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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    Need help understanding VA step increases

    boywithacoin replied to ADMRK's topic in Government, Military

    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....
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    Notice of Schedule Changes

    boywithacoin replied to German1968's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    GS position No part time or per diem option?

    boywithacoin replied to blueskies1's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    VA proficiency

    boywithacoin replied to VA Nurse1's topic in Government, Military

    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
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    VA PACT RN Question

    boywithacoin replied to carnnurse08616's topic in Government, Military

    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....
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    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
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    Raise at VA After Graduating

    boywithacoin replied to psichi's topic in Government, Military

    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
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    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...
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    Worth It? CA to OR

    boywithacoin replied to anm's topic in Oregon Nursing

    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...
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    2080 hours a year (40hrs/wk,
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    VA Nurse Salary

    boywithacoin replied to kclindsay's topic in Government, Military

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

    boywithacoin replied to PioneerRN's topic in Government, Military

    Once you hit Nurse I Level 3 Step 8, you go to every other year for automatic step increases. I peaked early because I started at L2 S5, then got my yearly step increase AND promotion to L3 during my...
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    VA Nurse Pay Scales

    boywithacoin replied to kristykat's topic in Government, Military

    If you work at a VA as an SNT or VALOR student, or sometimes even as a CNA before getting hired as an RN, they will start you higher depending on the committee that boards you. I started as a new grad...
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    Charting Bloopers

    boywithacoin replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Resurrecting this thread to share a funny typo we found from a doctor the other day. Patient was in for an injury they got while doing the deed (aka coitus); doc's note said, "injury sustained while...
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    Contract nursing at Military/VA hospital

    boywithacoin replied to medivac618's topic in Government, Military

    My floor is almost always adequately staffed. We have a good culture and the folks who work here show up for work and there's not a huge turnover rate. my hospital doesn't have a float pool, though,...
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    Contract nursing at Military/VA hospital

    boywithacoin replied to medivac618's topic in Government, Military

    Same as OUxPhys. I've only ever seen agency CNAs, and even that is rare at my
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    Legacy New Grad RN 2019

    boywithacoin replied to agrider's topic in Oregon Nursing

    It's been 3 years since I did it, so I don't remember it super well, but if I recall correctly... They had multiple groups of interviewees come in throughout the day for a specific amount of time. For...
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    You must watch me!

    boywithacoin replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    If I don't have an extra 10 seconds to actually watch the waste I just "witnessed," I tell the other RN to find someone else. When I need a witness, I make sure to ask them if they have time to both...
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    Salem vs. Eugene

    boywithacoin replied to cheergirl33's topic in Oregon Nursing

    I haven't worked or actually lived in either location, but have spent a lot of time in both places. My grandpa recently passed away and was at Salem Hospital leading up to his death; it's a beautiful...
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    I forgot to return blood to the bloodbank

    boywithacoin replied to Marie_N's topic in General Nursing

    OP, please keep us
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    new night shift nurse always tired on days off

    boywithacoin replied to ddrn97's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a night owl anyway, so I maintain my NOC schedule all the time, unless I'm off for an extended period of time or have to be up during the day for something. Switching to a day schedule is really...