Job DescriptionJob Description
Manages clinical services, systems, and performance improvement activities as they relate to a multidisciplinary approach to providing care to injured patients. Collaborates with the leadership in developing and maintaining policies and procedures for the Trauma Critical Care Department.
Job Responsibility
- Collaborates with the Nurse Executive to establish nursing care standards and evaluates staff compliance; identifies research protocols effecting the patient population served and keeps nursing staff informed; facilitates effective provision of support services essential to patient care.
- Maintains a safe and caring environment for patients that is conducive to positive health teaching, and maintenance; patient and family expectations of care; develops mechanism to assess same; develops unit goals and objectives to support the institutional values and goals, with input from staff.
- Recognizes the need for patient care to be delivered in a culturally sensitive manner and role models sensitivity to staff; provides intramural and extramural education for professional staff as related to the care of trauma patients, including pre-hospital educational activates for staff.
- Other professional staff trauma related education as needed; monitors indicators of clinical process indicators, system issues, and outcomes related to the quality of care provided to trauma patients, including developing quality indicators, filters, and audits; identifying trends and sentinel events; participating in case reviews of trauma patients; assisting the leadership in outlining and implementing remedial actions.
- Manages the operational, personnel, and financial aspects of the trauma program as needed; serves as a liaison to hospital administration for the trauma program.
- Assists in organizing and documenting compliance with governmental, regulatory, or American College of Surgeon's requirements for the trauma center; oversees the collection, coding, storage, use, and validation of data on trauma patient while protecting patient confidentiality.
- Serves as internal resource for staff throughout the hospital and an external resource for pre-hospital providers for issues related to the care of trauma patients.
- Assists in facilitating research and protocol design, data collection, analysis, and publication efforts.
- Participates in the development of trauma care systems at the community, state, and national levels; assists in supervising the Prevention / Outreach Nurse Educator.
- Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing required.
- Current License to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State required, plus specialized certifications as needed.
- 6-8 years of relevant experience and 2-5 years of leadership / management experience, required.
*Additional Salary Detail The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
