Multi-Site Pediatric Coordinator RN

Overview

Multi-Site Pediatric Coordinator 

Location: Knapp Medical Center - Weslaco, TX

Full-Time | Days | 8 - Hour Shifts 

 

 

 Here are some of the benefits of working at Prime Healthcare: 

• Health, dental, and vision insurance options 

• Paid vacation, sick time and holidays 

• Bereavement leave, FMLA and other leave options 

• Employer 401K options 

• Tuition reimbursement options  

• Life, disability, and other insurance options 

• Many other amazing benefits 

 

Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion, and community! Knapp Medical Center, a member of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference.

 

Knapp Medical Center is an award-winning, not-for-profit hospital in Weslaco, Texas. With 227 beds, the community hospital specializes in emergency care, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, wound care, surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, critical care, and interventional radiology. Knapp serves as the only acute care hospital in the Mid-Valley area, as well as Weslaco's only Level III Trauma Center, Advanced Primary Stroke Center, and Level II Newborn Nursery. Knapp has been providing quality and compassionate healthcare to Mid-Valley residents for 60 years.  More than 300 physicians serve on the hospital's medical staff. Knapp also serves as one of the largest employers in the Mid-Valley, employing more than 450 people.  For more information, please call 956-968-8567 or visit www.KnappMed.org

 

Responsibilities

The Market Pediatric Coordinator-RN (PECC) serves as the Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator (PECC) for multi-sites. The Coordinator is responsible for ensuring each facility meets and maintains the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Pediatric Readiness Criteria required of all levels of adult trauma facilities under Texas Administrative Code §157.126(h)(12). Working collaboratively with the Market Trauma Program Manager/Director, facility Trauma Program Managers, ED Directors, ED Medical Directors, and Chief Nursing Officers, the Coordinator audits pediatric charts across all facilities, leads pediatric trauma resuscitation simulations at each site no less than quarterly, develops and facilitates pediatric education and competency validation for ED staff, and maintains pediatric performance improvement (PI) documentation through loop closure within each facility's Trauma Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) plan. The Coordinator reports pediatric readiness data, PI findings, and plan-of-correction progress at each facility's Trauma Committee and serves as a resource to ED and hospital leadership on pediatric equipment, medications, supplies, policies, and staffing. Performs direct patient care only as needed and within the scope of practice.

Qualifications

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING

 

1.   Current and valid state Registered Nurse license.2.   Bachelor Degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.3.   Minimum of two (2) years of clinical nursing experience in an acute care Emergency Department required. Active/recent ED experience required.4.   Experience in pediatric emergency care, pediatric trauma, or a pediatric acute care setting preferred.5.   Experience in trauma program, quality/performance improvement, chart abstraction, or clinical education preferred.6.   Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required at time of hire and maintained.

7.   Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certificate required at time of hire and maintained.

8.   Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and/or ENPC certification

9.   Current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification required at time of hire and maintained.

10. Current Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification required at time of hire and maintained.

11. Minmum of 2 years of clinical nursing experience, with 1 year in a supervisory or leadership role preferred.                                                                 FACILITY / UNIT TRAINING

1.  Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN) or Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) preferred; CPEN or CEN within two (2) years of hire preferred. In Paramedic Base Station ED, MICN, within 12 months of hire.

2.  PALS and/or ENPC instructor status preferred.

3.  Non-OB facilities: Advanced or AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring certificate -preferred.

4.  Professional Certification within 2 years of hire, preferred.5.  Completion of the National Pediatric Readiness Project (NPRP) assessment orientation and familiarity with the pedsready.org assessment tool within 90 days of hire.6.  Completion of facility trauma program and Trauma PIPS plan orientation at each assigned facility within 90 days of hire.7.  Minimum of 4 hours of CEU in pediatric emergency or pediatric trauma education per year. 

Employment Status

Full Time

Shift

Days

Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf