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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

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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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The Career Development Sub-Committee serves as a resource and advisory group to aide in communicating career development and training information to PHS nurses. The sub-committee provides information that will encourage and support career development as a nurse officer in the PHS, civil service, and tribal nurse employees. The sub-committee encourages professional development through various resources to include website, continuing education, training, etc.

Career Development Sub-Committee Goals

  • Strengthen nursing practice within USPHS through development of the careers of HHS Nurses. 
  • Identify and disseminate relevant career development information to systematically enhance individual performance and potential.
  • Identify pathways and information for officers choosing clinical, applied public health, research, and mental health or any combination.
  • Integrate educational training for all Commissioned Corps Nurses through resources as applicable.
  • Develop and implement a Career Development Mentoring Program.
  • Inform HHS Nurses about global health activities.
  • Develop and maintain dynamic relevant Career Development web pages.
     

Career Development Sub-Committee Objectives

  • Update and post pertinent career development information to the web pages on a monthly basis.
  • Develop and identify additional resources for HHS Nurses on where to find information on career development.
  • Provide awareness of opportunities related to global health.
  • Develop a quality improvement process to assess the Nurse Category Career Development Program.
  • Provide mentors to Nurse Corps Officers that will offer assistance, career development resources and support of the officer’s professional career goals.


Career Development Sub-Committee Co-Chairs

CDR Marilyn Ridenour
(304)285-5879
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CDR Mei-Ying Li
(301)827-2913
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Career Development Sub-Committee Workgroups

  • Career Education Resources Project
  • Mentoring Project
  • Webpage Project
  • Nursing Spotlight Project