TRAUMA NURSING PROCESS TNP TNCC EXAM
PREPARATION PACK 2026 KEY CONCEPTS
AND REVISION NOTES
◉ After the head-to-toe, the learner should summarize injuries
identified throughout the scenario and ask themselves:
Answer: "What interventions or diagnostics can you anticipate for
this patient?"
◉ Following the completion of head-to-toe assessment in TNP, you
must do what? 44
Answer: 44. Identify at least THREE interventions or diagnostics
these may include the following:
Antibiotics
Consults
Head CT for any alterations in mental status
Imaging (other radiographs, CT, ultrasound, interventional radiology
as indicated)
Law enforcement
Mandatory reporting
Psychosocial support
,Social services
Splinting
Tetanus immunization
Wound care
◉ After identifying potential interventions/diagnostics and
completing your assessments and interventions, you should ask
yourself what?
Answer: "What findings will you continue to reevaluate while the
patient is in your care?"
"Just keep re-evaluating"
◉ Just Keep Reevaluating. 45-48
Answer: 45. Reevaluate vital signs
46. Reevaluate all identified injuries and effectiveness of
interventions
47. Reevaluate primary survey
48. Reevaluate pain
◉ What do you ask yourself after re-evaluations are done? 49-50
Answer: 49. "What is the definitive care for this patient?"
50. Consider need for transfer to a trauma center or admission
, ◉ After all of the assessments, interventions, reassessments, etc. are
done, what is the last thing to ask?
Answer: "Is there anything you would like to add at this time?"
◉ When considering GU and how to monitor urinary output:
Answer: - Assess for contraindications for an indwelling urinary
catheter
- External catheter
- Weighing diapers (pediatrics and adults)
◉ How do you first assess for pelvic instability? Then what do you
do?
Answer: Apply gentle pressure over iliac crests downward and
medially. If iliac crests are stable, then apply gentle pressure on the
symphysis pubis.
◉ T/F: It is appropriate to consider transfer to a higher level of care
before or during the A-E.
Answer: True. Consider this throughout.
◉ What is a systematic process to guide your care of trauma
patients?
Answer: trauma nursing process
PREPARATION PACK 2026 KEY CONCEPTS
AND REVISION NOTES
◉ After the head-to-toe, the learner should summarize injuries
identified throughout the scenario and ask themselves:
Answer: "What interventions or diagnostics can you anticipate for
this patient?"
◉ Following the completion of head-to-toe assessment in TNP, you
must do what? 44
Answer: 44. Identify at least THREE interventions or diagnostics
these may include the following:
Antibiotics
Consults
Head CT for any alterations in mental status
Imaging (other radiographs, CT, ultrasound, interventional radiology
as indicated)
Law enforcement
Mandatory reporting
Psychosocial support
,Social services
Splinting
Tetanus immunization
Wound care
◉ After identifying potential interventions/diagnostics and
completing your assessments and interventions, you should ask
yourself what?
Answer: "What findings will you continue to reevaluate while the
patient is in your care?"
"Just keep re-evaluating"
◉ Just Keep Reevaluating. 45-48
Answer: 45. Reevaluate vital signs
46. Reevaluate all identified injuries and effectiveness of
interventions
47. Reevaluate primary survey
48. Reevaluate pain
◉ What do you ask yourself after re-evaluations are done? 49-50
Answer: 49. "What is the definitive care for this patient?"
50. Consider need for transfer to a trauma center or admission
, ◉ After all of the assessments, interventions, reassessments, etc. are
done, what is the last thing to ask?
Answer: "Is there anything you would like to add at this time?"
◉ When considering GU and how to monitor urinary output:
Answer: - Assess for contraindications for an indwelling urinary
catheter
- External catheter
- Weighing diapers (pediatrics and adults)
◉ How do you first assess for pelvic instability? Then what do you
do?
Answer: Apply gentle pressure over iliac crests downward and
medially. If iliac crests are stable, then apply gentle pressure on the
symphysis pubis.
◉ T/F: It is appropriate to consider transfer to a higher level of care
before or during the A-E.
Answer: True. Consider this throughout.
◉ What is a systematic process to guide your care of trauma
patients?
Answer: trauma nursing process
