Trauma Nuts and Bolts - September 26, 2024
This is a live Educational Activity.
Trauma Nuts and Bolts provides fundamental understanding of mechanisms of injury, considers care of injured patients, and identifies nursing assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation of care.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for is designed to present the current evidenced based proven interventions for traumatically injured patients from a registered nurse perspective and scope of practice. Other learner groups such as Patient Care Technicians, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Certified Nurse’s Aides would also benefit from this education.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
- discuss the mechanism of injury in the following area chest and abdomen.
- identify nursing interventions to assist the healing process of trauma patients.
- describe the care of special trauma patients with chest injuries.
- apply immobilization collar to patient with suspected c-spine injury.
*Topics and Speakers are subject to change.
Content Disclosure
The faculty have attested that their presentation and/or content is HIPAA compliant.
Individuals in a position to control educational content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
*Any/All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Geisinger College of Health Sciences 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.
Credit Designation
Geisinger College of Health Sciences designates this live activity for 6.5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.
Disclosure Policy
Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing education activity sponsored by Geisinger College of Health Sciences must disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).
Commercial Support
None
Available Credit
- 6.50 ANCC
- 6.50 Participation Credit