Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator

Lebanon, New Hampshire United States of America

This position is full-time, 40 hours per week. The chosen candidate will assume responsibility for monitoring and evaluating the quality of clinical care for trauma patients and identifying performance improvement issues.  The Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator will work as part of a broader team with the clinical performance being monitored by the Performance Improvement Medical Director and evaluations by the Trauma Program Manager. Requirements for the Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator include a Masters degree in nursing or the equivalent with a minimum of 5 years of direct clinical nursing.  Experience with trauma populations and with education is preferred.  Intermediate skills in computer applications and database utilization required.  Excellent communication skills desired.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is New Hampshire’s only integrated, academic, level I trauma center. We are located in a state-of-the-art facility that was built on an expansive 225-acre campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley. The Medical Center includes a modern 400-bed tertiary care hospital, the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, research and clinical facilities for Dartmouth Medical School (the country’s fourth oldest), and The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, a region wide multi-specialty community practice group started in 1927.

Employees at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center receive the support both on and off the job to do their best possible work here.  We hire and retain the best health care professionals in the country by offering competitive salaries and extraordinary benefits, including:

- Earned Time Off in Your First Year of 34 Days, with a Cash-Out Option for Unused Time
- Interview and Relocation Assistance (both financial support and professional housing consultants)
- Health, Life, Dental, and Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Outstanding Employee Retirement Plan
- Tax-Deferred 403(b) Annuity
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition Reimbursement
- On-Campus Child Care
- Free On-Site Parking

Applicants are encouraged to apply online at http://www.dhmc.org

DHMC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Caryn Shepard
Employment Specialist/Nurse Recruitment
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756-0001

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Trauma Fellow

John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Unit
John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, Australia, is a Level 1 Trauma Centre. It is the principal referral center, teaching hospital and a community hospital for Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and beyond. It is the only trauma center in New South Wales outside Sydney and has the busiest emergency department in the state. It serves a population of 840,000 with an average of 400 major trauma admissions/year (ISS>15). A well established helicopter retrieval service is just off campus.
Clinical Responsibilities
The chief role of the Trauma Fellow is to facilitate the day-to-day management of the seriously ill trauma patient from resuscitation to rehabilitation.
Attends Trauma Team activations during working hours, ensuring that the patient progresses to definitive care in an efficient timely fashion, and gets actively involved in both resuscitative and surgical management.
Performs daily rounds of all the new trauma patients and all trauma patients in ICU and HDU with the Trauma Coordinator, reviewing clinical progresses, and diagnostic imaging and discussing the overall management plan at a consultant level.
Communicates with specialty consultants, Trauma Director and Deputy Director.
Participates in the after hours on call emergency surgical roster.
Teaching Responsibilities
Organises weekly multidisciplinary education session (Multidisciplinary Trauma Forum).
Implements regular orientation programs for interns, residents and registrars (both at the John Hunter Hospital and the Area) in basic trauma management, trauma team roles and current hospital trauma protocols.
Works with the Trauma Director, Trauma Deputy Director, and Trauma Coordinator to analyse data and identify trends that need evaluation.
Research Responsibilities
Participates in clinical research in trauma related areas, develops a good working knowledge of trauma scoring systems and mentored and supervised by the Trauma Director and Deputy Director, presents on national and international trauma conferences and publishes in peer-reviewed journals.
Applicant Requirements
Medical degree registrable in New South Wales.
Complete training in General Surgery, Orthopaedics or Traumatology.
ATLS/EMST trained, preferably instructor status.
Experience in trauma teaching.
Clinical research.
Previous publications (peer reviewed journals).
English proficiency (IELTS Academic Module; minimum score of 7 in each component)
Salary
Fellowship/ Registrar level - subject to NSW award and applicant qualifications

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Conjoint A/Prof. Zsolt Balogh, MD, PhD, FRACS
Associate Professor, University of NewcastleAss. Prof Zsolt Balogh
Staff Specialist Trauma Surgeon, John Hunter Hospital
Director of Trauma Services, Hunter New England Area Health Service
Trauma Service
Division of Surgery
John Hunter Hospital
Locked Bag No. 1
Hunter Region Mail Centre NSW 2310
AUSTRALIA
Telephone +61 +2 4921-4259
Facsimile +61 +2 4921-4274

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