UUH Trauma Program

Benefits of the ATCN Course include an educational, team building, collaborative, and synchronized approach to trauma care as trauma nurses share didactic lectures with the physician attendees of the ATLS Course. Doctors and nurses caring for trauma patients have the opportunity to share a common language and approach to trauma care. When the ATLS attendees break out for physician skill stations the ATCN nurses convene in trauma nursing skills stations.

The course includes presentations on initial assessment, airway management, abdominal trauma, thoracic trauma, shock, head and spinal cord trauma, burns, extremity trauma, pediatric trauma, elderly trauma, trauma during pregnancy, and stabilization and transport. Coupled with the lectures are corresponding practical skills stations and moulage assessment.