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Trauma Nursing Process - TNP - TNCC 9th Ed Questions and Answer | Latest Update 2024/2025

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What should you ask yourself after completing all of your interventions and reassessments? ~~> Does this patient need to be transferred to another hospital, to surgery, or to critical care? What happens prior to patient arrival? 1-3 ~~> 1. Activate trauma team 2. Prepare trauma room...

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Trauma Nursing Process - TNP -
TNCC 9th Ed Questions and Answer
| Latest Update 2024/2025
What should you ask yourself after completing all of your interventions and

reassessments?


✓ ~~> Does this patient need to be transferred to another hospital, to

surgery, or to critical care?




What happens prior to patient arrival? 1-3


✓ ~~> 1. Activate trauma team

2. Prepare trauma room


3. Don PPE




What happens following patient arrival but before a decision to intubate has

been made? 4-8




may change based on C-ABC


✓ ~~> 4. Assess for obvious uncontrolled external hemorrhage or

unresponsiveness/apnea and the need to reprioritize to C-ABC

5**. Assess level of consciousness using AVPU


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6. Open the airway


7**. Assess the patency and protection of the airway


8**. Assess breathing effectiveness




Continue the TNP assuming the patient was intubated. 9-11


✓ ~~> 9**. If intubated, assess endotracheal tube placement

10. If intubated, assess ETT position and securement


11. If intubated, state the need to begin mechanical ventilation or continue

assisted ventilation




Continue the TNP following assessments of ETT. 12-15


**12, 13, and 15 are double-starred


✓ ~~> 12**. Assess circulation

13**. Assess neurologic status using GCS


14. Assess pupils


15**. Remove all clothing AND inspect for obvious abnormalities or injuries




Continue the TNP following assessments of circulation, neuro status, and

removal of clothing to inspect for injury. 16-18



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✓ ~~> 16. Provide warmth

17. Obtain a full set of vital signs and weight in kilograms (if not determined

earlier)


18. Facilitate family presence




Continue the TNP using the LMNOP mnemonic. 19-23


✓ ~~> 19. L - trauma panel labs

20. M - monitor (Cardiac, consider EKG)


21. N - consider need for NG/OG


22. O - assess O2 and end-tidal capnography


23**. P - assess pain using appropriate pain scale




Continue TNP after LMNOP (so after pain has been assessed). 24-26


✓ ~~> 24. Non-pharmacological comfort measures

25. Consider analgesic med order


26. Obtain pertinent history




Head-to-Toe 27-43




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