Which VA medical centers advertised sign‑on bonuses for registered nurses in 2025 and what were the advertised amounts?

1. What the VA materials explicitly say about bonuses in 2025

VA career and “Total Rewards” publications in 2025 describe an array of financial incentives available to nurses—sign‑on and retention bonuses, student loan repayment and special pay authorities—and point readers to local VA medical centers for details, but these materials are presented at a national level and do not enumerate which individual medical centers were advertising specific sign‑on bonus amounts in 2025 ^{[1] [4] [2]}.

2. The statutory and policy context that expanded bonus options

Federal and VA policy context matters: the PACT Act and later policy changes removed prior caps and expanded authorities for recruitment and retention incentives, which the VA says allowed for larger awards and new tools to recruit clinicians; reporting cites special contribution awards and expanded bonus authority—examples include mentions of awards up to $25,000 under changed authorities—yet that coverage remains descriptive of potential maximums rather than a directory of center‑level advertised bonuses in 2025 ^{[3] [2]}.

3. No contemporaneous, center‑level advertising found in supplied sources

Among the supplied items there is no contemporaneous advertis­ing from specific VA medical centers in 2025 listing a named sign‑on bonus amount for registered nurses; the VA’s national brochures and careers pages emphasize benefits and how to inquire locally but stop short of broadcasting center‑specific dollar figures in the materials provided ^{[1] [2] [4]}.

4. Older and non‑VA examples show what such advertising can look like, but they are not 2025 VA listings

The search materials include an example of a North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System signing bonus story from 2021 and numerous non‑VA hospital sign‑on bonus listings (for example, site reporting from 2021 and private employers advertising $5,000–$25,000 bonuses), which demonstrate that local facilities do advertise amounts, but those items are either from earlier years or concern non‑VA employers and therefore cannot be cited as proof of 2025 VA medical center advertisements ^{[5] [6] [7]}.

5. Why the evidence is ambiguous and how to confirm specific centers/amounts

The absence of center‑level advertised amounts in the supplied documents reflects two reporting realities: VA often centralizes benefit descriptions in national brochures while local facility human resources offices or job postings convey specific incentive figures, and statutory changes create a wide range of allowable awards without guaranteeing each center uses them; the supplied sources direct applicants to contact local VA medical centers for specifics, which means confirming which centers advertised a sign‑on bonus in 2025 requires inspection of local job postings, VA facility job pages, or HR announcements not included here ^{[1] [4] [2]}.

6. Bottom line and responsible caveat

Based solely on the provided reporting and VA materials, it cannot be affirmed which individual VA medical centers advertised sign‑on bonuses for registered nurses in 2025 or what specific amounts they advertised; the VA’s national materials and policy summaries establish that sign‑on and recruitment bonuses are available and that higher awards became possible under recent policy changes, but the supplied sources do not list center‑by‑center advertised dollar amounts for 2025 ^{[1] [2] [3]}.