TNCC Trauma Nursing Process Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What is contained in the preparation and triage portion? (3) -
correct answer ✅1. Activate the team and assign roles
2. Prepare the trauma room
May include but not limited to:
-Bariatric equipment
-Difficult airway or IV equipment
-Fluid warmer
-Pediatric equipment
3. Don PPE
-Consider potential safety threats to the team or need for
decontamination
What is contained in the General Impression? -
correct answer ✅Assess for obvious uncontrolled external
hemorrhage or unresponsiveness/apnea and the need to re-
prioritize to C-ABC
When alterations are identified, intervene as appropriate and
reassess.
, TNCC Trauma Nursing Process Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
May include but not limited to the following:
-Assess for a pulse
-Control external hemorrhage
-Initiate chest compressions
-Initiate IV resuscitation for significant blood loss with signs of very
poor perfusion
What do you assess for in the Airway and Alertness portion? (3) -
correct answer ✅SIMULTANEOUS CERVICAL SPINAL
STABILIZATION
1. Assess LOC using AVPU
2. Open the airway
May include but not limited to the following:
-If cervical spinal injury is suspected, state the need for a 2nd
person to provide manual cervical spinal stabilization AND
demonstrate manual opening of the airway using the jaw-thrust
maneuver
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What is contained in the preparation and triage portion? (3) -
correct answer ✅1. Activate the team and assign roles
2. Prepare the trauma room
May include but not limited to:
-Bariatric equipment
-Difficult airway or IV equipment
-Fluid warmer
-Pediatric equipment
3. Don PPE
-Consider potential safety threats to the team or need for
decontamination
What is contained in the General Impression? -
correct answer ✅Assess for obvious uncontrolled external
hemorrhage or unresponsiveness/apnea and the need to re-
prioritize to C-ABC
When alterations are identified, intervene as appropriate and
reassess.
, TNCC Trauma Nursing Process Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
May include but not limited to the following:
-Assess for a pulse
-Control external hemorrhage
-Initiate chest compressions
-Initiate IV resuscitation for significant blood loss with signs of very
poor perfusion
What do you assess for in the Airway and Alertness portion? (3) -
correct answer ✅SIMULTANEOUS CERVICAL SPINAL
STABILIZATION
1. Assess LOC using AVPU
2. Open the airway
May include but not limited to the following:
-If cervical spinal injury is suspected, state the need for a 2nd
person to provide manual cervical spinal stabilization AND
demonstrate manual opening of the airway using the jaw-thrust
maneuver
