CLC Hosts Transport Nurse Advanced Trauma Course
The VCU School of Nursing hosted a Transport Nurse Advanced Trauma Course in the Clinical Learning Center over the weekend. The three-day course, coordinated by Jay Lovelady, RN, of VCU LifeEvac, covered various types of trauma, transport considerations, medical-legal issues, as well as skills labs on chest tube insertion, needle decompression, surgical airways and pericardiocentesis. This was the second time VCU LifeEvac has held the course in conjunction with the School of Nursing.
Attendees came from Washington, Texas, New Jersey, Georgia, Virginia, Iowa, and Tennessee. Among the students were nine active duty U.S. Army registered nurses preparing for deployment to Afghanistan. There were also four LifeEvac nurses in attendance.
The Transport Nurse Advanced Trauma Course, a program of the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association, is held approximately 30 times a year in various locations across the country.
