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A Brief Overview
The Trauma Program Coordinator is a registered nurse who works closely with nursing, medical staff, and other departments to enhance patient outcomes, develop and implement quality improvement initiatives, and maintain trauma certification requirements. Additionally, this role involves tracking and reporting data related to trauma cases, educating staff, and promoting a collaborative environment that prioritizes patient safety and care.
Essential Functions
- • Coordinates Performance Improvement/Patient Safety Program initiatives that are mandated by regulatory requirements and/or promote evidenced based clinical outcomes for the pediatric trauma patient population. • Identify, analyze, track, trend, report and educate about process and outcomes measures at Children's Nebraska and the trauma program and assist with identification of improvement opportunities. • Monitor clinical processes, outcomes and systems issues related to the quality of care provided. • Responsible for maintaining tracking system for case reviews, system issues, audit filters, and PI/Peer Review reports in collaboration with trauma team and other service areas to ensure loop closure. • Report issues that affect quality, practice, outcome and costs and work collaboratively with trauma program leadership as needed for resolution. • Maintains an environment which supports the application of quality improvement strategies. Under the direction of the Trauma Program Director, may be assigned to coordinate participation in benchmarking or regulatory efforts such as the American College of Surgeons (ACS) requirements, Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) benchmarking program, or other regulatory/accreditation agencies. • Coordinate outreach and education activities specific to the trauma patient for healthcare providers at the organization, as well as the community and public. • Coordinates educational and outreach activities of the trauma program to include Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers and referral hospital education. • Develop, coordinate, and implement education programs related to care and management of trauma patients in conjunction with unit leaders and clinical educators. • Coordinate and/or teach new or established education programs including but not limited to: TNCC, PTACC, Stop the Bleed. • Coordinate trauma related continuing education offerings for Children's Nebraska and the community. • Provide trauma population specific education to staff, students, and internal and external healthcare providers as necessary. • Coordinate trauma performance improvement, outreach, and injury prevention activities specific to the trauma patient for healthcare providers at the organization, as well as the community and public. • Analyze trauma registry data to identify and prioritize injury strategies based on local trauma registry and epidemiologic data. • Partners with hospital staff, community groups and agencies, public service organizations, other healthcare organizations, school, districts, national organizations, and other system-based programs to deliver collaborative injury prevention programs to diverse populations. • Evaluate the impact of injury prevention activities. • Maintain required documentation to ensure compliance with required hospital, ACS, and state designation standards. • Coordinate, participate, and/or assist with marketing or media related activities to promote a variety of trauma and injury prevention related activities. • Coordinate the provision of trauma performance improvement, outreach, and injury prevention education to patients, as well as hospital and community groups.
- • Demonstrate personal and professional leadership to achieve organizational and clinical program goals. • Serve as a trauma program liaison for program continuity. • Identify and implement cost effective strategies to meet quality, patient safety, or infection prevention requirements. • Participate in committees and/or task forces to help implement effective strategies. • Organize, define and executes projects while managing timeline, skills and deliverables. • Assist trauma registry staff with data collection and data entry as necessary • Write, evaluate, and provide reports, as necessary, from the trauma registry to enhance patient care delivery, assess improvement opportunities, and provide organizational feedback.
- • Coordinate planning, developing, organizing, and evaluating trauma and related critical care program policies and procedures. • Coordinate development, review and update of trauma care policies and procedures related to care of the trauma patient based on evidenced-based clinical guidelines. • Ensure policy and procedure are effectively communicated to staff and appropriate areas and ensure that implementation of new and/or changes in policy are carried out in an effective manner. • Review selected documentation for compliance and work with emergency department/critical care management to take appropriate action to resolve any identified issues. • Coordinate activities required to maintain designation for comprehensive trauma center designation and verification.
- • Attend and participate in statewide and regional trauma meetings as directed. • Assist Regional Referral Hospitals in obtaining and maintaining their State Trauma designation and act as a resource for education and information on trauma issues relative to those hospitals.
- Regular attendance at work is an essential function of the job.
- Perform physical requirements as described in the Physical Requirements section
- Performs other duties as assigned
Education Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Nursing Required
Experience Qualifications
- Minimum of three years recent clinical experience in trauma, emergency, or critical care required. Required
Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of Nebraska Department of Health and American College of Surgeons' Standards preferred
- The basic principles of performance improvement
- Methods and mechanisms of using data to evaluate safety and performance
- The relationship between variation and outcome
- Demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience in data entry & abstraction from web-based programs related to core measures preferred
- Turning data into information
- Team building and team leading
- Strong patient focus and commitment to continuous process excellence
- Must demonstrate positive interpersonal relationship skills with individuals and groups in a wide variety of settings
- Effective critical thinking skills
- Able to do strategic planning and project management
- Skills in negotiation, problem solving, educational, and quality improvement strategies are necessary
- Should be a creative, flexible, risk taker
Licenses and Certifications
- RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure Current and valid Nebraska RN license Upon Hire Required and
- Health Services\BCLS - Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association Upon Hire Required and
- PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support Upon Hire Required and
- TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course Upon Hire Required
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