What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trauma Program Coordinator position at St. Vincent General Hospital District?
Trauma Nurse Coordinator- Full-time day position, 36-40 hours a week.
Full-time and part-time employees working at least 24 hours a week will have the following benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision, paid time off, paid sick leave, Holidays, 403(b) Retirement Plans, Life Insurance Plans, Shift differential, Workers' Compensation.
Deadline to apply is December 31, 2025
- Bachelor's degree in nursing or a related field.
- Three years of relevant emergency nursing or trauma program nursing and/or leadership experience preferred.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills
- Completion of the Trauma Outcome and Performance Improvement Course ("TOPIC Course") within one year of hire
- Management or supervising experience preferred
- Current Colorado RN license/current RN license from a particpating state in the National Licensure Compact
- Current BLS,PALS, ACLS, certification from American Heart Association required
- Current ENPC certification preferred
- Current TNCC certification required
- NRP Certification preferred
- familiarity with electronic medical records systems
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools
- Excellent critical thinking, analytical, teaching/coaching, and research skills
- Ability to determine course of action based on research, data, standard of care, and general guidelines/protocols
- Ability to use analytical skills to solve complex problems and issues
- Ability to independently research issues and make effective recommendations using critical thinking skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to details
The Trauma Program Coordinator at St Vincent Health (SVH) is a registered nurse with 3 years of expertise in trauma and/or emergency nursing who is responsible for the development, implementation, operation, and evaluation of the SVH Trauma Program. The Trauma Program Coordinator is responsible for organizing services and systems necessary for a multidisciplinary approach to caring for injured patients and works both independently and in collaboration with the Trauma Medical Director and the multidisciplinary health care team. This position assumes day-to-day responsibility for process and performance improvement activities related to nursing, registry, and injury prevention. Activities associated with this role have organizational, local, regional, and state impact. This position is responsible for the communication of resource needs across multiple departments. The Trauma Program Coordinator reports directly to the Chief Nursing Officer.
- Performance improvement
- Assess and improve departmental performance.
- Maintain the quality control program and participate in the organization's overall quality control program.
- Monitor the performance of hospital staff involved with the care of trauma patients.
- Monitor trauma patient outcome; evaluate trend.s
- Coordinate with physicians, nurses, other in-hospital staff, and outside providers to evaluate and address specific patient care issues.
- Participate in case review
- Assist the trauma program medical director and hospital administration in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a quality, multidisciplinary plan focused on improved patient outcomes.
- Serve as the coordinator for the identification, investigation, reporting, and follow-up of incidents and quality issues throughout the program while maintaining confidentiality
- Monitor the trauma team's availability andcompliancee with polices and standards.
- Develop and monitor the trauma Performance Improvement program in collaboration with the trauma program medical director.
- Assist in data collection related to trauma patients
- Analyzeregistryy data on the trauma patient population; identify trends for strategic planning and performance improvement
- Manage registry data: collect, analyze, and trend.
- Supervise the collection, coding, scoring, and development of processes for the validation of data entered into the registry.
- Ensures the maintenance of the trauma registry. Ensure the periodic reporting of trauma data to the state trauma program.
- Facilitate the measurement of selected outcomes for the trauma patient population.
- Coordinate injury prevention within the community.y
- Active participation in the Central Mountain Regional Emergency Medical and Trauma Advisory Council (RETAC) and Lake County Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) planning and exercise.
- Clinical Education:
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Plan, coordinate, and evaluate trauma-related educational programs for nursing staff.