Nurse (Associate Director - Patient Care Services)

Associate Director for Patient Care Services

The Associate Director for Patient Care Services (ADPCS) is a healthcare administrator and the top executive within nursing and is a key member of the senior executive leadership team of the organization, involved in strategic planning, organizational assessment, and program development. She/he provides visionary thinking on issues that impact the facility. The ADPCS is an equal partner at the VISN Executive Leadership Board along with other facility members. She/he is expected to be a member of all medical center-level Councils and Committees that govern and influence the operations of the medical center. The ADPCS promotes the image of nursing and the VA through effective media relations.

Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Understands regulation and payment issues that affect the facility's budget.
• Takes appropriate action when opportunities exist to adjust clinical operations to respond effectively to environmental changes in economic elements.
• Develops marketing strategies in collaboration with the Executive Leadership Team and marketing experts.
• Has final authority and approval over nursing job descriptions, nursing care policies and procedures; nursing standards of patient care, treatment, and services; standards of nursing practice; nurse staffing plans; and standards to measure, assess, and improve patient outcomes.
• Ensures that all registered nurses, advance practice nurses, and licensed practical nurses are licensed, certified, and/or registered upon employment, and thereafter.
• Ensures a competency process is in place to evaluate individual practice, as well as a review process for annual performance ratings.
• Chief spokesperson for organized nursing services and is the catalyst for the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of patient-centered and organizational goals.
• Champions a High Reliability Organization with a culture of safety founded on a systems approach to developing evidence-based health care solutions based on prevention, not punishment, with collective mindfulness.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Nurse V may be eligible for Nurse Executive pay. Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 0800 - 1630 Telework: Ad-hoc, based on supervisor's approval. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for a highly qualified applicant. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): May be authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required