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CC018172 Trauma CenterThe Trauma Coordinator ensures safe, effective, holistic patient care with complex needs within a specialized area of clinical practice. This nurse serves across the AC care continuum and acts as a clinical resource for patients, families, staff, and community providers. The Trauma Coordinator initiates changes to achieve high standards in patient care, nursing practice, and the work environment.
The Trauma Coordinator ensures safe, effective, holistic patient care with complex needs within a specialized area of clinical practice. This nurse serves across the AC care continuum and acts as a clinical resource for patients, families, staff, and community providers. The Trauma Coordinator initiates changes to achieve high standards in patient care, nursing practice, and the work environment.
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree Nursing, Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent or Nursing Diploma
Master's Degree, Master's Degree Nursing
Nursing - 4 years of experience
1 of the following certifications is required - , Registered Nurse (RN) license - Arkansas or Compact State
Certified Case Manager (CCM) - The Commission on Case Manager Certification, Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) - Board Certification for Emergency Nursing, Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN) - Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing Certification Board, Certified Pediatric Nurse (RN-BC) - Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Neonatal (CCNS-N) - American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNC-NIC) - National Certification Corporation, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP-BC) - The National Certification Corporation, Nurse Executive (NE-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Nursing Professional Development (NPD-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN) - Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN)
1. Remains current in research related to the trauma patient populations and trauma systems. Interpreters and applies current research. Participates in ongoing research relevant to the trauma patients.
2. Provides clinical expertise and collaborates with physicians, nurses, pre-hospital providers, specialty services, ancillary services, administration, and agencies within the trauma service area to facilitate optimal care of the trauma patient.
3. Predicts, monitors and evaluates patient outcomes for continuity in intervention over time and through systems.
4. Facilitates effective implementation of the Trauma Performance Improvement Patient Safety (TPIPS) and Trauma Peer Review process.
5. Provides feedback to and requests data for health care providers from EMS and referring hospitals regarding patient care and trauma system issues.
6. Checks daily census to identify potential trauma patients, notify appropriate departments such as injury prevention.
7. Organizes and enters injury data into the trauma registry database (NTRACS) regarding the patients injury event, its severity, the patient’s care and outcome.
8. Abstracts appropriate data elements for all trauma patients, reviewing both concurrently and retrospectively to ensure all necessary elements are captured as required by the Arkansas Department of Health and the National Trauma Data Set. Establishes the injury severity score using AIS methodology.
9. Performs on-going quality assurance and data validation assessments. Generates reports to provide data and statistical information to burn, trauma and injury prevention.
10. Performs other duties as assigned.
Arkansas Children's is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state’s only magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric specialties (2022—2023): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, is a level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
