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Forward2025 Rural Trauma Team Development Course
Overview
The rural trauma team development course has been designed to improve the quality of care in rural communities by developing a timely, organized, and systemic response to the care of the trauma patient. This course emphasizes a team approach to address common problems in the initial assessment and stabilization of the injured.
This course requires pre-registration.
TO ENROLL in this course, you must contact jennifer.gold@baystatehealth.org
Target Audience
All staff who touch and take care of a traumatically injured patient in the resuscitation phase of treatment.
Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1|Organize a rural trauma team with defined roles and responsibilities for the members
2|Assess and resuscitate a trauma patient, rapidly identifying and treating life-threatening injuries
3|Initiate the transfer process early and avoid delays in definitive care
4|Communicate effectively within the team and between facilities
5|Establish a performance improvement process
Faculty
Faculty
Jennifer Gold, BSN, RN, TCRN
Trauma Education Coordinator
Baystate Medical Center
Tyler Putnam, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate
Physician
Baystate Medical Center
Individual | Individual's Role in Activity | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Gold, BSN, RN | Planner, Instructor | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Aiden Tyler Putnam, MD | Planner, Instructor | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
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
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 team.
Physicians
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.0 contact hour(s). Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 8.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.