Registered Nurse - Inpatient Cardiology (Part Time)
for sections present: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. The posting includes summary (location, function). Could be "About the role". Responsibilities: duties list. Requirements: maybe basic requirements? Qualifications: grade determinations etc. Skills: maybe not explicit. Benefits: VA offers comprehensive total rewards package details. Pay: maybe not explicit salary figure, but they mention "Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards". That's pay info. Schedule: Work Schedule: NOCs 2330-800 - 1930-0800 - 2330-1200. Telework: Not Available etc. So we can include Pay and Schedule sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. There's none.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Use - for lists. Use
for prose.
We need to decide sections: About the role (summary location and function). Responsibilities (duties). Requirements (basic requirements? maybe combine with Qualifications? The instruction: Use headings for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have both Requirements and Qualifications if content distinct. Requirements could be basic requirements (English proficiency, education, licensure). Qualifications could be grade determinations and preferred experience. Skills maybe not present; we can omit if no specific skills list. Benefits: VA total rewards package. Pay: competitive salary etc. Schedule: work schedule details.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". Ensure we have real content.
Let's extract content.
Summary: "This position is located at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center - Milwaukee - Wisconsin - in the Acute Care Inpatient Nursing Division on 5CN. The function of the Cardiac/Telemetry/Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (RN) is to provide - direct - and supervise the delivery of quality nursing care to a veteran population of varying complexity"
We can put that in About the role.
Responsibilities: list of duties from "Duties" section: bullet points after "Duties". Let's capture:
- Communicate and interact appropriately and courteously with internal and external customers
- Maintain confidentiality of patient/employee information electronically - verbally and written
- Work and function within a safe manner including infection control and operation of equipment
- Integrate and apply pertinent aspects of the Medical Center performance improvement program into professional practice
- Utilize nursing research - evidence-based practice and literature in daily practice
- Provide care appropriate to the biopsychosocial needs of the population served
- This knowledge includes an understanding of the changes associated with aging and principles of growth and development relevant to the adult and geriatric population
- They must be able to assess and interpret data related to the patient's current health status - which will facilitate the delivery of care appropriate to the age specific needs of the adult and geriatric patient
- Provide lifestyle competent care to the patient population
- Practice requirements include Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- All other duties as assigned
We need to keep as list items. Some sub-bullets maybe we can flatten.
Requirements: Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, graduation from approved school, etc. Also foreign education equivalency, current full active unrestricted registration, GNT exception, grandfathering provision. We'll list as items.
Qualifications: Grade Determinations with scope education etc. Also Preferred Experience: One year of acute nursing experience. Also reference link maybe we can keep as note? Probably we can keep as a paragraph referencing link.
Skills: Not explicit; maybe we can omit.
Benefits: VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: details: Pay: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards; Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year); Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA; Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement); Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory.
Pay: Already included in benefits but we can separate Pay section: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards.
Schedule: Work Schedule: NOCs 2330-800 - 1930-0800 - 2330-1200; Telework: Not Available; Virtual: This is not a virtual position; Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized; Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
We should not include "Telework: Not Available" etc if it's just stating not available; but it's schedule-related info. We'll include.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- English Language Proficiency: must be proficient in basic written and spoken English (per 38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
- Education: Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE; or master's level bridge program with coursework equivalent to bachelor's degree; or foreign school with current full active unrestricted registration; or foreign nursing education higher than associate degree requires formal degree equivalency validation (e.g., ICD).
- Licensure: Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or District of Columbia.
- Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception: candidates meeting education requirements but lacking licensure may be appointed as GNT on a 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years) while pursuing licensure.
- Grandfathering provision: VHA employees in 0610 series performing these duties before 1/29/2024 are considered to have met qualification requirements.
Qualifications
Grade determinations are based on scope, education, and dimension criteria (Practice, Veteran/Patient‑Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, Evidence‑Based Practice/Research). Details for each grade/level are available in the online assessment: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13077373.
- Nurse I – Level I: ADN or Diploma in Nursing (no additional professional nursing required).
- Nurse I – Level II: ADN/Diploma + 1 year specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level I; OR BSN (no additional experience).
- Nurse I – Level III: ADN/Diploma + 2 years professional nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II); OR BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II; OR MSN (no experience); OR MS in a related field + BSN (no experience).
- Nurse II: BSN + 2 years professional nursing equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III; OR MSN + 1 year specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III; OR MS in related field + BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III; OR Doctoral in Nursing (no experience); OR Doctoral in related field + BSN (no experience).
- Nurse III: MSN + 2 years specialized nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II and meeting all dimension requirements); OR MS in related field + BSN + 2 years specialized nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II); OR Doctoral in Nursing + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse II; OR Doctoral in related field + BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse II.
Preferred experience: One year of acute nursing experience.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off: 50 days per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays).
- Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5‑year vesting) and federal 401(k) with up to 5% VA matching.
- Insurance: Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long‑term care (many programs portable into retirement).
- Licensure requirement: Must hold a full and unrestricted license from any U.S. state or territory.
Pay
Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.
Schedule
- Work schedule: NOCs 2330‑0800, 1930‑0800, 2330‑1200.
- Telework: Not available.
- Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- Relocation/Recruitment incentives: Not authorized.
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.
We need to ensure no duplicate content. Also ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "All other duties as assigned" we included in responsibilities.
Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: The summary about location and function is in About the role. The duties list we captured. The basic requirements we captured. The grade determinations we captured. Preferred experience we captured. Benefits we captured. Pay we captured. Schedule we captured.
We omitted the reference link in Qualifications but we included as a link. Good.
We omitted the "Physical Requirements" section; it's substantive but there's no heading for Physical Requirements in allowed list. Could we put it under Responsibilities or Requirements? It's about physical demands; maybe we can include under Responsibilities as a bullet? But it's not a duty, it's a requirement. Could add under Requirements as a bullet: Physical requirements: includes level of physicality associated with nursing duties such as direct patient care, walking, standing, sitting, moderate lifting, repeated bending, kneeling; examples: significant time standing, safe patient handling protocols. We'll add that.
Also we missed "Practice requirements include Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)" we already have in responsibilities.
We missed "Provide lifestyle competent care to the patient population" we have.
We missed "Integrate and apply pertinent aspects of the Medical Center performance improvement program into professional practice" we have.
We missed "Utilize nursing research - evidence-based practice and literature in daily practice" we have.
We missed "Provide care appropriate to the biopsychosocial needs of the population served" we have.
We missed "They must be able to assess and interpret data related to the patient's current health status - which will facilitate the delivery of care appropriate to the age specific needs of the adult and geriatric patient" we have.
We missed "This knowledge includes an understanding of the changes associated with aging and principles of growth and development relevant to the adult and geriatric population" we have.
We missed "Work and function within a safe manner including infection control and operation of equipment" we have.
We missed "Maintain confidentiality of patient/employee information electronically - verbally and written" we have.
We missed "Communicate and interact appropriately and courteously with internal and external customers" we have.
We missed "All other duties as assigned
for prose. We need to decide sections: About the role (summary location and function). Responsibilities (duties). Requirements (basic requirements? maybe combine with Qualifications? The instruction: Use headings for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have both Requirements and Qualifications if content distinct. Requirements could be basic requirements (English proficiency, education, licensure). Qualifications could be grade determinations and preferred experience. Skills maybe not present; we can omit if no specific skills list. Benefits: VA total rewards package. Pay: competitive salary etc. Schedule: work schedule details. We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". Ensure we have real content. Let's extract content. Summary: "This position is located at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center - Milwaukee - Wisconsin - in the Acute Care Inpatient Nursing Division on 5CN. The function of the Cardiac/Telemetry/Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (RN) is to provide - direct - and supervise the delivery of quality nursing care to a veteran population of varying complexity" We can put that in About the role. Responsibilities: list of duties from "Duties" section: bullet points after "Duties". Let's capture: - Communicate and interact appropriately and courteously with internal and external customers - Maintain confidentiality of patient/employee information electronically - verbally and written - Work and function within a safe manner including infection control and operation of equipment - Integrate and apply pertinent aspects of the Medical Center performance improvement program into professional practice - Utilize nursing research - evidence-based practice and literature in daily practice - Provide care appropriate to the biopsychosocial needs of the population served - This knowledge includes an understanding of the changes associated with aging and principles of growth and development relevant to the adult and geriatric population - They must be able to assess and interpret data related to the patient's current health status - which will facilitate the delivery of care appropriate to the age specific needs of the adult and geriatric patient - Provide lifestyle competent care to the patient population - Practice requirements include Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - All other duties as assigned We need to keep as list items. Some sub-bullets maybe we can flatten. Requirements: Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, graduation from approved school, etc. Also foreign education equivalency, current full active unrestricted registration, GNT exception, grandfathering provision. We'll list as items. Qualifications: Grade Determinations with scope education etc. Also Preferred Experience: One year of acute nursing experience. Also reference link maybe we can keep as note? Probably we can keep as a paragraph referencing link. Skills: Not explicit; maybe we can omit. Benefits: VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: details: Pay: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards; Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year); Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA; Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement); Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory. Pay: Already included in benefits but we can separate Pay section: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards. Schedule: Work Schedule: NOCs 2330-800 - 1930-0800 - 2330-1200; Telework: Not Available; Virtual: This is not a virtual position; Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized; Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized. We should not include "Telework: Not Available" etc if it's just stating not available; but it's schedule-related info. We'll include. Now produce HTML. Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- English Language Proficiency: must be proficient in basic written and spoken English (per 38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
- Education: Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE; or master's level bridge program with coursework equivalent to bachelor's degree; or foreign school with current full active unrestricted registration; or foreign nursing education higher than associate degree requires formal degree equivalency validation (e.g., ICD).
- Licensure: Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or District of Columbia.
- Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception: candidates meeting education requirements but lacking licensure may be appointed as GNT on a 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years) while pursuing licensure.
- Grandfathering provision: VHA employees in 0610 series performing these duties before 1/29/2024 are considered to have met qualification requirements.
Qualifications
Grade determinations are based on scope, education, and dimension criteria (Practice, Veteran/Patient‑Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, Evidence‑Based Practice/Research). Details for each grade/level are available in the online assessment: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13077373.
- Nurse I – Level I: ADN or Diploma in Nursing (no additional professional nursing required).
- Nurse I – Level II: ADN/Diploma + 1 year specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level I; OR BSN (no additional experience).
- Nurse I – Level III: ADN/Diploma + 2 years professional nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II); OR BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level II; OR MSN (no experience); OR MS in a related field + BSN (no experience).
- Nurse II: BSN + 2 years professional nursing equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III; OR MSN + 1 year specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III; OR MS in related field + BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level III; OR Doctoral in Nursing (no experience); OR Doctoral in related field + BSN (no experience).
- Nurse III: MSN + 2 years specialized nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II and meeting all dimension requirements); OR MS in related field + BSN + 2 years specialized nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II); OR Doctoral in Nursing + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse II; OR Doctoral in related field + BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse II.
Preferred experience: One year of acute nursing experience.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off: 50 days per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays).
- Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5‑year vesting) and federal 401(k) with up to 5% VA matching.
- Insurance: Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long‑term care (many programs portable into retirement).
- Licensure requirement: Must hold a full and unrestricted license from any U.S. state or territory.
Pay
Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.
Schedule
- Work schedule: NOCs 2330‑0800, 1930‑0800, 2330‑1200.
- Telework: Not available.
- Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- Relocation/Recruitment incentives: Not authorized.
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.