boywithacoin BSN

boywithacoin has 8 years experience as a BSN and specializes in Care Coordination, General Surgery, Oncology.

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   VA Nurse Pay Scales

   boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   It's the pay system. From the OPM website: "Some pay plan codes, such as AD, may be used by any agency with an independent authority to administratively determine the rates of pay for any group or category of employees. Each agency must follow its ...
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   Need help understanding VA step increases

   boywithacoin replied to ADMRK's topic in Government

   The policy is that to advance to Nurse II you need to have a BSN, and to advance to Nurse III you need to have an MSN, but you can currently advance with an academic requirement waiver by one degree. I.e. if you have an AS, you can get an academic re...
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   Notice of Schedule Changes

   boywithacoin replied to German1968's topic in Government

   Google "Hours of Duty and Leave VA" and you should get a link to view VHA Directive 5011/3. "c. When tours of duty must necessarily vary from the normal tour, employees will be given the opportunity of discussing their assignment and of having t...
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   GS position No part time or per diem option?

   boywithacoin replied to blueskies1's topic in Government

   Pretty sure that AD is the plan that part-time nurses at the VA get hired under, but a quick search on USAJOBS tells me that there are agencies that do hire part-time on the GS scale: IHS and HHS being examples. Dunno that that's very helpful to you,...
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   VA proficiency

   boywithacoin replied to VA Nurse1's topic in Government

   All your other points aside, would appreciate if you found other ways to express yourself than appropriating indigenous roles and using the term "Indian" for indigenous peoples.
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   VA Nurse Pay Scales

   boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   Your pay should match the current year's pay table. If the scales were just updated on 5/26/2023, it may be that pay admin is behind in updating salaries in the pay system. That has happened a few times to me over the years, more so since they centra...
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   VA PACT RN Question

   boywithacoin replied to carnnurse08616's topic in Government

   I am not a PACT RN, but as the saying goes, if you've been to one VA, you've been to one VA. Meaning your role as a PACT RN at your local VA may look different from someone else who might reply here. At my VA, I think the PACT NCMs were able to telew...
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   VA Nurse Pay Scales

   boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   I don't understand how/why my answers keep showing up earlier in the thread instead of below the comments I'm responding to. Does it show up like that for everyone else?
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   VA Nurse Pay Scales

   boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   If I understand correctly, you mean Nurse 1, level 2, in which case it's likely that you would start at level 2 regardless if you have a BSN. I believe I've commented elsewhere in this thread that I was hired at a step higher than the other new grads...
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

    For any promotion from one level to the next, you are placed at the steps that corresponds to just greater than the step that is 2 steps above your current step. Does that make sense? so example is if you're a nurse II step 8 and your salary is ...
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    Raise at VA After Graduating

    boywithacoin replied to psichi's topic in Government

    Also, you can only advance in succession, so if you are Nurse I, you have to get to Nurse II before you can get Nurse III. And again, that's regardless of education (and sometimes experience).
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

    It is not so cut and dry with academic degrees and RN levels at the VA. Grade 1 = Nurse 1, Grade 2 = Nurse 2, and Grade 3 = Nurse 3. If you are a beginning nurse with an associates or BSN, or new to the VA and don't "promote" yourself well enough to ...
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    Worth It? CA to OR

    boywithacoin replied to anm's topic in Oregon

    I went to nursing school at San Jose State, then moved back to my homestate/town of Portland, OR to start my nursing career. I haven't lived in SJ for almost 4 years, but many of my classmates started their careers there. So, while I can't say how th...
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government

    2080 hours a year (40hrs/wk, 52wks/yr)
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    VA Nurse Salary

    boywithacoin replied to kclindsay's topic in Government

    Huh? That's strange My facility uses 2080 hours. So did the last VA I got paid at.