Registered Nurse – Trauma Acute Care Surgery

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), 8901 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20889

Essential HealthCare Solution is a woman-owned small business dedicated to providing optimal services to support our military and their families. Essential HealthCare Solution is seeking full-time Registered Nurses – Trauma Acute Care Surgery in support of the Trauma Acute Care Surgery under a designated Government official.

Responsibilities:

Knowledgeable of equipment and supply terminology and skill sufficient to identify and use necessary equipment and supplies properly and to communicate proper use with nurses, medical staff, patients, and family members.

Knowledgeable and possesses the nursing skills necessary to provide care appropriate to any age-related needs of the patients.

Shall know the principles of growth and development appropriate to the patient population served: Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adults, and Geriatric (>65).

Assess, coordinate, facilitate, deliver, and evaluate care for infant to geriatric patients using the nursing process.

Knowledge of a wide range of medical disorders/conditions, diagnostic studies, and treatments related to the prevention and detection of illnesses in adults is desirable.

Knowledgeable in professional care theories, principles, practices, and procedures to perform nursing assignments of moderate difficulty, with special needs, paralysis, amputations, and expressive disorders.

Fully comprehensive and fluent in speaking and writing the English language.

Will be able to walk the distance of 500 yards without needing rest, push an occupied wheelchair, push an occupied gurney, and lift linen bags of 30 lbs.

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 database 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 the 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 following 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 the 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 as pulling standardized/ad hoc reports, creating PowerPoint presentations, and documenting meeting minutes.

Assists the TPM with the Department of Defense Trauma Registry (DoDTR), trauma education research, and injury prevention.

Assists the TPM in research development, implementation, and evaluation of trauma care.

Rounds with the TACS team on patients assigned to the TACS service and assists with coordination of inpatient services.

Provides insight into 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.

Able to read (with or without assistive devices) computer screens and medication vials/packets.

Education & Qualifications:

Degree/Education: Bachelor’s degree in Registered Nursing from a college or university accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

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 the Trauma Nurse Coordinator position and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) for the Trauma PI Coordinator position. (d) Experience in nursing documentation in an electronic health record system. (e) Must possess the 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.

Work Schedule:

Hours of Performance: Monday through Friday, in accordance with the work schedule, including coverage on Federal Holidays and Government-designated training holidays.

Shifts: 8-hour

Salary: $57.51 / hr. (Includes H&W)

Essential HealthCare Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal employment and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, don't hesitate to get in touch with Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Accommodation requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to by Human Resources.