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title: "When Minutes Count ... How to Document Comprehensive Minutes for PIPS"
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url: "https://traumanurses.org/education/archived-webinars/item/when-minutes-count-how-to-document-comprehensive-minutes-for-pips"
date: "2026-06-21T10:30:29+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  When Minutes Count ... How to Document Comprehensive Minutes for PIPS

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**Presentation Date:** 09/26/2023

**CE Expiration Date:** 09/26/2026

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Documentation of Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) continues to be a challenge for trauma centers. Ensuring comprehensive PIPS minutes is key to successful PIPS documentation. This webinar will focus on how to ensure robust PIPS minutes including how to capture critical discussions. Discussion will also include how to incorporate PIPS minutes into the overall PIPS process. The American College of Surgeons 2022 Standards in relation to meeting minutes will be a part of this webinar.

**Learning Objectives:**

- Describe the importance of PIPS documentation
- Identify components of comprehensive PIPS minutes
- Recognize one tip for improved PIPS documentation

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**Tracy Cotner-Pouncy** is currently the Sr. Director of Trauma Services for UCHealth Northern Colorado with over 25 years of trauma management experience. Previously, she served as the Senior Director of Trauma Services for the Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Programs at University Health System in San Antonio, Texas for ten years. Prior to that, she was the Trauma Program Manager at Wilford Hall Medical Center, a military Level I trauma program in San Antonio. Ms. Cotner-Pouncy started her trauma career as the Trauma Designation Coordinator for the Texas Department of Health.

Ms. Cotner-Pouncy is a regional, state, and national leader in trauma management. She currently serves as a Director-at-Large for the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN). She is also a member of the Trauma Nursing Leadership Council for the American Trauma Society (ATS). Ms. Cotner-Pouncy serves as a Nurse Reviewer for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as well as the STN liaison to the ACS Trauma Systems Committee and the Best Practice Guideline Workgroup.

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