[Hiring] RN Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator @HCA Healthcare

Role Description

Operating in a fully remote, work-from-home capacity, the RN Trauma PI Coordinator PRN serves a vital role within the HCA Gulf Coast Division. This regional position manages trauma care quality, monitoring patient data and performance metrics across the division's wide footprint of Level II, III, and IV designated trauma centers. To build an effective and compliant PIPS process, the Coordinator leverages data from multiple regional services.

• Coordinates with the Air Life medical transport helicopter team for pre-hospital and critical flight evaluations.
• Reviews admission paths from more than 30 freestanding HCA Houston ER 24/7 centers.
• Analyzes continuum-of-care feedback from the Trauma Survivors Network.
• Partners with trauma registrars and on-call medical specialists to ensure standardized, state-compliant, and high-acuity trauma care.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date).
• Current BLS issued from American Heart Association required.
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC); required within 90 days of hire.
• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC); required within 90 days of hire.
• Trauma Outcomes and Performance Improvement Course (TOPIC); required within 90 days of hire.
• Trauma, emergency, critical care, performance improvement, quality, or related clinical experience is preferred.
• Experience with trauma performance improvement, trauma registry review, clinical chart review, peer review preparation, or trauma program operations is preferred.
• Knowledge of trauma systems, trauma performance improvement, patient safety principles, clinical practice guidelines, and the continuum of trauma care is preferred.
• Experience reviewing complex trauma cases and identifying clinical, documentation, process, and system-level opportunities for improvement is preferred.

Requirements

• Conducts remote concurrent and retrospective reviews of patient care to find improvement opportunities and ensure compliance with trauma standards.
• Supports the Performance Improvement and Patient Safety workflow from initial event identification through monitoring and final loop closure.
• Partners directly with Trauma Program Directors, facility PI Coordinators, Medical Directors, and trauma registrars.
• Interacts with multidisciplinary teams—including nursing leaders, physicians, and quality personnel—to track, trend, and investigate clinical events.
• Validates performance improvement events and prepares comprehensive case data for secondary and multidisciplinary reviews.
• Assists assigned trauma programs in maintaining organized, sustainable, and effective PIPS initiatives that meet regulatory expectations.

Benefits

• Work from Home, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues.
• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.