**Job Summary:**

The Trauma Registrar is responsible for the collection and abstraction of data base elements following the criteria of inclusion for state and/or national trauma databases

**Responsibilities:**

The Trauma Registrar, reporting directly to the Trauma Nurse Director/Manager, supports the Southside Medical Center’s organizational requirements for verification as a Level III Trauma Center by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the standards set forth by the American College of Surgeons for maintaining a trauma registry database.

+ The Trauma Registrar identifies cases for inclusion into the registry data base from various sources including the Master Patient Index, the ED log, and the Trauma Log based upon the guidelines of National Trauma Data Base standard.
+ Data abstracted will be from various sources including, but not limited, to the electronic medical record, prehospital databases, autopsies reports, and other data sources, either ...