CoxHealth

Summary

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 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

Overview of Unit/Department

• This position is not a remote position. This position will be located in our Virtual Care Command Center located at Cox South Hospital**

Are you looking to be a part of a brand new and interesting branch of healthcare?! Virtual Nursing may be just for you! Our Virtual Nursing Command Center is full of advanced technology that gives our patients an extra level of monitoring from admission to discharge. Our virtual nurses are centrally located in the Virtual Command Center at Cox South. They use this technology to support our bedside RNs with tasks to make lighten their workload as well as monitor patient’s vital signs, assist with admissions and discharges, and collaborate with our virtual physicians, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and Early Intervention Team! If you are on the search for a new way to expand your nursing knowledge come and give Virtual Nursing a go!

Additional Information About the Position for Qualified Candidates

• $1.00 Certification pay
• $1.00 BSN pay
• Career Ladder Bonus eligible up to $5,000.00

Job Summary

The Early Intervention Team (EIT) Nurse is a registered professional nurse who functions under the direction of the Nurse Manager and is responsible for coordination of EIT assessment of patient, prioritization and implementation of interventions to ensure optimal patient outcomes, documentation of interventions and outcomes, communication with other team members and disciplines, and safe delivery of age appropriate and culturally aware patient care. As an EIT Nurse you will also be responsible for:

• Addressing the patient/family biological, emotional, developmental, psychosocial and education needs. The EIT Nurse serves as a resource/support to the staff, physicians, patients, families, and other departments.
• Rapid Response calls, follow-up visits, EIT data collection, entry and analysis, development of EIT practice guidelines, evaluation of patient codes and informal education of staff.
• Managing rapid prevention and treatment of patients experiencing sepsis, CVA, respiratory distress, acute coronary syndrome and other comorbidities.
• Recognizing, assessing, coordinating, interpreting clinical surveillance data, re-evaluating the nursing care plan of patients and communicating that plan to the assigned team members and bedside clinical team.
• Possessing an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of nursing care for a specific unit patient population to include patients and their families, utilizing conscientious consideration for patients with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Performing crisis intervention as a first priority and be a lead resource when responding to Rapid Response, Code Blue, Class 1 Stroke, In-House STEMI and In-House Trauma.
• Being regarded as a resource and subject matter expert for staff on patient care issues.
• Providing consultative assessments to help facilitate higher level transfers within the hospital.

Job Requirements

• Education
  • Required: Graduate of an accredited nursing program

Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

• Experience
  • Minimum 2 years recent acute Intensive Care Unit RN experience required, 5 years preferred.

Working knowledge of applicable Policies and Lippincott Procedure.

• Skills
  • Ability to read, write and speak the English language
  • Strong customer service and interpersonal skills
  • Inter- and intra-departmental coordination of patient care activities
  • Delegation skills required; Ability to multi-task essential
  • Ability to function in stressful and emergency situations essential
  • Strong detail orientation required
  • Computer skills required
  • Personal time management skills are required
  • Collaboration with multiple provider groups
  • Complete tasks as described in the Early Intervention Team Roles
  • Compliance with the American Nurses' Association Code of Ethics for Professional Nurses is required
  • Demonstrates knowledge of and practices within parameters outlined in Missouri Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act.
• Licensure/Certification/Registration
  • Required: RN license active in the state of Missouri

Required: American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS) certification at time of hire.

Required: Must obtain ACLS within one year of hire

Required: Annual NIHSS Certification at time of hire

ANCC Specialty Certification preferred

Complete Cox Health Dedicated Rapid Response Team Education at time of hire