Chief Nursing Officer

About the Role

As our Chief Nursing Officer, you will define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide, ensuring exceptional, high-quality, and compassionate care delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. You will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence, and represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Mentor senior leaders and set system-level patient safety and compliance standards.
• Optimize workflows for superior outcomes.
• Participate in the hospital's decision-making processes by collaborating with leaders from the governing body, health system management, hospital leadership council, medical staff, and clinical areas in developing strategic plans, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies.
• Lead nursing leadership in the development of a nursing mission, vision, philosophy, and strategic plan congruent with the hospital's mission, vision, and strategic plan.
• Mentor and develop managers and staff to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in a shared leadership structure.
• Direct the patient care team effectively as a team leader and change agent.
• Develop and implement effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members and create a forum for staff to verbalize concerns, issues, and ideas in a non-threatening environment.
• Develop and continually enhance positive working relationships and problem-solving abilities with other members of the patient care delivery team, including physicians and other departments.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) active license in the state of employment or compact license.
• Master’s Degree in Nursing; if Master’s Degree is not in nursing, then must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and a Master’s in a related field (M.H.A., M.B.A., or M.S.).
• Ten years of healthcare experience.
• Five years of leadership experience in nursing.

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds, and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.

Pay

$69.14 - $97.17/hour