IMMEDIATE OPENING for a Full-time Registered Nurse (Trauma Acute Care) to support the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, MD.

Education:

• Degree/Education: Bachelor’s degree of Registered Nursing.
• Certifications in addition to Basic Life Support: BLS Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of concurrent nursing experience with 3 years in either critical care or trauma nursing, emergency nursing, or inpatient perioperative nursing.
• Licensure/Registration: Must have current state licensure as a Registered Nurse in the United States.

SPECIFIC TASKS Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assists the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) and Trauma Medical Director (TMD) in developing and maintaining a comprehensive Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (TACS) Program.
• Ensures timely and accurate concurrent and retrospective reviews of trauma patients’ (civilian and military) medical records for inclusion criteria, data element abstraction, and identification of complications and/or performance improvement filters for further review by the Trauma Acute Care Surgery team, peer review, and performance improvement processes.
• Adheres to required definitions and/or guidelines for data entry into data base computer applications with 95% compliance on quarterly audits to ensure inter-rater reliability
• Serves as liaison to the multidisciplinary team and works collaboratively in support of the TACS Program
• Provides data analysis and trends related to continuum of care of trauma and acute care surgery patients through continuous review of medical records, focused audits, and case reviews.
• Assists in facilitating meetings such as Joint Trauma System weekly case reviews, generating meeting minutes, pulling reports, or follow up on designated action items.
• Assist the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) with Program Component Coordination such as, ensuring multimedia sources are available across the continuum of care such as the Video Teleconferences (Weekly, Global and VA) and the multidisciplinary meetings.
• Participates in Multidisciplinary Trauma Rounds as designated by TPM and TMD.
• Provides weekly Trauma Round notes in patient’s electronic health record from multidisciplinary discharge planning meetings as prescribed by departmental/ hospital policy.

Benefits include:

· Relocation (If necessary)

· Competitive wages

· Health benefits

· Health & Welfare Reimbursement

· 401(K)

Submit resume for immediate consideration.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $1.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Trauma Medicine

Work Location: In person