Director Trauma - ECC Trauma

Director Trauma - ECC Trauma at Christus Health summary:

The Director Trauma is a registered nurse responsible for overseeing a hospital's trauma program, including performance improvement, patient safety, data management, injury prevention, and education. This leadership role collaborates with medical directors and administration to ensure compliance with trauma standards, manage multidisciplinary care services, and participate in regional advisory activities. The position requires trauma nursing experience, healthcare leadership, and certification in trauma-related courses to drive quality improvement and outreach initiatives.

Summary:

The Director Trauma is a registered nurse who in partnership with the Trauma Medical Director and hospital administration is responsible for oversight and authority of the trauma program as defined by the level of designation, including the trauma performance improvement and patient safety processes, trauma registry, data management, injury prevention, outreach education, outcome reviews, and research as appropriate to the level of designation.

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS
  
  Competencies:
  
  Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Drive for Results - Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Business Acumen - Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting his/her business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace. Ability to impart knowledge to a variety of operating constituencies.
• Managing Vision and Purpose - Communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; talks beyond today; talks about possibilities; is optimistic; creates mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision; makes the vision shareable by everyone; can inspire and motivate entire units or organizations.
• Strategic Agility - Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports - Is excellent at establishing clear directions; sets stretching objectives; distributes the workload appropriately; lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results; brings out the best in people; is a clear communicator.

The Director of Trauma is to assume at minimum, the following leadership responsibilities in conjunction with the Trauma Medical Director and hospital administration:

• Assist with the budgetary process for the trauma program
• Develop and implement clinical protocols and practice management guidelines
• Provide educational opportunities for staff development
• Monitor performance improvement activities in conjunction with a PI Coordinator (where applicable)
• Serves as the liaison to administration and represent the trauma program on hospital and regional committees to enhance trauma care
• Adheres to current standards as defined by the designated/verifying organization for the specific level trauma center
• Responsible for the organization of services and systems necessary for a multidisciplinary approach to providing care to injured patients
• Manages care by maintaining effective lines of communication with all concerned parties
• Demonstrate ability to problem solve and be supportive/innovative in the process of change
• Demonstrate strong human relations skills with an ability to handle difficult/sensitive issues with regard to patient confidentiality
• Demonstrate excellent written/oral communication skills
• Integrate and interpret data from diverse sources addressing issues of moderate to high complexity
• Develop strong relationships with customers (i.e. patients, physicians, and support departments)
• Adheres to current standards as defined by the designated/verifying organization for the specific level trauma center
• Promote optimal trauma care through clinical activities such as rounding
• Facilitate professional and public education to EMS, physician, nursing staff, and ancillary staff
• Facilitate Outreach programs
• Quality Improvement activities such as risk adjusting benchmarking using registry data to guide quality improvement activities
• Facilitates and prioritizes injury prevention work based on trends identified in the trauma registry
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