Trauma Ctr Injury Prevention Coord RN

Founded in 1955 Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a 394-bed acute care nonprofit community hospital located in Northridge California. The hospital offers a full complement of award winning services including the Leavey Cancer Center a cardiovascular center stroke center the Center for Assault Treatment Services a pediatric medical center and the only pediatric trauma center in the San Fernando Valley. As a leading provider of compassionate high-quality and affordable patient-centered care we share a rich legacy with Dignity Health one of the nations five largest health care systems. We are part of a 21-state network of nearly 9000 physicians 62000 employees and more than 400 care centers. Visit here for more information.

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Under the supervision of the trauma program manager overall responsibilities include coordinating injury prevention programs planning and implementing tasks providing injury prevention education and conducting evaluations and reports to assess quality and performance of injury prevention programs. As part of the trauma team expectations include overall support as needed with performance improvement and registry.

• Promotes community awareness of the trauma system as well as injury prevention. Participates with community wide trauma education and injury prevention programs for both hospital and the public. This will require occasional weekends and flexibility with schedule and work location.
• Functions as a designated injury prevention spokesperson for injury prevention.
• Develops plans and implements injury prevention programs and outreach activities using evidence based research when available.
• Identify high rates of injury and the populations in which the injuries occur. Target the at-risk populations and run reports to collect and analyze data for evaluation of current and future injury prevention efforts.
• Trains and educates health care professionals and the community in injury prevention.
• Develop operational tools necessary to achieve injury prevention objectives and services.
• Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

• Minimum 3 years experience as an Emergency Room or ICU Nurse and the last 2 years in a trauma center.
• Must be Graduate of an accredited Nursing School/Program.
• BSN Degree required
• Skilled clinical experience in the overall care of the trauma patiet required
• Current and active RN:CA;
• AHA BLS ACLS;
• AHA PALS -- within 90 days of hire
• FIRESAFETY -- within 90 days of hire;
• TNCC -- within 6 months of hire
• Trauma Nurse Core Course instructor preferred
• Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses preferred