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There is allot of confusion and anxiety on this topic so I'm writing up what I know, based on my experience. I was hired on as a nurse 2 and was able to promote to nurse 3 at the VA. Here are tips to writing your VA Nurse Proficiency. Background...

Promotions: (Examples of things you can do that would meet a Nurse 3 criteria are at the bottom). ->To be promoted you need to pass all Dimensions: Practice, Ethics, Resource Utilization, Education/career development, collaboratio...

When you transfer they don't board you again, so you stay at your current step. However your pay may change. I went from a expensive state to a cheaper one and my step was the same but pay decreased. I know some who went from our VA to sandiego and ...

Few VA have pt jobs, this has to do with the union contracts, but usually they are flexible with your schedule, 4 10s or going to 12s as examples, I know many nurses inaccommodate. (I work at a VA) right now and their managers were able to move their...

It is better to put everything you have than to omit anything, you Def won't get points for missing information. Better ti have something there. They may find the information in the other sections you submit, there's usually, overlap with examples, b...

Do you mean as a new hire or as a proficiency rating? As a new hire you can't appeal it's take it or leave it, as a current employee your manager can help you start the appeal process, second consideration goes back to the board. Third consideration ...

I have no idea but my thinking is no because your payroll is attached to another VA hospital as is your credentialing.

Board member here, you can't be hired as a 3 without MSN.

You will need an MSN to get a 3 unless your facility supports a degree waiver.

You would get a nurse 2, you need a masters to be hired on as a 3.

It really is easier to see opportunities for improvement in education roles or quality or managment, I was only able to get my 3 when I became an educator and suddenly my eyes opened to all the things in could do to improve practice. I've seen floor ...

Hey, for this one you will need to actually add references like a college paper. For my 3 I am an educator so it was easy to get but for research section: researched ways to improve adult learning to improve my program, I put all the references that ...

Can you move to a program coordinator or manager or educator role? Those are all nurse 3 level roles. I've promoted people in all those categories as well as for projects that resulted in a change of practice or increased quality of care (restrains r...

You can use the degree waiver still but you need to meet all the requirements to be rates at the performance.kevel of a nurse 2. If they rate you as meeting nurse 2 then they can request promotion by edu waiver.

Hey I wrote a long post on how to write your proficiency for nurse 2 and 3 in this forum with examples for each section!

Good job! So many people don't do this when getting hired and the pay difference is huge

I've also been seeing confusion on the VA nurse Pay scales. https://www.VA.gov/OHRM/Pay/ Go here, click Nurse Locality Pay Schedules. You can Google the "Station number" of the VA location you are applying for, then click the applicable link. Y...

Kratom is interesting in that at low levels is a stimulant and I think and higher levels more of a pain effect. Interesting but unfortunately potentially addicting and there isn't good standardized information about it. Most of the guys I worked with...

Kratom is now considered like an opiate and addiction to it is treated with suboxone and you can go into opiate withdrawals that last longer than heroin or oxy. I'm not surprised they dinged you for using that. Not many people realize this who use kr...

Lab tech, chemistry tech, radiology tech, pharmacy tech, audiology or prosthetics fitter, pt or ot assistants are some that come to mind.

A friend of mine her cousin killed himself in school and she failed out in a similar story to yours. She had her lpn and worked in that capacity until last year when she got her RN. She worked as an lpn for nearly 10 years. Take your time, see if you...

There is no way any BON or school is going to grant you a nursing license without completing med surg. You need to finish and pass medsurg to sit for a license, that is part of nursing core curriculums.

All nurses are reviewed by the board automatically upon hire, you can try to request a redo but at my VA they don't grant redos, not sure if that's a national standard or not. ? I do know that the board is very critical of how things are writte...

Hi, you can Google VA nurse 2 proficiency examples online, something should come up. The VA will offer you more pay for the experience you have. Try to show examples of how you have done thing that impact the entire department in your career ( percep...

Yes gs and vn only post full time positions.