Registered Nurse - Skin Wound Ostomy Team - Full Time - Day Shift

Facility:
CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807






Department:
1106 Skin Wound Ostomy Team South

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Hours:
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)

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, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group .
- Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
- Healthcare Innovation's  Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

- Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
- For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here:  Benefits | CoxHealth

Typical wound focused SWOT RN hours will be M-F 8-4:30, however hour requirements may change based on department needs at discretion of nurse manager. Holiday coverage is covered by rotation of employees with 3 holidays needed per employee per year (timeframe is February to February). Wound focused SWOT nurses do rotate through weekend coverage. When scheduled to cover weekends SWOT nurse will have one day off the week prior to and after weekend coverage.

Job Description:
For this role, the Skin/Wound/Ostomy nurse’s primary duty will be to see wound patients in the inpatient setting. However, this nurse will also be cross trained in ostomy care.
The Skin/Wound/Ostomy nurse role specializes in the management of patients with Skin, Wound and Ostomy needs. This includes but not limited to, urinary and fecal diversions (i.e. ostomies), draining wounds and fistulas, fecal and urinary incontinence, and acute and chronic wounds such as post-operative surgical wounds requiring packing or negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), pressure ulcers and vascular ulcers. The nurse must be able to assess patient condition and help develop a plan of care, administer medications, change dressings, manage NPWT pumps (wound vacs) and mark ostomy sites pre-operatively. The Skin/Wound/Ostomy nurse provides support and education to patients and their families, including but not limited to pre and post-operative teaching, wound care, ostomy care, and ostomy appliance maintenance/trouble-shooting.
Education:
▪ Required: Graduate of an accredited nursing program
▪ Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
Experience:
▪ Preferred: One year of bedside nursing experience within the last five years
▪ Preferred: Previous recent acute care med/surg nursing experience
▪ Preferred: Wound and/or Ostomy experience
Skills:
▪ Excellent verbal and written communication skills
▪ Demonstrate effective leadership abilities
▪ Exhibits valuable time management skills
▪ Strong critical thinking/problem solving skills
▪ Flexibility and ability to work in a multi-tasking environment
Licensure/Certification/Registration:
▪ Required: RN license active in the state of Missouri

Required: BLS must be obtained within 90 days of hire
▪ Required: Role within department is primarily focused in wound care, therefore must obtain CWCN from WOCNCB, CWS or WCC within 24 months of hire. If employee has a BSN, the CWCN certification is required instead of CWS or WCC.