Registered Nurse - Trauma Acute Care Surgery

Decypher•Bethesda, MD

23h•$68•Onsite

About The Position

Join Decypher and make a direct impact on the health and readiness of America’s service members, veterans, and their families. Since 2008 Decypher has offered healthcare industry professionals careers where their expertise is valued, and their work makes a meaningful impact. Decypher partners with the Defense Health Agency to deliver professional services, technology, and management solutions. Our mission is to provide and support quality care for our veterans, servicemembers and their families, across the United States.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree of Registered Nursing from a college or university accredited by Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Trauma Certified RN
Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse in the United States.
Minimum of 5 years of concurrent nursing experience with 3 years in either critical care or trauma nursing, emergency nursing, or inpatient perioperative nursing.
Trauma PI Coordinator must have the above nursing experience plus one year minimum of Performance Improvement or Patient Safety experience or proof of comparable education/training.
U.S. Citizenship is required

Responsibilities

Assist the Trauma Program Manager and Trauma Medical Director with development, maintenance, coordination, and continuous improvement of a comprehensive trauma program across multidisciplinary teams and the continuum of care.
Perform concurrent and retrospective chart audits, case reviews, core measure reviews, and focused audits to identify complications, performance improvement opportunities, variances, and compliance with clinical practice guidelines and trauma verification requirements.
Abstract and maintain trauma registry data in accordance with required definitions and guidelines; conduct trend and gap analyses; develop standardized and ad hoc reports, presentations, and information briefs; and support data integrity and inter-rater reliability.
Support peer review and multidisciplinary quality initiatives; develop and monitor corrective action plans using methodologies such as PDSA, Root Cause Analysis, Fishbone, process mapping, Lean Six Sigma, and Failure Mode Effect Analysis; and evaluate the effectiveness of process improvements.
Facilitate trauma and quality meetings, rounds, and case reviews; document minutes and action items; provide staff education and training; collaborate with the Joint Trauma System and military/civilian treatment facilities; and support trauma research, education, injury prevention, and program initiatives.