RN Trauma Process Improvement Coordinator

About the role

Join Baylor Scott and White Medical Center - Grapevine as a Trauma Process Improvement Coordinator RN. You'll work with the Manager of Trauma Programs to manage the Trauma Performance Enhancement Program, overseeing trauma care services to ensure excellent attention and recovery for patients. You'll organize performance enhancement activities, including gathering information, researching, tracking progress, and comparing data with benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Trauma Program Manager and Trauma Medical Director to create a Trauma Process Improvement Program.
• Ensure the trauma program meets local regulations and accreditation standards.
• Track patient care issues in trauma process improvement and ensure resolution for each one.
• Participate in assessing, developing, implementing, and evaluating processes and education improvements for trauma patient care.
• Integrate the trauma registry into the trauma PI process.
• Fuse trauma PI strategies with broader hospital or system PI strategies.
• Update Trauma Department Dashboards and review PI project results for dashboard metrics to assess.
• Create trauma education programs based on research and evidence.
• Provide trauma education in the Emergency Department and coordinate outreach education programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN).
• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure.
• 3 years of RN experience, with 1 year of recent ICU or ER experience in a Trauma Level 1 or 2 hospital.
• BLS and ACLS certification required.
• PALS or ENPC certification required within 30 or 180 days, respectively.
• Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) or Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) certification required within 180 days.
• Trauma Outcome Performance Improvement Course completion required within 12 months.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have experience in chart review/abstraction and be familiar with trauma process improvement terms and standards. They will also have awareness and proficiency in established standards and procedures relating to nursing and patient care, as well as insight into laws, rules, regulations, standards, protocols, and policies that govern nursing care.

Benefits

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits.
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1.