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Deputy Nurse Executive/ADPCS
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 12 days ago
Hybrid Big Spring, TX $160K – $213K Apply by Sep 14, 2026 Nurse ESFJINFJISFJISTJ OperationsHealthcare
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The Nurse IV Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Service/Deputy Nurse Executive is an advanced healthcare executive who demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to ensure the continuous and timely availability of quality nursing practice in a variety of complex patient care services and programs. Functions as an executive administrator and consultant to the Associate Director for Patient Care Service (ADPCS)/Nurse Executive (NE) to improve Veterans care.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties Include: Comprised of complex leadership and administrative components associated with critical health care issues and activities that influence the organizational mission, health care, and policy.
- →The incumbent is accountable to the ADPCS/NE and are an integral part of the senior leadership team.
- →Member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and a healthcare executive within nursing services.
- →The incumbent is a spokesperson for organized nursing services and works to ensure the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of optimal Veteran centered organizational goals in the facility.
- →Works closely with the ADPCS/NE as a collaborator and partner in strategic planning, organization assessment, and program development.
- →The incumbent has the responsibility to assist with the establishment of standards for the practice of nursing at the health care system level to ensure the continuous and timely availability of quality nursing services.
- →The DADPCS/DNE is responsible for the practice of nursing 24/7.
- →This includes all registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, and allied health staff (LPNs, NAs, etc.) regardless of line authority.
- →They have line authority over the Associate Chief Nurses (ACNs) and may have additional duties assigned to them by the ADPCS/NE.
- →The incumbent exercises preliminary approval for the following: job descriptions, policies, and procedures; standards of patient care, treatment, and services; nursing practice standards; staffing plans; functional statements; and standards to measure, assess, and improve patient outcomes.
- →The incumbent appropriately delegates activities to services assigned to them under the purview of the ADPCS/NE.
- →Ensures a competency process is in place to evaluate individual practice, as well as a review process for annual performance ratings.
- →The DADPCS/DNE promotes shared decision-making to ensure a healthy work environment for nursing; a spirit of inquiry and the use of evidence-based practice; and an academic environment supportive of education and research to promote the profession of nursing.
- →The incumbent champions a High Reliability Organization (HRO) founded on a collective mindfulness approach to develop evidence-based health care solutions that promote prevention and safety.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Must possess a valid Drivers License Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓The Associate Degree Nursing (ADN), Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN), or Master of Science degree in Nursing (MSN) must be fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission On Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
- ✓Verification of accreditation may be obtained from http://www.acenursing.us/accreditedprograms/programsearch.htm or https://directory.ccnecommunity.org/reports/accprog.asp If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application.
- ✓If your school was accredited by ACEN or CCNE at the time of graduation, but is no longer listed on the websites, you must provide documentation of accreditation with your application packet.
Personality Fit
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