Registered Nurse - Trauma Acute Care Surgery en Posterity Group LLC

Description

 Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are tasked with staffing The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) with Registered Nursed - Trauma Acute Care Surgery. The Trauma Acute Care Surgery RNs are expected to perform the following:   

•  Assists the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) and Trauma Medical Director (TMD) in developing  and maintaining a comprehensive Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (TACS) Program.  
• Ensures timely and accurate concurrent and retrospective reviews of trauma patients’ (civilian and  military) medical records for inclusion criteria, data element abstraction, and identification of  complications and/or performance improvement filters for further review by the Trauma Acute Care  Surgery team, peer review, and performance improvement processes.  
• Adheres to required definitions and/or guidelines for data entry into data base computer  applications with 95% compliance on quarterly audits to ensure inter-rater reliability  
• Serves as liaison to the multidisciplinary team and works collaboratively in support of the TACS  Program  
• Provides data analysis and trends related to continuum of care of trauma and acute care surgery  patients through continuous review of medical records, focused audits, and case reviews.  
•  Assists in facilitating meetings such as Joint Trauma System weekly case reviews, generating  meeting minutes, pulling reports, or follow up on designated action items.  
• Assist the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) with Program Component Coordination such as,  ensuring multimedia sources are available across the continuum of care such as the Video  Teleconferences (Weekly, Global and VA) and the multidisciplinary meetings.  
• Participates in Multidisciplinary Trauma Rounds as designated by TPM and TMD.  
• Provides weekly Trauma Round notes in patient’s electronic health record from multidisciplinary  discharge planning meetings as prescribed by departmental/ hospital policy.  
• Attends departmental and/or hospital committee meetings as designated by TPM or TMD.  
• Provides education and training for departmental or hospital personnel as directed by TPM or  TMD.  
• Serves as an alternate for the Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator as directed by TPM  for such activities such as pulling standardized/ad hoc reports, creating power point presentations,  and documenting meeting minutes.  
• Reports variances in patient care to TMD and coordinates follow up activities as needed to correct  variances.  
• Assists the TPM with Department of Defense Trauma Registry (DoDTR), trauma education  research and injury prevention.
• Assists the TPM research development, implementation, and evaluate trauma care.  
• Rounds with the TACS team on patients assigned to the TACS service and assists with coordination  of inpatient services.
• Provides insight to the TPM as it relates to the process of care through continuous audits, periodic  focus audits, case reviews, and trend analysis in all phases of trauma care.  
• Provides outstanding customer service to all multidisciplinary team members, and patients.  

Requirements

•  Degree/Education: Bachelor’s degree of Registered Nursing from a college or university  accredited by Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the Commission on  Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).   
• Certifications in addition to Basic Life Support: N/A.  
• Experience: (a) Minimum of 5 years of concurrent nursing experience with 3 years in either critical  care or trauma nursing, emergency nursing, or inpatient perioperative nursing. (b) Trauma PI  Coordinator must have the above nursing experience plus one year minimum of Performance  Improvement or Patient Safety experience or proof of comparable education/training. (c) Must be  able to demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel) for Trauma Nurse  Coordinator position and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point) for Trauma PI  Coordinator position. (d) Experience in nursing documentation in an electronic health record  system. (e) Must possess ability to communicate respectfully and work collaboratively with team  members and outside departmental personnel.  
•  Board Certification: Trauma Certified Registered Nurse  
• Licensure/Registration: Must have current state licensure as a Registered Nurse in the United  States.