RN Quality Improvement- Trauma Services

Company: Beaumont Health
Location: Royal Oak
Posted on: August 5, 2022

Job Description:

Shift- 8:00a - 4:30p M-FGENERAL SUMMARY:Under minimal direction, performs data abstraction and entry, review, and analysis on trauma patient's specific to Quality Improvement. - Provides consultative support to the operating units, medical staff, and service lines leaders, as appropriate, utilizing clinical data and clinical best practices to improve clinical outcomes. - Supports quality improvement process implementation, working collaboratively with stakeholders to improve patient care outcomes. Provides support to the Trauma Program Manager and Trauma Medical Director, including but not limited to data entry, database maintenance and support, graphing, control charts, pivot tables, and meeting preparation and follow-up. BENEFITSBeaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.

• NEW On-demand pay program - powered by Payactiv
• Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
• Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
• Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plans
• Relocation assistance
• Generous retirement savings, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance
• Free onsite parking at all campusesESSENTIAL DUTIES: - - - - - -
• Collects, analyzes, evaluates, and displays data from clinical information and the trauma registry database based on the guidelines from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) to support the objectives of the performance improvement process.
• Identifies all trauma activations, admissions, transfers, and deaths, using clinical identifiers and strict inclusion/exclusion criteria as defined by the American College of Surgeons. - Able to identify all injuries, procedures, complications, and outcomes.
• Provides clinical and performance improvement subject matter expertise to departments, medical staff, and clinical operations. -
• Conducts ongoing research of best practices for quality and performance improvement for specified patient populations.
• Makes recommendations to the medical staff on appropriate next steps and suggested clinical indicators for departmental improvement plans based on internal and external data as well as current literature.
• Actively participates and facilitates best practices to drive improved outcomes based on population performance both internally and externally.
• Retrieves and compiles data through data download from trauma data sources including other hospital databases and patient logs.
• Develops and promotes staff education re: quality and safety initiatives.
• Review's trauma patients' clinical records across the continuum of care, including EMS reports, police reports, (if available), the Emergency Department, Surgery, and inpatient records, and applies appropriate Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS-90) scores and validates ICD-10 diagnostic codes, operative codes, and E-codes.
• Management of all components of the Trauma Registry and trauma informatics, including clinical case review, data retrieval and collection, data download and entry from other database sources, data cleaning, statistics, validation, analysis, and presentation of data both internally and externally.
• Teaches injury prevention programs as needed to be responsive to the needs of the community and trauma.
• Actively participates in the Trauma Program meetings of the Michigan Trauma Registrars, MTQIP, or other trauma quality improvement committees.This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.STANDARD REQUIREMENTS:
• Supports the Mission, Value and Vision of Beaumont Health (BH). - Demonstrates personal commitment through active involvement in the performance improvement process.
• Exhibits excellent customer service skills and behaviors toward internal and external customers and co-workers. - Promotes positive public relations with patients/residents, family members, guests, and others.
• Supports and adheres to all Beaumont Health's customer service, service excellence, and performance standards. Supports and participates with all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organizations including in-service training, acceptable attendance, uniform, and dress code.
• Adheres to HIPAA requirements and maintains confidentiality of all data, including patient/resident, employee, and operations information.
• Supports and participates in a collaborative team-oriented environment - cooperates and works together with all co-workers, plans, and completes job duties, uses appropriate communications in sensitive and emotional situations and follows up as appropriate regarding reported complaints, problems, and concerns.
• Supports, cooperates with, and demonstrates safe work practices and attitudes, follows safety rules - including universal precautions - reports and prevents/corrects unsafe conditions and behaviors, and participates in organizational and departmental safety programs.
• Completes all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organization.
• Maintains current licensure, registration and/or certification, as applicable, at all times.STANDARD QUALIFICATIONSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. - The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. - Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
• Education / Training: - - - - - - Bachelor degree required. Master's degree in nursing, business or healthcare field preferred.
• Work Experience:Requires a minimum of three years of recent nursing experience in the emergency department, critical care, or surgical services with increasing responsibility and interest in trauma care. Teaching or training program experience desired. - Quality/Performance improvement experience preferred. - Data collection experience preferred comfortable with Microsoft Office. - -
• Certification, Licensure, Registration: Requires a current and unrestricted Registered Nurse License in the State of Michigan. - Requires completion of American Trauma Society's Trauma Registrar Course, AIS course and the ICD-10 coding course or within 6 months of hire. - Requires TNCC/ENPC provider.
• Other Qualifications: - Requires flexible hours when needed and the ability to travel for meetings, conferences and/or classes. - Requires the ability to maintain knowledge of current trauma trends and developments. - Requires a high degree of demonstrated analytical skills to organize, record, and abstract data from computer systems and patient charts to maintain trauma registry and produce various reports. - Requires computer and internet experience including demonstrated familiarity with Windows and MS Office software programs. - Requires the ability to research, compile, create and analyze a variety of statistical data reports. - Requires a high level of interpersonal and communication skills to interact effectively with children, adults, and colleagues to the trauma program. - Requires the ability to effectively present highly technical information to a diverse audience.WORKING CONDITIONS:A. Physical Effort: --- StrengthPosition requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 30 lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability to lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift up to 40 lbs. --- Manual DexterityPosition requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as positioning patients. --- CoordinationPosition requires incumbent to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking. Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and pulses. --- MobilityPositions requires incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods, frequently bend such as when caring for a patient in bed. --- Visual DiscriminationPositions requires incumbent to constantly see objects far away as in driving and see close objects such as reading thermometers. --- HearingPositions requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering phone/intercom. Frequently be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.B. Work Environment: --- Employee may be frequently exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs. Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxions, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances. Infrequently exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids. Seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature, grease, oil, and radiation. --- May be expected to travel between sites for this position.* Beaumont Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.

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