Quadra Education Group

Course Objectives

• Prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill patient.
• Select appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable patient.
• Recognize and initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions.
• Determine the need for expert consultation and/or patient transfer and prepare the practitioner for optimally accomplishing transfer.

After participating in the FDM course, participants should be able to:

• Identify the core structure and functions of disaster incident management and describe how the critical care response is coordinated by the interfaces with incident managers.
• List the types of events that are most likely to require a critical care response and describe the anticipated critical care needs of the affected people.
• Explain the significant changes in organization, staffing, and responsibility that may improve the provision of critical care during a mass casualty.
• Describe the guiding principle for triage and allocation of scarce critical care resources during a disaster.
• Demonstrate how to setup and troubleshoot alternative positive pressure ventilation equipment such as the mechanical ventilators maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Strategic National Stockpile.
• Recognize the emergency situations that require use of personal protective equipment (PPE) or environmental controls while caring for critically ill victims.

The FDM course includes a combination of didactic sessions and skill stations and can be offered as an independent course or as an add-on module to the FCCS course.

Target Audience:

Critical care health professionals including pharmacists, respiratory care professionals, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians.

Also, persons who have successfully completed Society of Critical Care Medicine's Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course and who are expected to have significant critical care responsibilities during an emergency.

Participants who successfully complete the required provider or instructor course receive a certificate of successful completion, and are referred to as FDM Trained.*

TNCC (Provider) Course Content

• The Trauma Nursing Core Course and Trauma Nursing
• Epidemiology, Biomechanics and Mechanisms of Injury
• Initial Assessment
• Airway and Ventilation
• Shock
• Brain and Cranial Trauma
• Ocular, Maxillofacial, and Neck Trauma
• Thoracic Trauma
• Abdominal Trauma
• Spinal Cord and Vertebral Column Trauma
• Musculoskeletal Trauma
• Surface and Burn Trauma
• Special Populations: Pregnant, Pediatric, and Older Adult Trauma Patients
• Disaster Management
• Psychosocial Aspects of Trauma Care
• Transition of Care for the Trauma Patient
• Demonstration of the Trauma Nursing Process Station

Skill Stations

• Trauma Nursing Process Teaching Stations
• Airway and Ventilation Interventions Teaching Stations
• Spinal Protection, Helmet Removal, and Splinting
• Physical Assessment Station (International; optional for U.S.)

Evaluation

Successful completion of the course includes scoring 80% or greater on the multiple choice examination and demonstrating all critical steps and 70% of the total points in the evaluated skill station of the Trauma Nursing Process.

TNCC Verification

Verification will be issued from ENA upon successful completion of the evaluated psychomotor skill station and the multiple choice examination. Expiration of verification will occur four years from the last day of the month in which the card was issued. ENA does not offer certification on any level as related to completion of this course.

Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours

Contact hours are awarded based on hours attended, regardless of performance during evaluation.