University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Trauma Registered Nurse Harborview Medical Center is seeking an experienced Trauma Registered Nurse interested in joining our Trauma Registry Team, specializing in Injury Severity Coding. Unit Description The trauma registry is a complex database utilized by trauma hospitals to guide process and quality improvement efforts. Important secondary uses of registry data include education and outreach programs, injury prevention initiatives, clinical care research and local and state policy development. The Harborview Trauma Registry Team reviews a wide variety of data points ranging from prehospital and referring provider care, emergency resuscitation and surgical interventions, and inpatient care activities through discharge. Duties Identify all the injuries of patients meeting trauma registry inclusion criteria and enter them into the trauma registry software. Assign Abbreviated Injury Scores (AIS) and ICD-9 (or ICD-10) diagnosis codes for each injury and calculating an Injury...