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The Trauma coordinator is responsible for general programmatic operations and oversight of the adult trauma program under the direction of the Clinical Program Manager. Some responsibilities include concurrent and retrospective extraction from patient's charts and its entry into the Trauma Registry, trending data points, and completing quality performance management tasks. This position is essential to the trauma program to have accurate and up to date data to support research, injury prevention efforts, and quality improvement activities. The Trauma Coordinator ensures that data extraction and entry into the registry is accurate, and correctly reflects patient's injuries, illness and course of hospitalization. The Trauma Coordinator has accountability for monitoring the data collection process and collaborates with managers, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to ensure an efficient and accurate data collection process. The Trauma Coordinator will assist the Trauma Clinical Manager to maintain the integrity of the Registries, generate queries and reports, and ensure compliance with all HIPAA regulations. The Adult Trauma Coordinator will interface with the delivery networks of Yale New Haven Health System.

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• RESPONSIBILITIES:
• • 1. Program Performance: Participates in departmental strategies to ensure the successful provision of programs, reporting, and projects in support of the wellbeing of the trauma department and trauma program.
• • -Demonstrates effective oversight of performance improvement processes , collaborating with the inter-professional team to provide high quality trauma care.
    -At regular intervals, conducts primary and secondary reviews of process measures, filters, and complications according to institutional guidelines established in compliance with regulatory oversight and governing bodies.
    -In collaboration with the trauma program leadership, prepares and/or presents tertiary reviews at trauma morbidity & mortality meetings; including appropriate related peer review documents.
    -In collaboration with trauma program leadership, prepares and/or presents monthly reports and appropriate tertiary reviews for the multidisciplinary QI and Trauma Operations meetings .
    -In collaboration with trauma program leadership, prepares and/or presents the necessary program support document and reports for trauma program verification.
    -In collaboration with trauma program leadership, demonstrates effective oversight of the trauma performance management program.
    -Assists with the development of program-specific administrative and clinical guidelines.
    -Assists with the development of tracking and reporting mechanisms to support performance improvement programs and initiatives.
    -Assists with the design and implementation of audits and reports to support registry datavalidation.
    -Coordinates and/or participates in performance improvement initiatives to enhance programmatic processes to meet organizational and regulatory requirements.
  • -Organizes, facilitates and/or participates in trauma related educational opportunities
  • -Target education programs for physician providers
    -Target education programs for nursing providers
    -Support education for advanced practice providers
    -Ad hoc education in formal and informal venues, as indicate by programmatic findings
    -Organizes, facilitates and/or participates in special projects to support the trauma program
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    2. Quality & Safety: Role models and supports excellence in professional practice to promote safe, high quality work product in the department to achieve superior outcomes.
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    -Collaborates with the Clinical Manager and other healthcare professionals to determine the full extent of injuries and complications to address concerns regarding inaccurate data or data sources
    -Facilitates the streamlined flow of data into the trauma database
    -In collaboration with the Clinical Manager, monitors staff understanding of department metrics andnational benchmarking. Provides feedback and education to support staff knowledge .
    -Makes recommendations and develops processes and guidelines in collaboration with the Clinical Manager to improved data collection for the registry and support performance improvement.
    
    3. Service Excellence: Role model YNHHS Standards of Professional Behavior, creating a great `first impression' by demonstrating exemplary customer service skills for all customer service groups, including physicians, staff, and department support personnel.
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    -Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to the adult trauma program to support a unified team in the care of the trauma patient
    -Communicates program processes, advances and outcomes to the multidisciplinary team
    -Represents the adult trauma program on a local, regional and national level
  • 4. Professional Effectiveness: Accountable to ensure professional practice and clinical competence with the trauma department programs.
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    -Maintains flexible work schedule to meet the needs of the Trauma Department and its programs
    -Provides ongoing program-related communications to the Clinical Manager and other stakeholders as needed
    -Represents the adult trauma program on a local, regional and national level
    -Responsible for maintaining and improving knowledge base relevant to projects and programs throughinservices, meetings, seminars and current literature

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree in nursing required.

EXPERIENCE

Three to five years' experience working with complex system issues such as triage or program development required. Five to seven years' experience in Critical Care and/or Emergency Nursing preferred.

LICENSURE

Registered nurse with current license in the State of Connecticut

SPECIAL SKILLS

Excellent communication, negotiation and organizational skills. Excellent clinical judgment. Excellent knowledge of personal computers and related software. Adaptability to a wide variety of professional interactions. Comprehensive understanding in the use of medical records for data abstraction. Will be trained in the use of current ICD and injury systems coding.

PHYSICAL DEMAND

May require prolonged sitting. May require prolonged use of computer monitors. May require walking and transport between hospital, health system and university campus locations.