Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN®) - Blended Learning

Description

The ATCN® Blended Learning Student Course is an alternative option to the traditional two-day ATCN® Student Course. Students choosing to take the blended learning option will be required to complete the full complement of online MyATLS learning modules prior to attending the classroom portion of the course. An access link for the learning modules will be provided via email once your registration has been received.

Injured patients present a wide range of complex problems. Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN®) is an advanced course designed for the registered nurse interested in increasing their knowledge in the management of multiple trauma patients. ATCN® was developed to teach established standards of care and practical, life saving skills. This advanced trauma course is designed for nurses working in emergency departments, ICUs, medical surgical floors or operating rooms who wish to increase their knowledge and practical skills in managing multiple trauma patients. The ATCN® program has been operational for over 15 years and has an excellent record of offering a superb trauma educational program, and maintaining a positive collaboration with the ACS Committee on Trauma State Chapters.


ATCN® skill stations include:

• Initial Assessment and Management
• Airway and Ventilatory Management
• Pediatric Trauma
• Hemorrhagic Shock
• Musculoskeletal & Spinal Trauma
• Head Trauma

The skill stations are based on an interactive "hands-on scenario-based approach" to adult education. The practical testing stations allow the ATCN® students to demonstrate the application of ATCN® information on a moulaged patient. Participants will receive an ATCN® manual. For a renewal course, your certification must be current. Please note, this course is designed for nurses. Practical skills stations and testing along with lectures are conducted by ATCN® faculty.

A Note on Credits

The Society of Trauma Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The ATCN® Blended Learning Student Course has been awarded 19 contact hours for students who attend the entire course. Partial credits are not available.

Student Course Manual

All participants are expected to bring with them an ATCN® Manual 10th Edition Student Course Manual. Registration fees include the manual and shipping. Every effort will be made to deliver these materials prior to the course. If your registration is received within two weeks of the course date, the manual will be given to you the day of the course.

Your shipping address will be the home address entered during the registration process. NO PO BOXES.

In order to accommodate these requirements, process your registration, provide you with a manual and the link to take the pre-test in a timely manner, registration for each course date will close 7 days prior to the session.

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Target Audience

Experienced nurses practicing in pre-hospital and aeromedical, emergency departments, surgical intensive care units, and operating rooms; and others interested in trauma-related care.

Objectives

• Assess the patient's condition rapidly and accurately
• Perform a primary assessment and resuscitation with decision to transfer on a priority basis
• Discuss indications for and treatment goals with nursing responsibilities for various adjuncts, management techniques of hemorrhagic shock, head trauma, spine and extremity trauma and special management considerations for managing pediatric trauma
• Perform a comprehensive secondary assessment

Faculty

• Adam Czerwinski, MBA, BSN, RN, TCRN