Trauma Nurse Coordinator

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Day (United States of America)

Full‑time, Days.

The Trauma Nurse Coordinator is a registered nurse who works under the direction of the Trauma Program Manager to coordinate clinical, operational, and performance improvement initiatives. The role functions as a bedside resource to trauma patient care.

• Attend trauma activations to participate in care and serve as a resource person to enhance trauma team performance.
• Collaborate with the Trauma Team to assure coverage for time‑sensitive responsibilities and duties; serve as a resource to patients and families to ensure optimal trauma care provision.
• Attend multidisciplinary rounds with the Trauma Team.
• Serve as a liaison to clinical areas responsible for the care of the trauma patient.

• Facilitate multidisciplinary performance activities related to trauma patient care and outcomes.
• Support and assist in designing trauma process improvement and continuous quality enhancement projects.
• Perform concurrent medical record monitoring and data collection.
• Coordinate the trauma performance improvement program.
• Evaluate both clinical and Trauma Registry data, in conjunction with Trauma Program Leadership, and use this information to improve clinical care of trauma patients.
• Collaborate with the institutional PI program and all trauma subspecialties.
• Work with the Trauma Program Manager to review, monitor, and identify PI opportunities at the system and provider levels, escalating cases as appropriate for peer review.

• Facilitate overall Trauma Program quality and consistency.
• Evaluate quality assurance filters defined by the American College of Surgeons, state‑designated standards, and internal filters for process and care improvement opportunities.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual QA reports such as Over/Under Triage.
• Collaborate with the Trauma Medical Director and Trauma Program Manager to develop and maintain a set of quality indicators and to ensure all staff involved in trauma care are knowledgeable about standards of care.
• Coordinate review of variances with the Trauma Medical Director, Trauma Program Manager, and Trauma Committee.
• Integrate trauma quality improvement with the hospital’s quality program.

• Review trauma admission records for data collection and abstraction for inclusion into the trauma registry and assess appropriateness of admission service.
• Analyze all records for quality assurance trauma standards recommended by the Trauma Committee, American College of Surgeons, and Joint Commission, covering all phases of trauma care.
• Maintain the highest level of trauma registry validity to assure accurate program profiling and TQIP, state, and internal data reports.
• Complete routine checks of abstracted data for accuracy.
• Identify suspicious or invalid cases, variables, and data values, and implement corrective action for invalid data.

• Attend all Trauma Department meetings as requested.
• Participate on at least one of the Georgia Committee for Trauma Excellence Subcommittees to support regional and state trauma system development.

Comply with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Graduate of an accredited/approved school of nursing.

Preferred.

• Registered Nurse (Single State) or RN – Multi‑state Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS) – Instructor
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) – Instructor or ACLS – Provisional
• Trauma Nurse Core Course

Minimum 3 years of clinical nursing in emergency, critical care, and/or trauma care.

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