Director of Trauma Burn and Children Surgery

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

Clinical Activities:

• Coordinates with physicians, nurses and other hospital staff to evaluate and address specific patient care issues.
• Affirms the need for policies, procedures, protocols, supplies and equipment relating to the care of trauma patients in coordination with the Trauma Medical Director, hospital administration and clinicians.
• Identifies the need for and coordinates the development and implementation of clinical pathways for trauma patients incorporating members from the multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain clinical expertise by participating yearly in trauma educational events.
• Monitors and evaluates that positive substance abuse screenings trigger a substance abuse consult.

Education Responsibilities:

• Facilitates community trauma education and prevention programs reflective of injury patterns identified through the Trauma Registry in conjunction with the Injury Prevention Coordinator.
• Develops, coordinates and implements nursing education related to care and management of trauma patients in conjunction with the Center for Practice Excellence and unit Clinical Managers.
• Coordinates and provides pre-hospital provider educational events.
• Serves as a committee member for the Pediatric Trauma Conference.
• Participates in the New England Trauma Program Managers Regional Trauma Registry Conference.

Performance Improvement Activities:

• Aids the Trauma Medical Director in the development, implementation and evaluation of a Performance Improvement plan that is multidisciplinary and focused on patient outcomes.
• Oversees the Pediatric Trauma Coordinator and Performance Improvement Coordinator, who are responsible for the identification, investigation, reporting and follow-up of incidents and quality of care issues throughout the program, while, maintaining confidentiality.
• Coordinates quarterly reports to the institution’s Quality Assurance Department.

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Coordinates ACS-COT site Trauma Center verification visits in accordance with ACS-COT guidelines.
• Participates in the ABA Burn Center verification by maintaining the Burn database and coordinating the PI process to ensure effective loop closure documentation.
• Supervises the Trauma Registry staff which includes the trauma and burn registrars, Data Management Coordinator and Performance Improvement Nurses.
• Oversees the Pediatric Trauma Program Manager, Burn Program Manager, and the Children’s Surgery Program Manager.
• Ensures that the programs comply the ACS and ABA requirements to maintain verification.
• Represents the Trauma Program on various hospital and community committees to enhance and foster optimal trauma care management.
• Manages, as appropriate, the operational, personnel and financial aspects of the Trauma Program.
• Supervises adherence to hospital policies, procedures, and standards through Annual Mandatory training of Trauma Registry staff.
• Coordinates and facilitates the monthly Trauma Committee Meeting.
• Attends and maintains documentation of Trauma Division meetings: Trauma Committee/PIP, Pediatric Trauma Committee/PIP, Trauma Mortality and Morbidity, Monday Morning Trauma Conference, Morning Report, TPOPS Meeting, Trauma Operations in the Emergency Department, Combined ED/Trauma Conference, ED Mortality and Morbidity related to trauma.
• Supervises the productivity of the Trauma Registry through weekly and monthly reports.
• Creates and maintains policies and procedures governing the Trauma Registry to maintain a timely and valid database.
• Ensures the integrity of data entry by conducting routine chart abstraction validation.
• Creates and implements action plans on issues identified by the Data Management Coordinator within the database.
• Provides reports for use in clinical, research, financial, educational, and legislative activities related to trauma care.
• Ensures continued educational opportunities for the registry staff.
• Serve as an internal resource for staff in other departments to network in order to provide high quality trauma patient care.
• Act as an extended liaison for Emergency Medical Service agencies.
• Develop inter-facility systems with other providers through procedure consistency, communication systems and processes which will enhance the quality of care for trauma patients.

Research Involvement:

• Involvement in research protocol development, creation and distribution of requested research reports and maintain log of requested reports from registry.
• Coordinate with the Trauma Research Nurse to be updated on all current trauma research and its publication/presentation status.

Community/National Involvement:

• Participate in the development of trauma care systems at the community, state, and national level.
• Serve as the Advisory Member to the ACS State Committee on Trauma Education.