SUMMARY

The Trauma & Stroke Nurse Quality Coordinator is responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and improving the performance of the trauma and stroke programs, to help reduce unnecessary variation in care and prevent adverse events. The Trauma & Stroke Nurse Quality Coordinator aims to increase the value of care by improving the quality of processes, improving the quality of outcomes, and decreasing costs. The Trauma & Stroke Nurse Quality Coordinator works in collaboration with the Director of Quality and the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) on the operational and logistical aspects of the trauma and stroke performance improvement programs utilizing both process review and peer review.

STATUS: Full Time

LOCATION: St. Lawrence Health

DEPARTMENT: Quality

SCHEDULE: 8hr, Days

ATTRIBUTES

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or working on degree

• RN licensure in the State of New York

• BLS and ACLS

• Minimum of two years nursing experience in emergency department, operating room or ICU.

• Mandatory education as required by hospital and accrediting bodies

• Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) completed within 1 year of hire.

• Trauma Outcomes and Performance Improvement Course (TOPIC) must obtain at first available offering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists in maintaining a comprehensive written plan outlining the performance improvement programs of the trauma and stroke programs.

• Manage the data collection system and ensure the data is reliable and consistently obtains the information necessary to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Maintain a process of event identification and levels of review that result in the development of corrective action plans, methods of monitoring, reevaluation, and benchmarking.

• Coordinate problem resolution, outcome improvements, and assurance of safety (“loop closure”) utilizing methods of monitoring, reevaluation, benchmarking, and documentation.

• Facilitate peer review to ensure trauma and stroke cases are reviewed in a timely manner.

• Collaborate with hospital quality department on the integration of quality and safety activities.

• Collaborate with local, state and regional trauma/stroke systems on trauma/stroke system performance improvement efforts. This includes, but is not limited to, pre-hospital agencies, flight personnel, transferring facilities and rehabilitation facilities.

• Collaborate with the Trauma Medical Director (TMD), TPM, and the trauma liaisons on trauma performance improvement projects and education.

• Collaborate with the Stroke Medical Director on stroke performance improvement projects and education.

• Monitor, and where applicable participate in, national quality and patient safety initiatives related to trauma and stroke care.

• Assist in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines, protocols and algorithms derived from evidence-based validated resources and track compliance with their utilization and monitor patient outcomes.

• Participate in multidisciplinary rounds to assess the needs, variances and complications of trauma and stroke patients.

• Assist with the creation and maintenance of a trauma/stroke dashboard of all performance improvement cases.

• Assist the TPM with TQIP reporting and benchmarking tools and use these benchmark reports to implement quality and performance improvement initiatives on trauma patients.

• Assists with trauma registry as needed to include, data validation, entry and reporting.