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The United States Public Health Service, A Wonderful Career!!!
Please celebrate with us as we highlight and honor nurses who have achieved successful professional careers with the US Public Health Service.
This Term's Honoree is:
CDR James LaVelle Dickens
Commander James LaVelle Dickens serves in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office, Office of the Secretary, Region VI Dallas, TX.
CDR Dickens is a Doctoral Candidate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. The focus of his doctoral research involves low birth weight and very low birth weight infants in District’s 7 & 8 of Kabul, Afghanistan.
In 2008, he was selected to participate as a clinical team member for the Afghanistan Health Initiative (AHI) in Kabul, Afghanistan. The mission of the AHI is to improve quality of care, and maternal and infant mortality rates at the Rabia Balkhi Womens’ Hospital. CDR Dickens deployed to Afghanistan multiple times, and was responsible for training of over one hundred nurses and lay midwives in the clinical standards of practice of the operating theater. CDR Dickens a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
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Many documents need to be sent to an officer’ paper file kept in OCCO and archived to an officer’s eOPF. Read below what documents should be placed in your official file. Documents sent directly to the eOPF by the officer include: 1) the CV; 2) all continuing education documents; 3) all thank-you letters; 4) all letters of appreciation; 5) special skills documents; and 6) all other PHS support activity documentation, Officer Statement (OS) when appropriate, and the Associate Recruiter Certificate. eOPF fax lines 301-480-1436 or 301-480-1407. Documents sent to program staff for processing include: 1) all application documentation, 2) award documentation; 3) license information; 4) Long-Term training documentation; and 5) Assimilation documentation (unless the Agency/OPDIV Liaison requires additional review procedures). Documents routed through Agency/OPDIV Liaison’s include: 1) COER documentation; 2) Assimilation documentation (for an Agency/OPDIV Liaison that requires additional review procedures); 3) Billet changes; 4) Permanent Change of Station documentation; 5) all other Personnel Actions (1662); and 6) the Reviewing Official Statement (ROS) for promotion. |