Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator RN (Full Time/Days)

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution is seeking a full-time Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator RN at Lancaster General Hospital. Responsibilities include facilitating trauma quality initiatives, conducting patient care analysis, and collaborating with healthcare teams. Candidates must hold an RN license in PA, a BSN, and five years of clinical experience. Join a role committed to improving trauma care and patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• RN licensure issued by the PA Board of Nursing.
• Five years of clinical experience in the area of specialty.
• In-depth knowledge in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

• Provide analysis of patient care at various levels.
• Facilitate collaborative care management teams.
• Design systems supporting managed care.
• Identify nursing research problems.

Skills

Clinical analysis

Care management

Nursing research

Collaboration with healthcare teams

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Job description

Overview

Penn Medicine is seeking a Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator RN (Full Time/Days) at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA. The role facilitates trauma quality initiatives, identifies and develops processes to improve outcomes across the continuum of care, and serves as a trauma educator and mentor. The Trauma PI Coordinator assists in the development, implementation, and evaluation of patient care management guidelines and prevention of injury programs in coordination with the trauma administrative team. The role focuses on the entire process of care throughout the trauma continuum, including monitoring the patient’s clinical, functional, and psychosocial status. The nurse-coordinated model is cost-effective, accountable, and provides quality outcomes. Patient care includes care to patients in the neonatal birth to 30 days, pediatric 30 days through 12 years, adolescent 13 through 18 years, adult 19 through 64 years, and geriatric 65 years and above.

Location and Hours

Location: Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA

Hours: Full Time (40 hours per week), Monday–Friday, four 10-hour shifts (6am–4pm)

Responsibilities

• Provides concurrent and retrospective review and analysis of the care of assigned patient caseload at the patient level, program level, and institutional level.


• Facilitates the formation of collaborative care management teams and leads the efforts in meeting the responsibilities of the team including variance analysis, aggregate trend analysis, and recommendations for changes in practice.


• Designs, implements, and evaluates systems and processes to support managed care and case management that address the special needs of a designated patient population.


• Identifies nursing research problems and utilizes nursing research strategies to promote clinical knowledge development and research-based clinical practice.


• Applies new information to clinical practice as evidenced by evaluation of established practice patterns.


• Serves as a role model and provides clinical consultation and education for the members of the multidisciplinary team related to nursing care, expected patient outcomes, and resource availability.


• Collaborates with nursing staff, physicians, and other members of the health care team to achieve patient outcomes within allotted time period utilizing unit, hospital, and outpatient resources in an effective and efficient manner.


• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Required Qualifications

• RN licensure, issued by the PA Board of Nursing.


• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or higher-level nursing degree, required.


• Five years of clinical experience in the area of specialty.


• In-depth knowledge in the area of specialty.

Preferred Qualifications

• One year of experience at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.