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: - - - - -
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Keywords: Beaumont Health, Royal Oak , RN Quality Improvement- Trauma Services, Healthcare , Royal Oak, Michigan
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