TRAUMA REGISTRAR FOR TEXAS HEALTH DENTON

Are you looking for a rewarding career with family-friendly hours and top-notch benefits?
We’re looking for a qualified Trauma Registrar like you to join our Texas Health family.

• Provides quality, safe patient care and exceptional customer service.
• Contributes to creating and maintaining a collaborative work environment.
• Champions actions to reduce/eliminate patient risks.
• Incorporates customer needs and expectations into daily operations.
• Collaborates with all customer groups (staff, physicians, patients, family, external customers) to determine customer expectations.
• Completes daily analysis of medical records for trauma patients and determines eligibility for registry reporting.
• Maintains registry, orderly records of data to be coded and abstracts.
• Completes daily obligations addressing case discovery, patient rounds and performance improvement process.
• Communicates current regulatory requirements and monitors compliance.
• Performs queries for reports from the trauma registry database.
• Analyzes data to fulfill administrative and medical staff requests.
• Downloads essential data to the Texas Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology on a monthly basis and National Trauma Data Bank annual download.
• Collects patient care data, identifies and reports significant findings to Trauma Program Manager/Coordinator and Trauma Medical Director.
• Monitors trauma patient records for quality improvement indicators.
• Provides quality, patient-centered care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient and equitable.
• Establishes collegial relationships with physicians.
• Supports and maintains effective communication among physicians, staff and other departments.
• Consistently promotes a professional image of in demeanor, appearance, attitude and behaviors.
• Integrates team building strategies and principles of group process in interactions.
• Provides safe patient care at affordable costs delivered by compassionate caregivers.
• Identifies ineffective and costly processes and takes action to improve those processes.
• Remains flexible with scheduling to help meet departmental/patient needs.
• Assumes responsibility for and participates in projects as needed.
• Helps to coordinate care across a broader continuum of patient care including injury prevention, pre-hospital, acute, emergent, and rehabilitation.
• Integrates the ACS guidelines for trauma patient care into the continuum of patient care.
• Coordinates efforts in the progressive growth of trauma system.
• Contributes to unit-based programs.
• Contributes to research strategies.