Margaret Habermehl Beiland

Coordinate activities for the Adult Trauma Program.

• Maintain detailed records of program activities and participant data, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Monitor performance metrics closely to evaluate areas requiring intervention or adjustment, making data-informed decisions that contributed positively towards overall results.
• Monitor and evaluate program outcomes, applying findings to refine and improve future initiatives.

• Monitors the care delivered by the Trauma Service and the Burn Service according to the American College of Surgeons’ and the American Burn Association’s standards for Level 1 Trauma Centers and ABA verified Burn Centers
• Analyze benchmarking data and assists in changes to improve care delivered
• Collaborates with physician and nursing consultants for the the Trauma and Burn services to ensure the care delivered follows the standards set forth by the ACS, ABA and the Trauma and Burn services at Wake Forest Baptist Health
• Collaborates with our pre-hospital providers to ensure the Trauma and Burn protocols are followed
• Prepares cases for Trauma and Burn Performance Improvement Review, Trauma and Burn M&M review and Trauma Peer Review
• Prepares reports for review at Peer Review and Trauma and Burn PIPS meetings
• Assists with the development of the performance improvement plan for the Trauma and Burn Services
• Assists in the survey process for Trauma Center verification and Burn Center verification
• Participates in the PI subcommittee for the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons

• Responsible for supervising staff nurses, nursing assistants and unit secretary
• Ensured staffing was appropriate for the acuity of patients and the skill set of the staff
• Served as a resource for staff, physicians, medical students, nursing students and paramedic students
• Collaborated with the Trauma attendings, Trauma fellows and ICU triage nurse so that patients were triaged out of the ICU to the appropriate area
• Collaborated with the Emergency Department charge nurse, the ED Trauma senior resident and the ICU triage nurse to ensure all trauma patients were admitted to the ICU as soon as possible, and Level 1 trauma patients arrived in the ICU 30 minutes after their arrival in the ED
• Coordinated the daily activities of the unit
• Attended daily multidisciplinary rounds
• Performed assigned quality improvement projects

• Provided direct patient care for critically ill trauma patients
• Served as unit charge nurse when designated
• Served as a preceptor for new staff, nursing students and paramedic students when designated
• ACLS instructor
• Served as ICU/Admission triage nurse from October 2009 to March 2010

• Provided direct patient care for patients coming to the Emergency Department, which included the Rapid Diagnostic Center, Triage and Trauma
• Serve as a preceptor for new staff, nursing students and paramedic students

• Provided direct patient care for patients coming to the Emergency Department, which included the Acute Care Setting, the Urgent Care, the Rapid Diagnostic Center, The Shock / Trauma Resuscitation Unit and Triage
• Served as a resource for new staff and nursing students, medical students, and paramedic students

• Duties included hiring, orienting, and supervision of home health aides, LPNs, and RNs; admitting patients, care planning, and evaluation of care delivered to patients; marketing, budgeting, negotiating contracts; and collaboration with other health care disciplines

• Provided direct patient care for critically ill trauma patients from the ages of 16 years and older
• Cross-trained to the Emergency Department and staffed in the ED 8 hours per month
• Served as unit charge when designated
• Served as a preceptor to new staff, nursing students and paramedic students

• Provided direct patient care for critically trauma patients from the ages of 16 years and older
• Also cared for emergency general surgery, vascular and transplant patients
• Served as unit charge when designated
• Served as a preceptor to new staff and nursing students
• Participated in the data collection of various research studies
• Filled in as ICU Division Charge Nurse and ICU Bed Coordinator when designated

• Provided direct patient care for critically ill medicine patients
• Served as unit charge nurse when designated
• Precepted new staff and nursing students
• Participated in the data collection of various research studies

• Provided direct patient care for cardiac patients requiring telemetry monitoring, medicine patients, and short-stay research patients