely take more time and won't happen in just a couple days. The board has to meet to review it, if they even decide to review and consider higher salary.

Thanks, doesn't seem worth it to go up one grade.

Specializes in CNL.

Do these pay scales refer to base pay? Or do they include night/weekend/holiday differential?

ne0ven0m said:
Do these pay scales refer to base pay? Or do they include night/weekend/holiday differential?

They don't include differentials.

Specializes in CNL.
tabisadelta said:
They don't include differentials.

Apparently I'm severely (10k per year) underpaid, lol :dead:

Guess I'll head over to the career fair at my VA next week.

night is 10% of hourly weekend is 25% and yes if u work a weekend or night on the weekend it is 35%.

Do you know any that you work with that has done or has examples that they had to submit to the VA on how to do the nine dimensions of nursing practice?

Pairofshues said:
Thanks jeckrn!!

I noticed you said 2nd and 3rd shift, so do the nurses in the hospital setting work 8 hour shifts or is it 12 hour shifts?

....I will be on a med/surg/tele floor at the dallas VA hospital.

Curious how you like the job and how long from start to finish did it take to get in?

Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.

When I started in Erie back in '05 it was a couple of months from start to finish. I am returning to the VA after my time on active duty (had to resign because was on AD greater than 5 years) and it took around a month and a half for the tentative offer and still waiting for the VA to schedule my physical etc.

I'm curious, did you buy back any of your active duty time and add to your VA retirement?

Specializes in MedSurg.

Hi, I just got accepted into a BSN accelerated program and am interested in working for the VA. I know that they take into account paid/unpaid experience including volunteer work. How do they determine the number of years of experience I have? Do they just calculate the number of hours we have and equate that to years assuming full time work at 40 hours per week? Also, right now I'm an administrative intern at a medical practice but this practice is house calls so I don't have a lot of direct patient contact. Would they still count this as experience? I mostly work on ordering and obtaining labs and medical records, ordering x-rays, answer calls from patients/ POAs, document narcotic scripts and just started learning intake. Thank you!

Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.

Are you working as a RN now? If not the time will not count.

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