Trauma Program Coordinator

United Regional•Wichita Falls, TX

13h

About The Position

Responsible for assessing and identifying trauma patient needs and developing, implementing, and evaluating activities for Trauma Services. Focuses the healthcare team on achieving optimal patient outcomes and appropriate resource utilization, and supports, guides, and coordinates patients and caregivers toward optimal care outcomes. Serves as a program liaison to physicians and other healthcare professionals. The role also supports trauma registry operations, data quality and reporting, performance improvement, staff education, patient and family care coordination, injury prevention, and disaster management.

Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent.
Current licensure as a Registered Nurse with the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners.
Successful completion of ACLS, TNCC, and ENPC.
Five years of current experience in the emergency department and/or critical care.
Clinical competency in trauma nursing and ability to develop, implement, evaluate, and teach Trauma Services education activities.
Ability to communicate effectively in English, verbally and in writing.
Proficiency in unit-specific standards.
Ability to understand information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals, and labels; follow reasonable instructions; move between duties frequently; and record information accurately.
Ability to set priorities, make decisions based on available data, and supervise others.
Effective interpersonal, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to communicate orally and in writing with a wide range of healthcare professionals and senior leadership.
Critical-thinking, analytical, teaching/coaching, and research skills.
Good computer skills.
Ability to meet physical demands including extensive standing and walking, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, and pushing and pulling heavy objects.
Ability to work under stressful conditions and irregular hours; some exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids.
Full range of body motion, manual and finger dexterity, eye-hand coordination, and corrected vision and hearing within normal range.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
TCRN or CEN certification desirable.
TNCC and ENPC Instructor status optional.

Responsibilities

Assess and identify trauma patient needs using standards established by accrediting agencies, performance-improvement monitoring results, and requests from nursing administration or staff.
Collaborate with departmental and divisional personnel to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate staff programming within the corporation’s philosophy, goals, and objectives.
Review nursing and medical assessments of trauma patients and families, contribute information, and help resolve identified issues.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure patients receive care at the appropriate level.
Coordinate seamless inpatient and outpatient care tailored to clients’ situations and needs.
Assist with collecting, coding, and scoring trauma data and developing validation processes for registry data.
Ensure accurate trauma-registry data entry and maintain the registry in collaboration with the trauma registrar.
Monitor trauma outcomes and evaluate trends.
Assist with trauma-patient data collection and periodic reporting to the state registry, NTDB, and TQIP.
Identify opportunities for injury-prevention programming in local communities.
Assist in formulating patient-teaching protocols.
Participate in case review and performance-improvement activities, including review and data extraction for registry purposes.
Recognize trauma nurses’ educational needs and develop or deliver related education, including programs based on performance-improvement monitoring results.
Provide crisis intervention for patients and families and deliver pediatric and adult trauma care.
Practice triage, assist the public in appropriately accessing the healthcare system, and interface with pre-hospital care providers.
Support activation and implementation of hospital and community disaster management.
Demonstrate awareness of legal issues, patient rights, confidentiality, and reduced-risk management in patient-care situations.
Provide input into nursing performance-improvement activities and standards development as requested.
Serve as a clinical role model, demonstrating competency in emergencies and selected technical skills and maintaining required clinical competencies.
Support and adhere to hospital policies and procedures; perform other tasks and responsibilities as necessary.