Current & Potential Employees Nursing at CoxHealth A culture of growth, education and support. Nursing is a rewarding and demanding career. At CoxHealth, we recognize and appreciate your commitment, and have created a culture designed to help you thrive. If you're ready to be part of a team, and part of an organization that's leading the way, read on. Positions at CoxHealth Nursing Job Opportunities Learn about the different kinds of opportunities we have available for nurses at CoxHealth. Learn More about Nursing Job Opportunities Graduate Nurse Residency A graduate nursing residency with CoxHealth includes extensive lab and classroom training, followed by monthly education sessions and the assistance of a peer mentor, clinical educator and nurse manager. Learn More about Graduate Nurse Residency Nursing Resources Nursing Perks & Career Progression We offer benefits like tuition assistance and student loan repayment. We're also committed to helping our nurses advance to have the careers they want. Learn More about Nursing Perks & Career Progression CoxHealth System Nursing Statistics See statistics about nurses working at hospitals, such as educational levels and community involvement. Learn More about CoxHealth System Nursing Statistics A Message From Our System Chief Nursing Officer Beth Polivka, MOL, BSN, RN, CENP I love to reflect and remember moments – especially the people who make moments happen) on a consistent basis! It can be easy to constantly look forward to what is next or might be around the corner. However, I have found that if we don’t also take the time to look back, we miss appreciating the great things we have accomplished together. Reflecting also brings vibrancy and gratitude for what we can accomplish tomorrow, too. Looking back over the past year, one word just kept jumping out at me: HONOR. What does the word honor mean? When consulting the dictionary, I found it defined as “high respect; great esteem; something regarded as a rare opportunity that brings pride and pleasure; regarded with great admiration.” This past year, the teams that make up nursing services brought great honor to the work done every day and great honor to each other. Across the system, Cox Medical Center Branson and Cox Monett both achieved five-star quality ratings – the highest possible achievement in CMS’s overall hospital quality ratings. This honor resulted from the consistency and hard work required to deliver patient outcomes to meet five-star thresholds. Cox Barton County Hospital was also awarded “Best Practice” designation by the National Rural Health Association. This means Cox Barton not only ranked in the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) for quality across the U.S., but was also the only CAH honored in Missouri. Within Cox Medical Group (CMG), our ALS Clinic received national recognition as a center of excellence, and collectively, CMG continued to provide care in over 1.5 million clinic visits. Cox Medical Centers, consisting of our three Springfield hospitals and the nursing units from Martin Center, CoxHealth Surgery Center, Wheeler Heart and Vascular Center, and Hulston Cancer Center, were officially designated through the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program®. Magnet designation is nursing’s highest honor, bestowed on only 9% of U.S. hospitals. This achievement came from more than 10 years of hard work, dedication, and commitment from all members of the nursing care team and nursing leaders. It was also a joy to honor so many of our talented team members over the past year. We were able to delight and surprise 28 nurses with DAISY Awards for going above and beyond with kindness and compassion in the care of patients. We honored 28 support staff with Sunshine Awards for being outstanding members of our care team, and 488 licensed nurses received clinical ladder designations. We now have over 900 nurses systemwide with professional specialty certification and 70 employees who have advanced their nursing careers. I hope each of our nurses and team members reflect and enjoy the feeling of great pride and admiration for who we are as members of nursing services and all that they have accomplished. I hope everyone, from direct care staff to leaders to community members, is filled with respect like I am for the amazing people who work within our system. Individually, as system chief nursing officer, I pray that each employee knows how much I HONOR, value, and respect how they care for each other and our patients as we fulfill our mission to serve at CoxHealth. I feel such a privilege to be a member of the team with you. With deepest appreciation,Beth PolivkaSystem Chief Nursing Officer, CoxHealth Nursing at CoxHealth Now Offering: Uncapped Loan Repayment CoxHealth is celebrating newly hired nurses and graduate nurse residents (GNRs) who help us staff our mission-critical hospital units with a one-time offer of unlimited payments toward student loans. right Learn More