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Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) - Outpatient Oncology

Job Description

About Us

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.

Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces in Health Care by Newsweek.

Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces by Newsweek in 2024.

Recognized as the Greatest Workplace for Women in both 2023 and 2024.

Listed as one of the Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2024.

Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads in 2023.

Ranked among the Best Employers by State for Missouri.

Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare in 2025.

Benefits

Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement Plan with employer match, and many more!

For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Summary
  • The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in Outpatient Oncology provides basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. This includes performing duties such as checking vital signs, and assisting patients with bathing, dressing, ambulation, repositioning, changing linens and other duties as assigned. CNAs are responsible to obtain information related to patient condition as requested by the nursing staff, and to report pertinent changes. Additional duties of the CNA include but are not limited to: retrieving nutritional orders from the main hospital on a weekly basis; verifying that all nutritional items are within proper date range for expiration; obtaining blood products from blood bank; transporting specimens to the main laboratory at Cox South, transporting patients as needed via wheelchair to other departments and when exiting after discharge; and maintaining a clean and safe environment by using hospital approved disinfectants to sanitize chairs, beds, and patient care areas after each patient use.
Job Requirements
  • Education
    • Preferred: High School Diploma or Equivalent
  • Experience
    • No prior experience required
  • Skills
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Exhibits valuable time management skills
    • Strong analytical/problem solving skills.
    • Flexibility and ability to work in a multi-tasking environment
  • Licensure/Certification/Registration
    • Required: MO CNA License OR must have MO CNA Appendix AND MO CNA license must be obtained within 120 days of hire AND BLS must be obtained within 90 days

Why CoxHealth?

We are a health system that includes six hospitals with over 80 clinics and 537 physicians serving 24 counties. CoxHealth is Missouri’s first hospital system accredited by DNV Healthcare for quality and patient safety. All six hospitals, as well as our outpatient centers and provider-based clinics, hold this national distinction from DNV’s accreditation program, the National Integrated Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The hospital is also the only facility in the region to receive the ANCC Magnet designation, which recognizes excellence in nursing. We are the only local health system named six times to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Regional Hospitals list, and we are recognized by CareChex as among the Top 10 percent of U.S. hospitals for medical excellence and patient safety in overall medical care.