Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator - Trauma Services Department - Part-Time

About the Role

The Trauma Performance Improvement (PI) Coordinator identifies, verifies, and investigates complications and events involving trauma patients. Under minimal supervision from the Trauma Program Manager and/or Trauma Medical Director, they analyze trends and lead the performance improvement and quality assurance activities of the trauma program from pre-hospital through discharge. The role involves utilizing improvement methodologies and group management techniques to support teams through initiatives, developing action plans, and ensuring loop closure for quality of care and risk issues. The coordinator focuses on increasing efficiencies, reducing variability, errors, and defects using program data and trauma best practices. Responsibilities include preparing reports, providing education, and applying continuous improvement methodologies to spread innovation. The role adheres to the latest ACS criteria for trauma performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Identify, verify, and investigate complications and events involving trauma patients.
• Analyze trends and lead performance improvement and quality assurance activities for the trauma program.
• Utilize improvement methodologies and group management techniques to support teams through initiatives.
• Develop action plans and ensure loop closure/event resolution for quality of care and risk issues.
• Focus on initiatives to increase efficiencies and reduce variability, errors, and defects using program data and trauma best practices.
• Prepare reports and recommendations for leadership and stakeholders.
• Provide education to team members as needed.
• Apply new continuous improvement methodologies to spread successful innovation throughout the hospital.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or a healthcare-related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience.
• Two (2) years of project management, process improvement, or risk management experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and varied databases.
• Emergency Department or Trauma/Surgical Critical Care experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Professional certification required within three (3) years of hire (TCRN, CEN, CCRN, or CPHQ preferred).
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN), or Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certification preferred; must complete one within eighteen (18) months of hire.
• Additional certifications may be required based on experience and departmental needs.

Schedule

Day shift.

Organization: Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, Trauma Services Department.