Nurse Assistant/Nurse Assistant Apprentice - Care - Float

About UsCoxHealth 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 on 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

$1,800 sign on bonus, up to 24 hours of front-loaded Personal Time OffRelocation bonus available for qualified candidates (if applicable)

Certified Nurse Assistant, Nurse Assistant, or Nurse Assistant Apprentices are eligible to applyNurse Assistant Apprenticeship

Job Summary

Functions within a classroom and clinical learning environment to obtain training as unlicensed assistive personnel. While in the clinical learning environment, will provide basic patient care under direction and supervision of clinical educator and nursing staff. During clinical rotation, may perform duties such as taking vitals, bathing, dressing, moving patients, changing linens and other duties within their scope of practice as directed. While in clinical setting, obtains information on patient condition as requested by the nursing staff or clinical educator and reports any changes in patient condition. At the end of the training, a competency assessment will be administered to validate learning.

Job Requirements

EducationPreferred: High School Diploma or EquivalentExperiencePreferred: Prior patient care or health care related experienceSkills

Excellent verbal and written communication skillsExhibits valuable time management skillsStrong analytical/problem solving skills.Flexibility and ability to work in a multi-tasking environment.Is available for work on a consistent and timely basisConscientious, thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks

Licensure/Certification/Registration

BLS must be obtained within 90 days

Certified Nurse Assistant/Nurse Assistant

Job Summary

Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties such as take vitals, bathe, dress, move patients, change linens and other duties as assigned. Obtains information on patient condition as requested by the nursing staff, and reports any changes in patient condition.

Job Requirements

EducationPreferred: High School Diploma or EquivalentExperienceRequired:

3 months experience as a nursing assistant in an inpatient or long-term care setting, EMT, or Surgical Technologist in the past 3 years ORCompleted an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Program within the past 3 years ORCompleted the "fundamentals of nursing" course with clinical in an accredited nursing program or practical nursing education program ORMust have Missouri CNA License ORMust have MO CNA Appendix AND MO CNA license must be obtained within 120 days of hire

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skillsExhibits valuable time management skillsStrong analytical/problem solving skills.Flexibility and ability to work in a multi-tasking environment.

Licensure/Certification/Registration

BLS must be obtained within 90 days