Trauma Nurse Coordinator
- Coordinates campus specific Trauma Services daily operations to ensure efficiency, compliance and accuracy while maintaining optimum levels of patient and family satisfaction.
- Maintains compliance with regulatory agencies including the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Texas EMS Trauma Acute Care Foundation (TETAF), American College of Surgeons (ACS), ACS Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP), and/or Southeast Trauma Regional Advisory Council (SETRAC) to ensure appropriate trauma center level trauma designation requirements are achieved.
- Monitors trauma patient care from admission through operative interventions, ICU care, stabilization, rehabilitation, and discharge, including all trauma performance improvement.
- Continually strives to meet trauma program goals, monitors and reviews performance improvement initiatives, and tracks/reports performance and process improvement outcomes.
- Reviews processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs; identifies opportunities for improvement via benchmarking or other external comparisons.
- Generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions.
- Utilizes a team approach with organizational leaders and unit educators to coach and develop trauma multidisciplinary team members to ensure the delivery of high-quality trauma patient care and maintenance of trauma competencies.
- Demonstrates accountability for cost effective management of care and services while ensuring the department achieves patient care goals.
- Demonstrates effective communication skills with trauma team and ancillary departments to eliminate communication barriers.
- Bachelor's degree in nursing or associate degree in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or an associate degree in a related field accepted by the Texas Board of Nursing for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining an RN license or a technical diploma in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or Must be currently enrolled in a nursing bridge program working toward a BSN. Verified BSN-equivalency or a signed agreement is required.
- Licenses/Certifications
- Required RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact
- Required BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
- Required TNCC - Cert-Trauma Nursing Core Course by the Emergency Nurses Association
- Preferred ATCN – Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses
- Preferred TCRN – Trauma Certified Registered Nurses
- Required 5 years Clinical experience
- Preferred 3 years Trauma experience and Trauma Program Leadership experience with knowledge of Trauma Program requirements from the Texas department of state health services, Texas EMS Trauma & Acute Care Foundation (TETAF), and American College of Surgeons (ACS) trauma designation requirements.
- Completion of Trauma Outcomes Performance Improvement Course (TOPIC), Trauma Coordinators Core Course (TCCC), or Texas Trauma Designation Education Course (TTDEC) strongly encouraged within one year of hire.
- Completion of Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) AIS course, American Trauma Society (ATS) Trauma Program Manager course, ATS Trauma Registry course and/or Texas EMS Trauma Acute Care Foundation (TETAF) Hospital Data Management Course strongly encouraged.
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) preferred; ACLS encouraged.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Incident Command System (ICS) Courses ICS-100 and ICS-200 preferred
- Active participation within Trauma Regional Advisory Council (RAC) and Texas Trauma Coordinators Form (TTFC) strongly encouraged.
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