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Overview
Goals and Outcomes
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Overview
Overview
The goal of this course is to educate nursing professionals in the acute care setting about how to quickly assess and intervene in cases of traumatic injuries.
 
After taking this course, you should be able to:
  • Identify the components of the trauma primary and secondary assessments.
  • Determine the interventions needed to treat life-threatening and other injuries.
  • Identify the differences in assessment and care of special populations sustaining traumatic injuries.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
Among individuals under the age of 45, traumatic injury is the leading cause of death worldwide (Bach et al., 2017).
 
Trauma patient care requires a systematic approach to rapidly identify and intervene when a patient presents with life-threatening injuries. This approach allows the trauma nurse to follow a pre-defined algorithm to reduce patient harm and improve outcomes. The goal of the primary survey is to rapidly assess the patient and treat life-threatening injuries (Planas et al., 2021). The secondary survey is designed to obtain a thorough history, manage pain, complete a full assessment to identify other injuries, and obtain other diagnostic studies (Parker & Magnusson, 2016).
Details
Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 11/15/2021

REL-ACU-0-TAM

Course Author

Julie Matson

MSN, RN, NEA-BC, TNS, CEN

Kimberly Workman

MA

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.