Trauma Services Coordinator: A Case Study

The executive summary in this paper is a proposal to realign the staffing of the Trauma Services Department to include a Trauma Services Coordinator. With advance notice, this proposal would be presented at the monthly trauma services meeting. The target population, also known as the stakeholders, include the Trauma Registrar, Trauma Services Manager, Trauma Services Director, Chief Trauma Surgeon, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, and Chief Medical Officer.
Purpose
Realigning the Trauma Services Department to include a Trauma Services Coordinator is a cost effective and innovative way to expand the role of the current Trauma Registrar and meet the injury and violence prevention needs of the hospital and the community. By expanding …show more content…
By changing the role of the full-time Trauma Registrar to a Trauma Coordinator, the Trauma Services Department can expand its role in Trauma prevention. This realignment will not cost the hospital any money, and will possibly gain grant money by an increased focus on injury prevention. The role of the Trauma Coordinator will include supervising and assisting with the Trauma Registry, educating staff, rounding on patients, and coordinating and organizing the injury prevention programs. This will allow the Trauma Manager to focus on Trauma Reviews, loop closure, writing grants for injury prevention programs, meeting preparation and attendance, as well as the other managerial tasks required of a unit manager. The part-time Trauma Registrar will focus on entering information into the trauma registry. The trauma registry provides valuable information and statistics about the injury prevention needs of the community. Emulating the positive practices of a facility that uses this design is one was to incorporate this realignment. Parker Adventist Hospital has this successful model of a Trauma Services Department in place and is willing to off their assistance with