TCAR: Trauma Care After Resuscitation

by Laura M. Criddle

This course is designed to provide acute care, critical care, emergency, perioperative, and rehabilitation nurses the foundational, evidence-based information and critical thinking skills necessary to address the needs of the hospitalized trauma patient. TCAR covers a wide range of pathophysiological and nursing concepts and is designed to be a broad, core level program, rather than an advanced or specialty-specific course.

Although registered nurses are TCAR’s target audience, the information contained in this program has proven useful to physical therapists, paramedics, social workers, dieticians, respiratory therapists, LVNs/LPNs, and others who interact with the hospitalized trauma patient.

Outcomes:

» Describe the trauma continuum of care.

» Explain the biomechanics of common injuries.

» Identify high risk patient populations.

» Anticipate specific wounds and complications based on mechanism of injury information.

» Recognize and influence the body’s multisystem responses to traumatic insults.

» Integrate physical assessment, imaging studies, vital signs, and laboratory data to evaluate the hospitalized trauma patient.

» Describe standard nursing, medical, surgical, and ancillary care interventions for frequently encountered injuries.

» Interact with interdisciplinary team members to provide appropriate and timely care to injured patients.

» Prevent, identify, and manage complications common to the hospitalized trauma patient.

» Select realistic trauma patient goals and evaluate care outcomes.

» Address the psychosocial needs of hospitalized trauma patients and their family members.

176 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2011