Trauma Nurse Coordinator

Full-Time Trauma Nurse Coordinator | UPMC Hamot

Monday-Friday | Day Shift

Join a dedicated and collaborative team committed to advancing trauma care across our region. The Trauma Services Department works closely with trauma surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, nursing staff, hospital leadership, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the highest quality care for injured patients. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact patient outcomes beyond the bedside while contributing to trauma care improvements at the hospital, system, state, and national levels.

The Trauma Nurse Coordinator serves as a clinical leader, educator, patient advocate, and quality improvement specialist responsible for coordinating and supporting all aspects of the trauma program. Working in partnership with the Trauma Medical Director, Trauma Program Administrator, and multidisciplinary teams, the Trauma Nurse Coordinator helps ensure the delivery of timely, evidence-based, and patient-centered trauma care across the continuum of treatment.

This position plays a critical role in trauma program operations, performance improvement initiatives, regulatory compliance, injury prevention efforts, and trauma education. The coordinator collaborates with physicians, nurses, ancillary departments, and community partners to promote optimal patient outcomes and maintain adherence to trauma center standards established by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF) and other accrediting organizations.

As an integral member of the Trauma Services team, the Trauma Nurse Coordinator provides leadership through clinical expertise, educational initiatives, quality improvement activities, and community outreach programs designed to improve trauma care and reduce preventable injuries. This role offers the opportunity to influence the future of trauma services while supporting excellence in patient care, professional development, and community engagement.

Title and salary will be determined based upon education and nursing experience.

Responsibilities:

Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues.
Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships.
Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life.
Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle.
Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
Participates in the development of nursing policies related to the care of the trauma patient.
Develops, recommends, and administers policies to provide direction and oversight necessary to insure an efficient and effective patient care and/or services.
Establishes and maintains effective work relationship with members of the health care team in order to coordinate and facilitate the delivery of optimal trauma patient care.
Serves as a member of related in-hospital, regional, state, and national trauma related committees upon request.
Orients new staff as requested.
Coordinates activities with the Trauma Program Medical Director and Trauma Program Administrator to facilitate overall quality and consistency
Develop and maintain a set of quality indicators for the trauma program to insure that staff in all departments dealing I the care of the trauma patient is knowledgeable about the hospital trauma program and standards of care.
Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, nonphysician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.
Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.
Facilitates multidisciplinary performance improvement activities in relation to trauma patient care and outcomes.
Develops conceptual framework in collaboration with managers and other staff members to encourage staff development.
Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care.
Aggregates information and data related to trauma care delivery system to insure accurate tracking and trending of trauma data.
Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healthy relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
Maintains all performance improvement documentation including but not limited to patient performance files, mortality and morbidity, and practice guidelines.
Manages the data flow process for concurrent quality issues and directs each to appropriate personnel.
Assists with organizational preparation of the PTSF survey and application process.
Monitors compliance with the PTSF standards related to quality of care.
Management of the Pennsylvania Outcomes and Performance Improvement Measurement System (POPIMS).
Participates in scholarly activities including writing for publication, abstracts, or poster presentations at conferences.
Collaborates with the Trauma Medical Director and Trauma Program Administrator to develop and maintain a set of quality indicators for the trauma program.
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ntegrates trauma quality improvement with the hospital quality program.

Reviews PTSF quarterly reports and indicates trends for review.
Maintains credentialing data on all trauma practitioners.
Performs concurrent medical record monitoring and data collection.
Ensures that all components of the trauma program meet the quality assurance standards as established by the hospital.
Graduate of an approved school of nursing for registered nurses
BSN Required
MSN Preferred
Minimum 3 years clinical nursing experience
Minimum 1 year trauma clinical nursing experience

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

Current Pennsylvania licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse license or eligible for State Board Licensure.
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Registered Nurse (RN)
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Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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