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CoxHealth
Springfield, Missouri

Admin Director of Nursing - Women's & Procedural Services

Registered NurseNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Facility

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

Department: 1023 Nursing Admin South

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Hours: Varied

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

Job Description

Coordinates and directs care given by other team members. Addresses system issues to facilitate the provision of quality efficient care. The incumbent provides oversight and management of operational, regulatory, and business processes across the system.

The position leads their departments in facilitating change, fostering innovation and self-development to achieve excellence in operations, patient safety and quality. Excellent communication skills, leadership ability, time management, and problem solving skills required.

Education

  • Required: Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • Preferred: Masters Degree

Experience

Required: 3 - 5 years’ previous hospital or nursing management experience

Skills

  • Represents the departments on several process improvement, standardization, and regulatory committees
  • Operates strategic plan by setting and monitoring key performance measures and goals
  • Determines scope of care or service in relation to values, mission, and strategic plan of the institution
  • Assist with developing their departments’ long term plans
  • Working knowledge in human relations, customer service, inventory management, and budget management
  • Ability to work with multiple people while meeting numerous requests and deadlines
  • Goal oriented with initiative and potentials for self-development. Maintains organizational and priority setting skills
  • Delegates appropriately to other team members

Licensure/Certification/Registration

  • Required: Nursing License active in the state of Missouri
  • Preferred: Professional nursing certification

Key Responsibilities

The Admin Director coordinates and directs nursing care while overseeing operational, regulatory, and business processes across the system. They lead departments in facilitating change and fostering innovation to ensure excellence in patient safety and quality.

Requirements

The role requires a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and an active Missouri nursing license. Candidates must have 3-5 years of previous hospital or nursing management experience.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Operational oversightRegulatory complianceStrategic planningQuality assurance

Women's Health — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 50 active Nursing Leadership listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 54% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

How many Nursing Leadership jobs are remote?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score5.1 / 10 · top 25% in nursing leadershipranked against 1,187 Nursing Leadership listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedNursing Leadership median $115k (middle half $100k–$135k)99 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingMissouri index 90.8US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Nursing Leadership listings in Missouri148 active5,842 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 40% remote · 54% no call · 66% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedMissouri Registered Nurse listings: 13% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 0% offer loan repayment148 active listings, Nov 2026
New Women's Health listings32 in the last 30 days32 the 30 days before (about the same)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (1,187 Nursing Leadership listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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CME allowance
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 5.1
Better work-life than 80% of Nursing Leadership listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,187 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About CoxHealth

Hospitals and Health Care
Springfield, MO
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Vision, Dental
Retirement with Employer Match
Paid time off

Living in Springfield

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$235k
Typical market rent
$1,192/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
88.6
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Springfield, MO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.