Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Develop more confidence when caring for trauma patients in the trauma room and throughout their hospital stay.
2. Describe trauma patients who are decompensating or requiring interventions.
3. Develop the confidence and autonomy to intervene and notify the trauma team when patients are decompensating.
4. Describe patients who require high level trauma activation based on information given and patient assessment.

Faculty

Caitlin Millett BSN, RN
Adult Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator
Department of Surgery
Baystate Medical Center 

Kristina Grochowski MSN, RN
Trauma Program Manager
Department of Surgery
Baystate Medical Center

Yolanda Marrow MSN, RN
Pediatric Surgery Program Manager
Department of Surgery
Baystate Medical Center

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.