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Registered Nurse - Deputy Chief Nurse of Nursing Operations
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The VA Long Beach Healthcare System (VALBHCS) is seeking to hire a qualified Registered Nurse to serve as Deputy Chief Nurse of Nursing Operations. In this role, the Deputy Chief Nurse will have direct supervisory authority and accountability for the 24/7 operational management of clinical units, ensuring that staff deliver timely, high-quality nursing care in accordance with established clinical standards.
What You'll Do
- →Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.
- →Responsible for documented outcomes at the program or service level, which are broad and complex, demonstrable at any organizational level within a facility, VISN, or VACO.
- →Demonstrates leadership and organization of care delivery to ensure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice, including access to care and discharge planning.
- →Uses advanced clinical knowledge and judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes.
- →Functions as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to assigned roles and responsibilities.
- →Evaluates current practices and formulates outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise.
- →Guides, develops, and supports staff from a leadership perspective.
- →Utilizes professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and best practices to evaluate programs and/or service activities.
- →Collaborates effectively across all levels of staff and with other health professionals.
- →Leads efforts to improve patient care, uphold standards of care, and directs and teaches personnel in various settings.
- →Leading and organizing delivery of staffing methodology education to assure continuity and accountability for practices.
- →Using advanced clinical knowledge/judgment to promote involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes.
- →Functioning as an expert in clinical nursing staffing and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities.
- →Systematically evaluating current practice, and formulating outcomes for groups and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise.
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.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: baa7ea62-3fdb-42b0-96cb-2db2fe68298b
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