Developed by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), TNCC® is identified nationally by the ACS as the minimum standard of trauma nursing education for trauma nurses. TNCC® encompasses core knowledge and interactive skill sessions to aid the trauma nurse in methodically assessing and intervening for critical trauma victims including trauma epidemiology, biomechanics and mechanisms of injury; initial assessment and stabilization of the trauma victim; brain, craniofacial, thoracic, abdominal, spinal cord/vertebral column and burn trauma; shock; geriatric, pediatric, and obstetric trauma considerations; psychological trauma; and transfer and transport of the trauma victim.
The Instructor Course is designed to prepare Providers with Instructor Potential to become instructors. The TNCC-I course emphasizes appropriate teaching strategies as well as correct evaluation methods. Students must reverify by completing a written exam and the Trauma Nursing Process skill station to continue with the course. Instructor Potential students scoring a minimum of 90% on the written exam and 85% on the skill stations, and who take an Instrutor course within 90 days of the Provider course, do not have to retest.
Registrants must include a copy of their current TNCC® Provider card, Instructor Potential letter, resume/CV and statement from course director/state faculty promising to mentor registrant through student teaching process. Registration must be received at least 60 days prior to course date to allow time for State Council approval. TNCC® instructor candidates must complete their student teaching requirements within one year of taking the instructor course and must teach once a year thereafter to remain current.
If you have questions about this course, contact course director Janelle Glasgow at 614-255-4396 or jglasgow@goodhealthcolumbus.org. This course is co-sponsored with the Ohio State Council of the Emergency Nurses Association.