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Director Patient Care Dialysis

CommonSpirit Health

Houston, TXJob$71.15–105.83/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$71.15–105.83/hr
Location
Houston, TX
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Texas RN LicenseBasic Life Support CPRAdvanced Cardiac Life SupportBachelor's degree

Job overview

The Director of Patient Care provides strategic and operational leadership for patient care units or services, supporting high-quality care. The role manages and develops nursing staff, oversees patient safety and regulatory compliance, and improves clinical workflows. It also leads quality programs, develops service-line goals, monitors performance and staffing, and manages budgets and costs.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

LeadershipClinical ExpertiseStrategic ManagementNursingPatient SafetyRegulatory ComplianceClinical Workflow OptimizationQuality ImprovementBudget ManagementStaffing Management

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in NursingFour Years Nursing ExperienceMaster's in Nursing, MBA, or MHAFive Years Management ExperienceTexas RN LicenseBasic Life Support CPRAdvanced Cardiac Life Support

Full job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Director of Patient Care, you will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for specific patient care units or services, ensuring the delivery of exceptional, high-quality care.

Every day you will manage, mentor, and develop nursing staff, oversee patient safety initiatives, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize clinical workflows to enhance patient outcomes and satisfaction.

To be successful, you will demonstrate strong leadership, clinical expertise, and strategic management skills, crucial for fostering a culture of excellence, driving continuous improvement, and achieving organizational goals in patient care.

  • Monitors metrics to validate performance against national and system benchmarks; ensures the delivery of competent clinical practice.

  • Develops leadership within the hospital which supports and maintains excellence in the standards of research based nursing practice.

  • Develops, integrates, and implements goals of the hospital and nursing into their service line(s).

  • Leads quality programs and works to develop action places for continuous improvement.

  • Develops, reviews, and maintains fiscal budget within established targets. Monitors overtime, labor costs, medical supply expenses, and works with purchasing partner to obtain strong supply contract pricing.

  • Assures staffing patterns are flexed and according to unit activity and patient acuity.

Job Requirements

Required

  • Bachelors Of Science Nursing and Four (4) years of nursing experience in a tertiary acute care hospital , upon hire and

  • Masters Other Nursing, MBA, or MHA (Internal candidates are required to complete Master’s program within 3 years) and five (5) years of management experience at the nurse manager level or above., upon hire

  • Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and

  • Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and

  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months

Where You'll Work

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.

Pay Range

$71.15 - $105.83 /hour

We are an equal opportunity employer.

How this job compares

Set against the 583 open Nursing Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$71.15–105.83/hr
  • US median$49–75/hr88 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $88.49/hr, is 41% above the US median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the top quarter of Nursing Leadership hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 26 open Nursing Leadership jobs in Texas and 583 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Nursing Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (440 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 238 of the 583 open Nursing Leadership jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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