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Trauma Nursing Core Course was developed by the Emergency Nursing Association in order to provide nurses with a standardized body of knowledge to recognize and understand trauma pathophysiology, learn systematic and comprehensive techniques for assessing trauma patients, and train to intervene safely and effectively against life-threatening conditions resulting from traumatic injuries. While the course focuses on adult trauma patients, all populations are discussed, including pregnant, geriatric, bariatric, and pediatric patients.
Recognizing the potential opportunity to provide this highly sought-after course, Capt. Krista Wellein and Capt. Erick Thronson, both TNCC instructors and trauma nurses deployed with the 28th CSH, sought to establish a TNCC program to supplement the unit’s already rigorous clinical training program. Their ambitious endeavor, however, was not without numerous challenges. No unit previously deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve had hosted a TNCC program and no mechanism existed to organize a course in-theater.
In order to hold an official course, a sponsoring organization was required and a course director able to attend and validate the course was needed. With the support of Col. Kendra Whyatt, 28th CSH deputy commander for nursing, Wellein served as course coordinator and secured sponsorship from the TNCC program at Carl R. Darnell Army Medical
Center, Fort Hood, Texas. Perhaps the only qualified TNCC course director deployed to the area of operations, Lt. Col. Randi Schaefer, chief of clinical operations for Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, graciously agreed to fill the position and the 28th CSH finally had its course.
Held over three days, Schaefer, Wellein, and Thronson instructed a diverse student body of military nurses, civilian nurses supporting the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Iraq, and combat medics auditing the course for professional development. After seventeen lectures, multiple skills stations, and numerous trauma simulations, these individuals completed both a written and hands-on examination, validating their knowledge, competence, and professionalism.
The 28th CSH not only provides mission command to key medical enablers in the combined joint area of operations, but also serves as the medical hub for Operation Inherent Resolve. The unit maintains robust medical capabilities in order to stabilize, hold, and stage critically ill and injured casualties awaiting aeromedical evacuation from the combat theater, important efforts which sustain Coalition forces working to weaken and destroy Da’esh, an Arabic acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Service members from many coalition nations, including the United States, are present on the ground to provide logistical support and to advise and assist their Iraqi counterparts in the fight.
Though not engaged in direct operations against Da’esh, Coalition service members, nevertheless, find themselves in harm’s way every day. Recognizing that truth, the nurses who volunteered to complete the Trauma Nursing Core Course while deployed to Iraq demonstrated their commitment to preparing themselves to save lives and sustain the fighting force.
| Date Taken: | 11.03.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 11.17.2016 02:32 |
| Story ID: | 214601 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
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