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As our Market Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), you will serve as the senior nursing executive for California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles while playing an important collaborative leadership role across CommonSpirit Health's six-hospital Southern California market. Your primary responsibility will be leading nursing operations, advancing clinical excellence, and strengthening patient experience at California Hospital Medical Center. In addition, you will partner with fellow hospital Chief Nursing Officers throughout the market to promote consistency in nursing practices, strengthen leadership collaboration, and support a more cohesive approach to delivering high-quality patient care.
Every day, you will provide visible, hands-on leadership to nursing teams, working closely with physicians, hospital executives, and frontline staff to advance quality outcomes, patient safety, workforce engagement, and operational performance. Beyond your hospital responsibilities, you will serve as a trusted colleague and resource to other CNOs across the market, helping establish shared standards, exchange best practices, mentor nursing leaders, and support initiatives that strengthen nursing operations. Your ability to influence through relationships, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence will be essential to the success of this role.
To be successful in this role, you will bring a strong foundation in California acute care nursing leadership, including experience navigating unionized environments and complex hospital operations. You will be a highly visible, approachable leader who builds trust, fosters meaningful relationships with physicians and nursing teams, and maintains high standards for clinical quality and patient experience. Equally important will be your ability to coach and develop nursing leaders, lead through organizational change, and bring people together around common goals while embracing CommonSpirit Health's mission of humankindness.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Provide executive leadership and operational oversight of nursing services at California Hospital Medical Center, ensuring excellence in clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, workforce engagement, and operational performance.
- Collaborate with Chief Nursing Officers across the six-hospital Southern California market to strengthen alignment in nursing practices, establish consistent standards, share best practices, and advance common clinical and operational priorities.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with physicians, hospital executives, nursing leaders, frontline staff, and labor representatives to foster trust, accountability, and a positive working environment.
- Mentor, coach, and develop nursing leaders, supporting leadership effectiveness, professional growth, and succession planning while serving as a resource to fellow CNOs throughout the market.
- Lead and support initiatives focused on improving nursing-sensitive quality indicators, patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes, and regulatory compliance through evidence-based practices and continuous performance improvement.
- Provide leadership and guidance through operational changes, clinical transformation, technology implementations, and other initiatives that impact nursing care delivery.
- Maintain a highly visible leadership presence through regular rounding, meaningful staff engagement, and active collaboration with medical staff to identify opportunities for improvement and strengthen organizational culture.
- Provide interim nursing executive leadership support across the market when needed, helping maintain continuity, consistency, and operational effectiveness.
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) or a related field, with a BSN or MSN required.
- Master's degree in Nursing, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Education, or Public Health.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of nursing experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressive nursing leadership experience.
- Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license upon hire.
- Demonstrated nursing leadership experience within California's acute care hospital environment.
- Experience working within unionized healthcare environments, including labor relations and nursing workforce management.
- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative physician relationships, develop nursing leaders, and drive improvements in clinical quality and patient experience.
Preferred
- Previous experience as a Chief Nursing Officer, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, or comparable senior nursing executive within an acute care hospital.
- Experience collaborating with nursing leaders across multiple hospitals or within an integrated health system.
- Demonstrated success improving nursing quality outcomes, patient experience, and employee engagement.
- Experience leading organizational change, clinical transformation, or large-scale technology implementations.
- Professional nursing executive certification, such as NEA-BC.
Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy.
Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Pay Range
$127.74 - $178.84 /hour
As our Market Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), you will serve as the senior nursing executive for California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles while playing an important collaborative leadership role across CommonSpirit Health's six-hospital Southern California market. Your primary responsibility will be leading nursing operations, advancing clinical excellence, and strengthening patient experience at California Hospital Medical Center. In addition, you will partner with fellow hospital Chief Nursing Officers throughout the market to promote consistency in nursing practices, strengthen leadership collaboration, and support a more cohesive approach to delivering high-quality patient care.
Every day, you will provide visible, hands-on leadership to nursing teams, working closely with physicians, hospital executives, and frontline staff to advance quality outcomes, patient safety, workforce engagement, and operational performance. Beyond your hospital responsibilities, you will serve as a trusted colleague and resource to other CNOs across the market, helping establish shared standards, exchange best practices, mentor nursing leaders, and support initiatives that strengthen nursing operations. Your ability to influence through relationships, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence will be essential to the success of this role.
To be successful in this role, you will bring a strong foundation in California acute care nursing leadership, including experience navigating unionized environments and complex hospital operations. You will be a highly visible, approachable leader who builds trust, fosters meaningful relationships with physicians and nursing teams, and maintains high standards for clinical quality and patient experience. Equally important will be your ability to coach and develop nursing leaders, lead through organizational change, and bring people together around common goals while embracing CommonSpirit Health's mission of humankindness.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Provide executive leadership and operational oversight of nursing services at California Hospital Medical Center, ensuring excellence in clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, workforce engagement, and operational performance.
- Collaborate with Chief Nursing Officers across the six-hospital Southern California market to strengthen alignment in nursing practices, establish consistent standards, share best practices, and advance common clinical and operational priorities.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with physicians, hospital executives, nursing leaders, frontline staff, and labor representatives to foster trust, accountability, and a positive working environment.
- Mentor, coach, and develop nursing leaders, supporting leadership effectiveness, professional growth, and succession planning while serving as a resource to fellow CNOs throughout the market.
- Lead and support initiatives focused on improving nursing-sensitive quality indicators, patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes, and regulatory compliance through evidence-based practices and continuous performance improvement.
- Provide leadership and guidance through operational changes, clinical transformation, technology implementations, and other initiatives that impact nursing care delivery.
- Maintain a highly visible leadership presence through regular rounding, meaningful staff engagement, and active collaboration with medical staff to identify opportunities for improvement and strengthen organizational culture.
- Provide interim nursing executive leadership support across the market when needed, helping maintain continuity, consistency, and operational effectiveness.
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) or a related field, with a BSN or MSN required.
- Master's degree in Nursing, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Education, or Public Health.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of nursing experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressive nursing leadership experience.
- Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license upon hire.
- Demonstrated nursing leadership experience within California's acute care hospital environment.
- Experience working within unionized healthcare environments, including labor relations and nursing workforce management.
- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative physician relationships, develop nursing leaders, and drive improvements in clinical quality and patient experience.
Preferred
- Previous experience as a Chief Nursing Officer, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, or comparable senior nursing executive within an acute care hospital.
- Experience collaborating with nursing leaders across multiple hospitals or within an integrated health system.
- Demonstrated success improving nursing quality outcomes, patient experience, and employee engagement.
- Experience leading organizational change, clinical transformation, or large-scale technology implementations.
- Professional nursing executive certification, such as NEA-BC.
Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy.
Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Pay Range
$127.74 - $178.84 /hour
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in chief nursing officer jobs.
- Master of Science in Nursing or Master of Business Administration required
- Current registered nurse licensure in the state of employment
- Minimum ten years of progressive nursing leadership experience
- Certified in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP) or equivalent credential
- Demonstrated experience leading quality improvement and patient safety initiatives
- Proficiency with hospital information systems and electronic health records platforms
Tips for Your Chief Nursing Officer Job Search
Align your resume to system-level outcomes
CNO recruiters scan for measurable improvements in nurse retention, patient satisfaction scores, and staffing ratios. Reframe your resume around organization-wide results you drove, not departmental duties you managed, so your scope reads at the executive level.
Lead with your nursing leadership credentials
Many CNO postings screen for CENP or FACHE certification before reviewing further. List those credentials immediately after your name in the header so they clear the initial filter, especially at large health systems where human resources reviews applications before clinical leadership does.
Target postings that match your bed count experience
Health systems routinely specify whether they want a CNO from a 200-bed community hospital or a 600-plus-bed academic center. Apply to roles where your previous organization size is comparable, since mismatches in scale are among the most common reasons finalists are passed over.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists chief nursing officer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a strategic nursing workforce narrative
CNO interviewers almost always ask how you have addressed nurse turnover or staffing shortages. Build a concise story that covers the problem you inherited, the specific interventions you implemented, and the retention or vacancy-rate outcome, so you can deliver it fluently across multiple interview rounds.
Negotiate your contract before the board meeting
CNO offers typically involve a performance bonus tied to quality metrics and a termination clause. Ask to see the draft employment agreement before the final board approval stage, because revisions become far harder to negotiate once the board has formally voted on a compensation package.
Chief Nursing Officer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most chief nursing officers?
The companies hiring the most chief nursing officers right now include Encompass Health, PAM Health, and Tenet Healthcare, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Florida, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Health systems undergoing expansion or executive succession planning tend to generate the highest volume of active searches.
How many chief nursing officer jobs are remote?
About 9% of chief nursing officer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on oversight most health systems expect at the C-suite nursing level. Strategy, policy development, and system-level consulting roles within managed care organizations or health technology companies are the sub-areas most likely to offer remote flexibility.
How do you become a chief nursing officer?
Start by earning a master's degree in nursing or healthcare administration, then build progressive leadership experience moving from charge nurse to nurse manager, director of nursing, and vice president of patient care services. Pursue executive nursing certification and develop a record of leading quality improvement programs, managing large nursing staffs, and collaborating with hospital boards and physician leadership before pursuing a CNO search.
Can you get hired as a chief nursing officer with limited executive experience?
Critical access hospitals, rural health systems, and smaller long-term care organizations sometimes hire strong directors of nursing into a first CNO role, particularly when the candidate has led accreditation efforts or managed a significant service line. Framing your application around the breadth of your operational responsibility and any board-level exposure you have gives smaller systems the confidence to take that step with you.
What does the chief nursing officer interview process look like?
CNO searches typically move through an initial screen with human resources or an executive search firm, a panel interview with the CEO and CFO, a separate session with nursing leadership and staff representatives, and a final presentation to the board or board committee. Many organizations also conduct a site visit where you meet informally with frontline nurses, so your ability to connect across all levels of the organization carries real weight throughout the process.
Where can I find and apply to chief nursing officer jobs?
You can find and apply to chief nursing officer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and target setting, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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