Trauma Nursing
Core Course (TNCC)
Description
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) is a 16-hour, two-day course designed to provide core-level trauma knowledge and psychomotor skills associated with the delivery of professional nursing care to the trauma patient. It is intended to enhance cognitive skills, to sharpen technical skills, and to provide a foundation for future learning. ENA has recommended TNCC as the minimal required education for emergency nurses who care for trauma patients.
Features and course structure include:
- Virtual learning modules including avatar-based simulation
- Interactive teaching strategies
- Electronic, open-book testing – No more test anxiety!
- Updated evidence-based provider manual
- Two days course
- The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The Emergency Nurses Association is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #2322.
Course manual content:
- Trauma Nursing and the Trauma Nursing Core Course
- Spinal Cord and Vertebral Column Trauma
- Teamwork and Trauma Care
- Musculoskeletal Trauma
- Epidemiology
- Surface and Burn Trauma
- Biomechanics, Kinematics, and Mechanisms of Injury
- Special Populations: The Pregnant Trauma Patient
- Initial Assessment
- Special Populations: The Pediatric Trauma Patient
- Airway and Ventilation
- Special Populations: The Older Adult Trauma Patient
- Shock
Target Audience–Registered Nurses
- Special Populations: The Bariatric Trauma Patient
- Pain
- Special Populations: The Interpersonal Violence Trauma Patient
- Brain, Cranial, and Maxillofacial Trauma
- Psychosocial Aspects of Trauma Care
- Ocular Trauma
- Disaster Management
- Thoracic and Neck Trauma
- Transition of Care for the Trauma Patient
- Abdominal and Pelvic Trauma
- Post Resuscitation Care in the Emergency Depart
