Trauma Nurse Coordinator

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital is seeking a Trauma Nurse Coordinator to lead coordination of trauma services in a fast-paced environment. You will partner with clinical teams to ensure high-quality, family-centered trauma care across departments, with 24-hour accountability and focus on efficiency and patient satisfaction.

The role requires a BSN or higher, Texas RN licensure, BLS, TNCC, and several years of clinical trauma experience, with leadership in trauma program activities preferred.

Qualifications

• Must have a nursing degree and current RN license in Texas.
• BLS and TNCC certifications required; ATCN/TCRN preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical experience.
• Experience leading trauma program or leadership roles preferred.
• Knowledge of trauma designation requirements from TDSHS, TETAF, and ACS.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates campus Trauma Services daily operations to ensure efficiency and patient satisfaction.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies and trauma designation requirements.
• Monitors patient care from admission through discharge and trauma performance improvement.
• Leads performance improvement initiatives and tracks outcomes.
• Coaches trauma multidisciplinary team to maintain high-quality care.
• Manages cost-effective delivery of trauma services.
• Communicates effectively with trauma teams and ancillary departments.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Clinical assessment

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Education

RN license

BSN in progress / BSN preferred

Job description

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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
  • Preferred 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) CoursesICS-100 andICS-200 preferred
• Active participation within Trauma Regional Advisory Council (RAC) and Texas Trauma Coordinators Form (TTFC) strongly encouraged.

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.