RN Trauma Outreach Coordinator

Banner Health • Glendale, AZ

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About The Position

Great options and great opportunities. Banner Health has both the stability that comes with success and the values you can be proud to represent. If you’re looking to leverage your abilities – you belong at Banner Health. Banner Thunderbird's trauma center is equipped to handle the most critical and complex traumatic injuries, providing 24/7 emergency care with dedicated, specialized teams. Beyond treating injuries, Banner Thunderbird is committed to preventing them before they occur through active community engagement and education programs. We're looking for a dynamic professional who is passionate about public speaking and community education to help reduce injury patterns prevalent in our community. As a Trauma Outreach Coordinator, you'll leverage your nursing background and trauma knowledge to plan, coordinate, and implement injury prevention programs that make a real difference. This role engages directly with the community to promote safety and wellness—bringing your clinical insights to schools, community organizations, and public events. Are you a nurse with trauma experience and a passion for injury prevention? Banner Thunderbird Medical Center is seeking a Trauma Outreach Coordinator who wants to take their clinical expertise beyond the bedside and into the community. If you're comfortable with public speaking and excited about preventing the injuries you've treated, this is your opportunity to create lasting impact. Your pay and benefits are important components of your journey at Banner Health. This opportunity includes the option to participate in a variety of health, financial, and security benefits. Banner Health’s premier West Valley Level I Trauma for adults and Tertiary Care destination for all ages. Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (BTMC) and Banner Children’s Hospital at Thunderbird provide a preferred destination for surgical, oncological, cardiovascular, neuroscience, orthopedic, pediatric, and women and infant services achieved through best-in-class 5-star CMS rating to provide patients with high quality, safe care for the best possible experience. Our campus is one of the largest campuses in the Banner network with over 3000 employees. BTMC was voted Best of the Best in 2023 by Banner Health out of 30 hospitals. This is the most prestigious award one of our largest hospitals can receive for consistently meeting our annual targets. If you would like to contribute to truly leading edge caring, we invite you to bring your experience and skills to Banner Thunderbird. POSITION SUMMARY This position is a resource for all facilities and Emergency Medical Services within their specific Trauma Advisory Committee region, and all organizational facilities in the area. Works to promote and provide optimal care of the trauma patient through coordination and liaison activities for their facility and others as needed. Provides for community education and injury prevention activities. Works to promote and provide optimal care operations for injured patients through coordination and liaison activities to the community agencies and outer lying facilities for which their facility is a referral center. Ensures compliance with injury prevention and outreach requirements as outlined by the state and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) regulation criteria for maintaining the Trauma Level for their facility.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience equivalent to a Bachelors Degree in Nursing.
• RN licensure in state of practice required.
• BLS certification required.
• Minimum of five years clinical experience in a high patient acuity area including emergency, ICU, trauma, and/or EMS and aeromedical.
• PC and computer skills including: word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software and publishing software.
• Demonstrate proficient interpersonal and customer service communication skills; professional interaction with all individuals and public organizations associated with the trauma program.

Nice To Haves

• Three to five years prior experience working as a Trauma Nurse Coordinator or in trauma outreach and experience working in a hospital based trauma program.
• Certification as Trauma Nurse Core Course Provider OR Instructor preferred.
• Certification in Pediatric trauma course (PALS) or (ENPC) and Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) preferred.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for attendance and participation in quality improvement meetings and operations for outreach facilities, as invited. Works closely with the facility Trauma Services Medical Director to provide quality improvement review and feedback to these facilities as outlined in the outreach criteria delineated by the state to maintain Trauma Level for their facility.
• Responsible for community education and injury prevention involvement by participating in community and state wide programs and organization designed for such. Attends and participates in meetings, activities, and presentations sponsored by these organizations to provide education and injury prevention for the local community. In addition, attendance to any regulatory meetings regarding injury prevention is required. Prevention activities will coordinate with injury occurrences presenting to the facility trauma services registry, in accordance with standards outlined in the Trauma Center verification requirements.
• Serves as a liaison between the facility and other facilities or agencies included in their Trauma Advisory Council region. This role is responsible for information dissemination to and from all such facilities and agencies involved in trauma care in the defined region. Represents the facility by required attendance to local agency committees designed to coordinate and collaborate with participating trauma organizations. Ensures appropriate service interaction and communication with committee members, customers, and agencies involved and encountered.
• Assists as needed with ACS site survey preparation as directed. Also assists with trauma education by participating in monthly trauma CME education acquisition of speakers. Participates in facility and organization trauma conference planning and preparation as directed. Assists with coordination and teaching of trauma courses such as ABLS, TNCC, ENPC as needed, and participates with trauma education/orientation improvement as directed.
• Serves as a resource for trauma data registry collection including Clinical Data Management (CDM) registry, evaluation of data, preparation of periodic reports reflecting trauma systems operations and all statistical information relevant to patient outcomes. Similarly, serves as a resource to other organizational facilities who utilize CDM as their trauma registry program.
• Responsible for patient care following and case review, abstraction and ICD-9/AIS coding of patient data of all trauma patients transferred into facility from other facilities. Provides follow up information and education to transferring facilities in accordance with confidentiality regulations. Attends weekly and monthly meetings of the Trauma Services Program as necessary to provide outreach education to facilities included with patient follow up of care.
• This role requires continuous injury prevention and trauma outreach competency assurance for quality improvement consistent with state and American College of Surgeons trauma program requirements.

Benefits

• This opportunity includes the option to participate in a variety of health, financial, and security benefits.
• We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefit package for all benefit-eligible positions. Please visit our Benefits Guide for more information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level