Trauma Resource Nurse in Mansfield Woodhouse

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Job Description Summary: Trauma Resource Nurse - Mansfield Hospital

Are you an experienced ER or ICU nurse with a passion for trauma care and patient advocacy? This is an exciting opportunity to step into a unique role where you'll help shape the future of trauma services while making a meaningful impact on the patient journey beyond the bedside. As the Trauma Resource Nurse, you'll serve as a key resource for trauma patients, providers, and the multidisciplinary care team. This newly created position offers the chance to combine your clinical expertise with care coordination, patient education, and program development. You'll work closely with trauma surgeons, advanced practice providers, and care teams to support patients through recovery and ensure a seamless transition from hospital to home.

What You'll Do

• Coordinate and facilitate trauma patient discharges
• Schedule follow-up appointments and support continuity of care
• Provide comprehensive patient and family education
• Collaborate closely with trauma surgeons, APPs, and interdisciplinary teams
• Serve as a trusted resource for trauma patients throughout their recovery journey

What Makes This Role Unique?

• Be the first and only Trauma Resource Nurse at Mansfield Hospital, helping define and grow this innovative role
• Play a vital part in advancing trauma services and patient outcomes
• Apply a holistic nursing approach focused on education, coordination, and advocacy
• Enjoy a high level of autonomy while working alongside a supportive trauma team
• Build strong relationships with providers through daily collaboration and open communication

We're Looking For

• Registered Nurse with strong clinical experience in Emergency Department or ICU settings
• Previous experience caring for trauma patients or working within a trauma center strongly preferred
• Self-directed professional who thrives in an autonomous environment
• Strong communication, organization, and patient education skills
• Trauma certification (TCRN) preferred but not required

About the Team

The Trauma team at Mansfield Hospital is known for its positive culture, collaborative environment, and strong partnerships between nursing and providers. As this role continues to evolve, you'll have the opportunity to contribute ideas, influence workflows, and help establish best practices for the future of trauma care.

Ideal Candidate

This position is perfect for an experienced trauma, ER, or ICU nurse who is ready for a career move that blends clinical knowledge with coordination, education, and program development. If you enjoy building relationships, driving patient outcomes, and pioneering new opportunities, we'd love to connect with you.

Responsibilities And Duties:

1. 45% Patient Care and Facilitative Functions
• Screens and identifies patients.
• Obtains complete health, social, environmental and development history. Communicates findings to other members of trauma team.
• Performs physical exam and evaluations related to injury and optimal function.
• Assesses patient/family strengths and needs.
• Interprets data obtained through a systematic assessment of body systems to differentiate normal versus abnormal findings.
• Obtains clinical, laboratory and diagnostic information, communicates and interprets results.
• Initiates appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic and educational interventions.
• Designs and implements plan of care for patient and family, utilizing short and long term goals.
• Evaluates and documents responses to interventions and modality the plan of care as indicated.
• Integrates changes as needed.
• Establishes effective relationship with patient/family.
2. 25% Provides case management to patient population with specialized needs at advanced level to promote expert, innovative patient care.
• Facilitates patient/family ability to assume responsibility for managing personal health care.
• Promotes return of patient/family to highest level of wellness possible.
• Ensures right services are delivered at the right site by the right provider at the right time for the right cost.
• Assists with acquisition or verification of financial/insurance information when appropriate.
• Works in collaboration with physicians to provide management of patients with acute and chronic illnesses within area of specialty.
• Facilitates and coordinates quality patient care in timely and cost-effective manner.
• Coordinates and mobilizes health care and community resources to meet needs of patients and families.
• Analyzes inconsistencies and problems in the health care delivery system and influences changes to maximize patient outcomes.
• Coaches members of the health care team to effectively promote optimum patient care.
• Provides consultation for clinical practice and program development in areas of expertise.
3. 15% Fosters clinical inquiry and utilizes relevant research findings to promote advances in patient care.
• Analyzes clinical trends and data to identify patterns for continuous quality improvement and/or research development.
• Reviews current literature, research finding and applies pertinent finding to promote positive outcomes.
• Analyzes patient and aggregate variances and recommends changes to improve outcomes.
• Provides consultation for research application, presentation and/or generation.
• Utilizes appropriate principles of education to meet the learning needs of patient/families and other health care professionals.
4. 15% Influences individuals and systems to maximize effectiveness of health care delivery systems and support quality outcomes for specific populations.
• Identifies need for, plans and/or provides continuing education within areas of expertise for staff and community.
• Collaborates with health care team to evaluate, design and facilitate timely and cost-effective health promotion and disease prevention services.
• Actively participates in Process Improvement activities.
• Provides preceptorship for students.
• Collaborates with program leaders to establish goals, foster innovation and support change.
• Effectively interacts within organization culture.
• Participates in professional organizations and activities.
• Consults with health care team regarding issues of leadership, ethics, and values clarification.
• Mentors clinical staff to foster their personal and professional growth.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• RN - Registered Nurse - Ohio Board of Nursing

Additional Job Description:

• Licensed RN or BS and/or Occupational Therapy or Social Work.
• Licensed in the State of Ohio.
• Significant previous clinical experience in the care of the traumatically-injured patient.
• Effective customer service, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Professionally appropriate analytical and organizational skills.

Work Shift: Day

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Department: Trauma Mansfield

Join us! if your passion is to work in a caring environment, if you believe that learning is a life-long process, if you strive for excellence and want to be among the best in the healthcare industry.

Equal Employment Opportunity: OhioHealth is an equal opportunity employer and fully supports and maintains compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations. OhioHealth does not discriminate against associates or applicants because of race, color, genetic information, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, veteran status, military status, pregnancy, disability, marital status, familial status, or other characteristics protected by law.