Trauma Program Coordinator / Trauma*

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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, evaluat