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 the information given and patient assessment.

Faculty

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

Jennifer Gold, BSN, RN, CEN
Trauma Education Coordinator
Emergency Department
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. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare tea

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.