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TRAUMA REGISTRAR, EMERGENCY SERVICES - TEMP TO PERM - PARAMEDIC PREFERRED

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Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 957 inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 51 operating rooms; an endo-surgery center; an Ambulatory Surgery Center with nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area. In fiscal year 2018, Duke University Hospital admitted 42,916 patients and had 1,085,740 outpatient visits in fiscal year 2017.

U.S News & World Report named Duke University Hospital #1 in North Carolina and #1 in the Raleigh-Durham area in 2018-19.

Duke University Hospital is ranked in the top 20 nationally for seven adult specialties, including cardiology and heart surgery, nephrology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology, and urology.

In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.

Job Title: TRAUMA REGISTRAR
Job Code: 4162
FLSA: N
Job Level: D2
Revised Date: 02/18/2019
Supervisory Responsibility: No

ATTN: THIS IS A TEMPORARY POSITION FOR UP TO 12-MONTHS THAT CAN CONVERT TO PERMANENT.

General Description of the Job Class
Position collaborates closely with Trauma Center staff to maintain the efficient operations of hospital, state, and national trauma registry. Maintains the database unique to trauma registry. This can include identification, collection, coding, scoring, and entering of data into a registry database. In addition, performing follow-up for the purposes of incidence, treatment and outcomes, performance improvement, administrative planning and marketing, support programs and research activities. Interprets data for research projects. Ensures adherence to data management protocols to insure regulatory compliance standards. Assists with quality control activities, information requests, and quality improvement studies as requested.

Collects treatment and outcome information for quality improvement activities, administrative planning and marketing, support programs and research activities. Interprets data for research projects. Ensures adherence to data management protocols set forth to maintain Level I trauma status. Assists with quality control activities, information requests, and quality improvement studies as requested.

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level
Level I -

  • Trauma Registrar Performs identification and abstraction from the medical record, and entry into the trauma database, on each trauma patient meeting trauma registry database qualification.
  • Analyzes data for accuracy and validates for submission to the state and national databases in a timely manner. Interprets data and prepares reports for performance improvement, support of related programs, administrative planning and marketing, research purposes, and regulatory visits.
  • Coordinates with outside agencies to obtain medical records.
  • Participates in local, state, and national meetings and conferences as required by state and national regulations.
  • Acts as a resource for others in the abstracting and coding of trauma injuries

Level II -

  • Trauma Registrar In addition to the Level I responsibilities:
    • Independently researches and solves complex coding problems.
    • Serves as coach and educational resource to Level I Trauma Registrars.

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education
High School diploma plus 2 years post high school education or associated work experience.

Experience
One year experience as a Trauma registrar, or similar health-related experience such as a RN, EMT, CNA, medical coder, HIM, etc.

Previous experience in chart auditing, ICD9 & 10 codes, medical procedure coding strongly preferred.

Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification
Level 1: Successful completion of American Trauma Society's (ATS) registrar exam and the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicines' (AAAM) injury scale coding exam within 12-months of employment.

In addition to ATS and AAAMA must successful complete the Certified Specialist in Trauma Registries (CSTR) exam within 18-months of employment.

Maintains active license/certification such as RN, EMT, CNA, etc.

Level 2: ATS, AAAM, and CSTR certification.

Maintains certifications along with applicable license/certification such as RN, EMT, CNA, etc.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Knowledge of basic medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology
  • Must be able to work in a team atmosphere in close proximity with other team members
  • Demonstrates ability in successful interpersonal communication and customer service skills
  • A high degree of skill set is need in the following areas: Independence and self-direction, strong degree of interpersonal skills, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, working knowledge of Microsoft office to include above average knowledge in word and excel.
  • Ability to run and validate complex reports through the trauma registry's report writer.

Distinguishing Characteristics of this Level

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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