TNP
What does TNP stand for?
What is Trauma Nursing Process
How external forces are transferred to the body, resulting in injury
What is the definition of Mechanism of Injury
Identification of life threatening injuries through ABCDE's.
What is the Goal of primary survey
Categorizes patients so most critical are treated first
-5 level system
What is the triage or ESI system?
Unpredictable, could not be prevented, and
could not be escaped
What are the common elements of trauma?
What does C-ABC represent in TNP?
What is the across-the-room circulation-active hemorrhage assessment proponent of the TNP process.
The result of a broad energy impact across a large surface
What is Blunt Trauma
How do you open an airway if there is a suspected C-spine injury?
What is a jaw thrust
Any extraordinary event that requires a rapid and skilled response and can be managed by a community's existing resources
What is emergency prepardness?
(1) Single incident trauma
(2) Complex or repetitive trauma
(3) Developmental trauma
(4) Intergenerational trauma
(5) Historical trauma
What are the (5) types of trauma?
Where does LMNOP fall in the TNP?
What is the Get Monitoring Devices and Give Comfort section of the Primary Survey.
Energy that results in impalement at the point of impact. Injury potential affected by the velocity of the object.
What is penetrating trauma?
The Initiation of 2 large bore IV's and pulse checks
What is priority for the circulation survey?
A natural or human-made event or disaster that overwhelms the community's ability to respond with existing resources Name one way to allow a child to become "connected".
What is a mass causality incident?
Prolonged family violence, physical/sexual/emotional abuse or neglect, or witnessing violence at home
What are examples of developmental trauma?
What Mnemonic relates to Just Keep Evaluating?
What is VIPP:
Vital Signs
Injury Identification and Intervention Effectiveness
Primary Assessment (repeated)
Pain reassessment
What phenomena occurs with an explosion:
Overpressure
Dynamic pressure
What is blast trauma
Elevated pressure noted (>30) so blood flow will be inhibited to the distal area. Causing severe pain out of proportion to the injury.
What is compartment syndrome?
System of colored tags designating seriousness of injury and likelihood of survival.
-Green (minor injury) or yellow (non-life-threatening injury) tag indicates noncritical injury.
-Red tag indicates life-threatening injury.
-Blue tag indicates those who are expected to die.
-Black tag identifies the dead.
What is the Colored Tag System in Emergency Management?
Acknowledgment
Safety and Trust
Choice, Control, and Collaboration
Compassion
Strengths-Based
What are the guiding principles of trauma-informed care?
Name three anticipated interventions and diagnostics of the trauma patient.
What are:
Trauma CT series, ortho consult, tetanus injection, psychosocial evaluation, related extremity Xrays, pain management.
A separation of tissue as the result of a sound or hydraulic wave force. This is unique to high-velocity penetrating trauma, including blast and gunshot wounds.
What is cavitation
A freely moving section of the rib cage is displaced. Identified with 3 or more fractures in 2 or more places.
What is a flail chest?
Preparedness, response, mitigation, recovery, and evaluation
What are the five main parts of disaster planning?
Smoking, physical inactivity, alcohol and/or drug abuse, repetition of trauma, eating disorders
severe obesity: suicide attempts, 50+ sexual partners, self injury, violent and aggressive behavior
What are the health risks of trauma?