Palliative Care Nurse

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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 by Newsweek.
  • Recognized as a 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.
  • Ranked among the Best Employers by State for Missouri.

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement Plan with employer match, and many more!
  • For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Additional Information About the Position for Qualified Candidates

  • $1.00 Certification Pay
  • $1.00 BSN pay

Job Summary

  • Serves in a consultative and collaborative role with the physician and other members of the palliative care and case management teams to deliver palliative care and related services to patients and families. Guide performance improvement and department development via strategic planning and by providing education to healthcare staff, patients, and their families about available resources, pain/symptom management in advanced disease and end of life care.
Job Requirements
  • Education
    • Required: Graduate of an approved nursing program
    • Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
  • Experience
    • Required: Minimum one (1) year experience as professional nurse within the last three (3) years.
    • Preferred: 2 years in hospice or palliative care.
  • Skills
    • Strong critical thinking skills; demonstrates competent clinical judgement through use of the nursing process to assess physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and their family.
    • Good understanding of advanced illness conditions including course of illness, prognostic factors, common complications, symptoms and palliative care approach.
    • General understanding of Medicare Hospice Benefit, hospice philosophy, services and criteria for admission.
    • Clinical competency in palliative care and end of life care.
    • Assists in development of clinical practice guidelines in support of quality palliative care.
  • Licensure/Certification/Registration
    • Required: MO RN license
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Specialties:

  1. Nursing

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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.