Trauma Nurse Coordinator

Texas Children's; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital is seeking a Trauma Nurse Coordinator to manage daily trauma services operations and ensure family-centered, developmentally appropriate care across departments. The role requires RN licensure in Texas, BLS, and TNCC, with leadership in trauma program delivery.

The coordinator will drive performance improvement, coordinate with leadership to meet regulatory standards, and mentor the trauma team to sustain excellence in care and safety.

Qualifications

• RN licensure in Texas or compact
• BLS certification
• TNCC certification

Responsibilities

• Coordinate campus Trauma Services daily operations to ensure efficiency and patient/family satisfaction.
• Monitor compliance with DSHS, TETAF, ACS, TQIP, and SETRAC requirements for trauma designation.
• Oversee patient care from admission through ICU, stabilization and discharge, including performance improvement.
• Track performance improvement initiatives and report outcomes.
• Identify gaps between requirements and outputs and propose improvement options.
• Coach trauma multidisciplinary team to maintain trauma competencies and cost-effective care.
• Communicate effectively with trauma team and ancillary departments to remove barriers.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Team coordination

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

BSN bridge program enrollment

Job description

At Texas Children's Hospital, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values-Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust-we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day.

We're searching for a Trauma Nurse Coordinator, someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position you will coordinate clinical and performance improvement activities for Trauma services. The Trauma Nurse Coordinator (TNC) participates and serves as liaison in the coordination and the delivery of high quality, family -centered and developmentally appropriate trauma patient care across services areas. Has 24-hour accountability and ensures efficiency, compliance, and accuracy while maintaining optimum levels of patient and family satisfaction.

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• Coordinates campus specific Trauma Services daily operations to ensure efficiency, compliance and accuracy while maintaining optimum levels of patient and family satisfaction.
• Maintains compliance with regulatory agencies including the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Texas EMS Trauma Acute Care Foundation (TETAF), American College of Surgeons (ACS), ACS Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP), and/or Southeast Trauma Regional Advisory Council (SETRAC) to ensure appropriate trauma center level trauma designation requirements are achieved.
• Monitors trauma patient care from admission through operative interventions, ICU care, stabilization, rehabilitation, and discharge, including all trauma performance improvement.
• Continually strives to meet trauma program goals, monitors and reviews performance improvement initiatives, and tracks/reports performance and process improvement outcomes.
• Reviews processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs; identifies opportunities for improvement via benchmarking or other external comparisons.
• Generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions.
• Utilizes a team approach with organizational leaders and unit educators to coach and develop trauma multidisciplinary team members to ensure the delivery of high-quality trauma patient care and maintenance of trauma competencies.
• Demonstrates accountability for cost effective management of care and services while ensuring the department achieves patient care goals.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills with trauma team and ancillary departments to eliminate communication barriers.

Bachelor's degree in nursing or associate degree in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or an associate degree in a related field accepted by the Texas Board of Nursing for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining an RN license or a technical diploma in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or Must be currently enrolled in a nursing bridge program working toward a BSN. Verified BSN-equivalency or a signed agreement is required.

Licenses/Certifications

• Required RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact
• Required BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
• Required TNCC - Cert-Trauma Nursing Core Course by the Emergency Nurses Association

Preferred

• ATCN - Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses
• TCRN - Trauma Certified Registered Nurses

Required 5 years Clinical experience

Preferred 3 years Trauma experience and Trauma Program Leadership experience with knowledge of Trauma Program requirements from the Texas department of state health services, Texas EMS Trauma & Acute Care Foundation (TETAF), and American College of Surgeons (ACS) trauma designation requirements.

Completion of Trauma Outcomes Performance Improvement Course (TOPIC), Trauma Coordinators Core Course (TCCC), or Texas Trauma Designation Education Course (TTDEC) strongly encouraged within one year of hire.

Completion of Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) AIS course, American Trauma Society (ATS) Trauma Program Manager course, ATS Trauma Registry course and/or Texas EMS Trauma Acute Care Foundation (TETAF) Hospital Data Management Course strongly encouraged.

Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) preferred; ACLS encouraged.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Incident Command System (ICS) Courses IC-100 and IC-200 preferred.

Active participation within Trauma Regional Advisory Council (RAC) and Texas Trauma Coordinators Form (TTFC) strongly encouraged.