Arleen Roder-Campeau Profile

Arleen Roder-Campeau, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), began her work at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in 2005 as the ICU Nurse Manager.

In early 2006, Arleen was promoted to Administrative Director of Critical Care, overseeing the ICU and Telemetry and helping establish Cheyenne Regional’s first Rapid Response Team. The Rapid Response Team is comprised of critical care nurses who respond as a team to urgent concerns and emergency situations involving patients. The Rapid Response Team can be accessed by patients, family members, nurses and physicians.

Organizationally, the Cardiac Cath and Noninvasive Labs and the Emergency Department were departments added to Critical Care Services as part of Arleen’s duties as Administrative Director of Critical Care in 2007.

When leadership was reorganized in 2008, Arleen was asked to become a Service Line Director of Critical Care and Interim Vice President of Inpatient Nursing.

In the fall of 2008, Arleen took on the responsibility of interim CNO. She became the hospital’s permanent CNO in April of 2009. Arleen’s priorities as CNO are to focus on employee engagement, quality care and patient satisfaction. One way to positively impact all three of these areas, she says, is to increase the amount of time nurses can spend at the patient’s bedside providing care. Arleen is now working with directors, nurse managers and frontline nurses to find and eliminate cumbersome processes so that nurses will have more opportunities to provide bedside care.

Before coming to Cheyenne Regional, Arleen was the Telemetry Unit Manager at Benefis Health System in Great Falls, Montana. While in Great Falls, she also worked as an ICU nurse and a House Supervisor.

Arleen received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the College of Saint. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota. She is now working on her Master of Science in Nursing degree from Regis University in Denver and is expected to graduate in December 2009.

As CNO, Arleen appreciates the opportunities she has to work with frontline staff, leadership and physicians to improve patient care and the overall experience at Cheyenne Regional for patients, families and staff. She wants the staff to know how well the Executive Team is working together on behalf of the hospital and community.

Arleen enjoys living in Cheyenne because it has both the amenities of a city and a small-town, friendly atmosphere. Arleen was raised in Minnesota so loves winter activities, including ice fishing and downhill skiing. She is married to an artist and has a 10-year-old son who is a Boy Scout. Arleen and her husband enjoy the outdoor activities and camping that go along with being parents of a Boy Scout. “He keeps us young!” she says.