Chief Nursing Officer
St Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
Pasadena, Texas
- Eligibility
- RNClinical Leadership
Posted Sep 12
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Role
- Accepts
- RN
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Pay
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- Similar TX staff roles post $33/hr to $47/hr
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About this 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. Every day you will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence.
Responsibilities include mentoring senior leaders, setting system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimizing workflows for superior outcomes. You'll represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives. To succeed, you need exceptional executive leadership, visionary strategic management, and profound clinical expertise.
You must influence a culture of excellence, drive transformative improvement, and deliver organizational patient care goals, with a proven history of leading complex clinical teams and shaping change effectively.
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Participates in 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. Leads nursing leadership in the development of a nursing mission, vision, philosophy, strategic plan congruent with the hospital's mission, vision, and strategic plan. Mentors and develops managers and staff to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in a shared leadership structure.
Directs patient care team effectively as team leader and change agent. Develops and implements effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members; provide the forum for staff to verbalize concerns, issues and ideas in a non‐threatening environment. Develops and continually enhances a positive working relationship and the ability to problem solve with other members of the patient care delivery team including physicians and other departments.
Sourced from St Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center’s careers page.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) active license in the state of employment or compact license
- Master’s Degree in Nursing
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Masters in a related field
Benefits
- medical
- prescription drug
- dental
- vision plans
- life insurance
- paid time off (minimum of 14 paid time off days including holidays annually)
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- tuition reimbursement
- retirement plan benefits (401(k), 403(b), defined benefits offerings)
Place
- City
- Pasadena, Texas
- Median rent
- $1,213/mo
- Local household income
- $64,927/yr
- Metro price level
- 1% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Pasadena area index 98.6, where 100 is the national average.
Pasadena sits in the Houston metro, offering nurses suburban comfort with quick access to Texas Medical Center jobs. The city blends blue-collar heritage with growing retail and dining, while nearby Clear Lake provides weekend recreation. Affordable housing makes it practical for travelers seeking room to breathe without losing big-city clinical opportunities.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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About the employer
St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center is a faith-based healthcare facility located in Pasadena, TX, and is part of St. Luke's Health, which operates under CommonSpirit Health. The St. Luke's Health network is dedicated to providing excellent and compassionate…
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