Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer

At North Bay Health, the Vice President, Hospital Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the nursing executive responsible for providing strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for nursing services across North Bay Medical Center and Vaca Valley Hospital. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Hospital President, the CNO is accountable for the delivery of high-quality, safe, patient-centered nursing care while advancing professional nursing practice, workforce engagement, operational excellence, and organizational performance.

At North Bay Health, the Vice President, Hospital Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the nursing executive responsible for providing strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for nursing services across North Bay Medical Center and Vaca Valley Hospital. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Hospital President, the CNO is accountable for the delivery of high-quality, safe, patient-centered nursing care while advancing professional nursing practice, workforce engagement, operational excellence, and organizational performance.

• Serve as the organization's nursing executive and principal advocate for the nursing profession.
• Represent the voice and perspective of nursing in senior leadership discussions, organizational strategy, and enterprise decision-making.
• Partner as a trusted strategic advisor to the President, Chief Executive Officer, executive leadership team, medical staff leaders, and Board of Directors on matters affecting clinical care, workforce strategy, patient experience, quality, safety, and organizational performance.
• Ensure nursing priorities are integrated into the organization's strategic planning, capital planning, operational initiatives, and long‑term organizational goals.
• Foster an environment in which nursing leadership is recognized as an essential contributor to organizational governance and decision‑making.

• Ensure delivery of safe, evidence‑based, patient‑centered care across all inpatient nursing departments.
• Lead initiatives to improve:
• Patient safety
• Clinical quality
• Patient experience
• Nursing‑sensitive quality indicators
• Regulatory readiness
• Promote high reliability principles and continuous quality improvement methodologies.
• Maintain readiness for Joint Commission, CMS, California Department of Public Health, and other regulatory surveys.

• Provide executive oversight for nursing operations across both hospitals.
• Ensure appropriate staffing models and workforce deployment.
• Optimize nursing productivity while maintaining quality outcomes.
• Partner with operational leaders to improve throughput, patient flow, and capacity management.
• Establish performance expectations and accountability for nursing leadership.

• Advance a professional nursing practice environment grounded in evidence‑based care.
• Support shared governance and clinical excellence.
• Promote interdisciplinary collaboration and physician partnership.
• Encourage nursing research, innovation, and adoption of best practices.
• Champion Magnet® principles and nursing excellence initiatives, whether pursuing or maintaining designation.
• Champion a professional nursing practice model that supports shared governance, structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice, innovation, and evidence‑based care.
• Promote an environment in which nurses are actively engaged in organizational decision‑making, quality improvement, research, professional development, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Provide executive sponsorship for nursing councils and shared governance structures that empower frontline nurses to influence practice and patient care.