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This course offering from the Emergency Nurses Association is designed to take an RN with 6 months of trauma nursing experience and update their core knowledge to the minimum standard of trauma care.
I just completed the course using the 6th edition of the TNCC Provider manual.
There are 14 Contact Hours from the ENA to meet BCEN's Category of Clinical.
Initial certification 2 days/ 14 hours for a 4 year period, recertification is available with a 1 day renewal, or by challenge of the test after initial certification.
Potential instructor requirements are 32/42 available points on the psychomotor trauma assessment and overall score of 90/100 or better on the certification exam.
My evaluation: this is the equivalent of trauma care at the EMT-Intermediate level of training.
The course consists of a rapid trauma assessment followed by the secondary survey and re-evaluation
Some of the components are different than the NREMT Rapid Trauma assessment; however the outline is the same, initial impression, primary survey, secondary survey, evaluation.
Overall the course imparts the information that the title describes: Core Trauma Didactic with selected interventions including: Maintenance of C-Spine/Spinal immobilization, application of hare traction splint, Assistance with RSI/Intubation, Removal of motorcycle helmet, and logrolling.
I just completed the course using the 6th edition of the TNCC Provider manual.
There are 14 Contact Hours from the ENA to meet BCEN's Category of Clinical.
Initial certification 2 days/ 14 hours for a 4 year period, recertification is available with a 1 day renewal, or by challenge of the test after initial certification.
Potential instructor requirements are 32/42 available points on the psychomotor trauma assessment and overall score of 90/100 or better on the certification exam.
My evaluation: this is the equivalent of trauma care at the EMT-Intermediate level of training.
The course consists of a rapid trauma assessment followed by the secondary survey and re-evaluation
Some of the components are different than the NREMT Rapid Trauma assessment; however the outline is the same, initial impression, primary survey, secondary survey, evaluation.
Overall the course imparts the information that the title describes: Core Trauma Didactic with selected interventions including: Maintenance of C-Spine/Spinal immobilization, application of hare traction splint, Assistance with RSI/Intubation, Removal of motorcycle helmet, and logrolling.