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Education

The Duke Trauma Center offers unique educational opportunities to clinical staff throughout the year at minimal or no cost. Many of the courses can be brought to your facility.

Courses include training in:

Trauma Outreach
Trauma Education
Trauma Stabilization
PHTLS
Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC)
Course in Advanced Trauma Nursing (CATN)

See below for details. Contact Claudia McCormick at 684-2370 for more information.

Trauma Educational Offerings

Many of these courses can be brought to RAC member facilities for minimum cost.

Abdominal Trauma (1-1.5 Hours)
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)(2 Days)
Concepts in Trauma Nursing (1 Hour)
Course in Advanced Trauma Nursing (CATN) (2 Days)
Elderly and Trauma (1-1.5 Hours)
Face and Eye Injuries (1-1.5 Hours)
Genitourinary Injuries (1-1.5 Hours)
Head Injury (1-1.5 Hours)
Hot and Cold Injuries (1-1.5 Hours)
Mechanism of Injury (1-1.5 Hours)
Musculoskeletal Injuries (1-1.5 Hours)
Pediatric Trauma (1-1.5 Hours)
Pregnancy and Trauma (1-1.5 Hours)
Spinal Cord Injury (1-1.5 Hours)
Thoracic Trauma (1-1.5 Hours)
Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) (16-20 Hours)
Trauma Stabilization (8 Hours)
Traumatic Shock (1-1.5 Hours)

Pediatric Educational Courses

Assessment of the Pediatric Trauma Patient (1.5-2 Hours)
Care of the Peds Trauma Patient Through the Hospital Course (2 Hours)
Child Abuse (1 Hour)
Codes (1 Hour)
Demographics and Injury Prevention (1 Hour)
Neonatal/Pediatric Assessment (1.5-2 Hours)