Trauma Performance Improvement & Safety Coordinator

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network seeks a Performance Improvement Patient Safety Coordinator to support the Trauma Program Medical Director and Manager.

The role focuses on implementing the Trauma PI/Patient Safety program and ensuring data-driven quality of trauma care across the continuum at the Bethlehem Campus. The incumbent will review clinical care processes, aggregate and interpret data, identify improvement opportunities, and help educate staff.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Nursing required.
• RN licensure in PA required.
• ACLS/PALS/ATLS-ATCN preferred.
• Master’s degree desired.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the Trauma Performance Improvement (PI) Program for the hospital in collaboration with the Trauma Medical Director and Trauma Program Manager.
• Conducts patient rounds to review services and adherence to the PTSF standards.
• Utilizes clinical expertise to aggregate, assess and interpret information to evaluate the quality of clinical care.
• Review patient occurrences, user defined indicators, and audit filters with Trauma registrar and validate data on a concurrent basis.
• Responsible for issue identification, issue validation, issue analyses, and initiates follow-up to assure loop closure that will improve clinical outcomes and patient care.
• Identify areas for improvement and education; develop educational programs and action plans to address quality issues identified in the trauma program.
• Oversees the collection, tracking and benchmarking of trauma PI issues related to patient care and system development.
• Correlates POPIMS outcomes and PI findings with trauma registry data for adherence to PTOS criteria, accuracy, and inter-relater reliability and educates registry staff as needed.
• Provides concurrent feedback and issue resolution to the trauma service and liaisons.
• Maintenance of the Trauma PI database (POPIMS) to ensure adequate documentation as required by PTSF.
• Ability to produce clear effective reports and track issues over time.
• Update POPIMS database daily using concurrent and retrospective review of patient care.

Skills

Nursing

Critical care

Trauma care

Education

BA/BS in Nursing

RN licensure PA

ACLS/PALS/ATLS-ATCN preferred

Master’s degree desired

Tools

POPIMS

Job description

St. Luke's University Health Network seeks a Performance Improvement Patient Safety Coordinator to support the Trauma Program Medical Director and Manager.

The role focuses on implementing the Trauma PI/Patient Safety program and ensuring data-driven quality of trauma care across the continuum at the Bethlehem Campus. The incumbent will review clinical care processes, aggregate and interpret data, identify improvement opportunities, and help educate staff.