Director of Nursing, Perioperative Services

The Director of Nursing provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for assigned service areas across the health system. This role is responsible for clinical practice oversight, ensuring consistent, evidence‑based, and high‑quality care across all inpatient, outpatient, and procedural settings under their leadership. The Director holds 24/7 accountability, ownership, and authority for clinical practice, caregiver performance, and operational reliability within their assigned areas.

This leader ensures reliable care delivery, strengthens caregiver engagement, and advances clinical excellence in alignment with St. Charles’ mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities. In partnership with nursing leaders, service line administrators, physician dyads, and interdisciplinary teams, the Director drives operational effectiveness, promotes a culture of safety, and supports caregivers in delivering exceptional, patient‑centered care. This position directly manages assigned caregivers.

• Operationalizes the systemwide nursing strategy by aligning it with day‑to‑day practice, ensuring consistent implementation across areas of responsibility.
• Ensures alignment with organizational strategic pillars:
  People;
  Clinical & Operational Excellence;
  Transformation, Growth & Innovation.
• Provides leadership for committees, work groups, and projects, ensuring disciplined execution and systemwide spread, alignment, and adoption of evidence‑based practices, standards, and process improvements.
• Partners with CNO/CNE to achieve enterprise quality, safety, financial, and caregiver engagement goals.
• Provides leadership that ensures patient care is consistent with organizational goals, actively participating in the collaborative development of health system and nursing strategies.
• Oversees nursing and patient care policies, procedures, and standards in accordance with the Oregon Health Authority, CMS, The Joint Commission, and other regulatory agencies, ensuring consistency across all areas of patient care.
• Analyzes and structures patient care delivery models and service areas for maximum impact on effective, efficient, and patient‑centered care.

• Oversees clinical practice to ensure evidence‑based, consistent, and high‑quality care.
• Leads harm‑reduction initiatives including but not limited to HAPI, falls, hospital acquired infections, workplace violence, and other critical safety priorities.
• Ensures timely response to safety events and reinforces learning, transparency, and reliability behaviors.
• Partners with Quality, Clinical Education, Infection Prevention, and Regulatory teams to drive improvement and sustain gains.
• Ensures compliance with all policies, standards of care, and regulatory requirements (CMS, Joint Commission, OHA).
• Coordinates operations across campus and system departments to provide evidence‑based care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient‑centered.
• Monitors and evaluates the quality, appropriateness, and cost‑effectiveness of care delivered, and develops quality indicators and improvement strategies for nursing and clinical practice.
• Implements standards to ensure safe and effective nursing care in accordance with professional, medical, legal, and accrediting standards.
• Partners closely with the medical staff to integrate care delivery.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment for caregivers, patients, and guests.

• Leads nurse managers, assistant nurse managers, educators, and frontline caregivers to foster a culture of engagement, belonging, trust, and accountability.
• Promotes psychological safety, supportive team dynamics, and a collaborative work environment.
• Champions and actively participates in Shared Governance, ensuring caregivers have a meaningful voice in decision‑making, practice standards, and professional nursing priorities.
• Applies our Culture of Excellence to ensure fair, consistent, and values‑driven responses to caregiver concerns, performance issues, and safety events.
• Partners with Clinical Education to ensure robust onboarding, competency validation, and…