February
18, 2002
Dear
Course Directors,
Hello!
We would like to introduce ourselves. We are the Ohio State Council (OSC)
Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Trauma Committee/TNCC-ENPC. In a way of
getting to know you better and for you to get to know us we want to tell you a
little about ourselves. The Ohio State Council is comprised of Representatives
from each of the ENA Chapters in Ohio. One of the functions of the Council is to
work with issues that confront all emergency nurses across the state. Another
function is to hold educational programs relevant to emergency nurses. Our
charge as the committee on trauma/TNCC-ENPC is to address issues related to
trauma in Ohio.
Our
committee purpose:
1)
Monitor trauma related issues
within the state and communicate with legislators or other state members as to
our role in trauma patient care and how we hope it will be handled. This
includes being a resource and active participant in many state committees.
2)
Communicate with members in Ohio
regarding any trauma issues and gather their feedback.
3)
National ENA has charged us with
monitoring QA issues related to the delivery of the TNCC and ENPC courses that
they have developed. We also can help with dissemination of these courses. We
have tried to keep this QA process as simple as possible. We monitor evaluation
of the individual instructors and the courses that are conducted in Ohio.
Instructors must meet the 3.0 level of evaluation consistently and teach their
required number of courses. We are then charged with helping any instructor who
does not meet these requirements in remediation if necessary, or in improving
their teaching abilities.
We also monitor courses for compliance with National ENA
standards
of delivery.
We may also monitor courses and
4)
We provide an Instructor Course
at a minimum of once a year and on request to help prepare new instructors. We
then complete the evaluation of these instructor candidates by monitoring them
at a regular TNCC provider course.
5)
We can be of assistance in
helping locate courses for those seeking course enrollment. All courses should
be open to at least 1-2 persons outside the institution or ENA membership.
6)
We are a resource when there are
concerns regarding course delivery or questions about how a course should be
taught.
7)
We also can be of assistance in
delivery of information on changes in courses developed by National.
8)
Establish that all Course
Directors are ENA members.
The
Course Directors' responsibilities are:
1)
Identifying potential course
instructors during a provider course. These folks should have some teaching
experience, be involved in care of trauma patients, be committed to teaching at
least two courses or more a year, preferably be involved in their professional
nurses association or in their profession beyond everyday work, be knowledgeable
and personable and meet requirements established by National ENA for Instructor
Potential.
2)
*** Send copies of the
cumulative evaluations or copies of the evaluations of the instructors and
course itself to the State Committee Chair following each Provider Course. This
is our way of monitoring individual instructors/courses.
TNCC - Dee
Hart, R.N., BSN, CEN
e-mail - deehart@raex.com
1859
Steffy Road
Suffield,
Ohio 44260-8825
ENPC - Connie Dishon, MSN, RN, CEN
Center for Nursing Excellence
Education Coordinator
2222 Philadelphia Dr
Dayton, OH 45406-1891
3)
Send concerns regarding
instructors or courses or questions
to the State Trauma Committee.
4)
All Course Directors must be ENA
members.
We
look forward to working more closely with you in the future. If you have
questions or concerns get in touch with us at the above addresses.
Thanks,
Dee
Hart, Nancie Bechtel Co-Chairs.
OHIO
ENA TRAUMA NEWSLETTER
15
February, 2002
Hopefully
by now you have received the letter from National about the additional changes
to TNCC/ENPC applications that were effective February 1, 2002. Thanks to all
who submitted letters and concerns. We, as the State Council Trauma Committee
did not get our letter in on time, but do have some additional concerns that we
are drafting to National. If you have any please let me know ASAP (deehart@raex.com).
Here
are a couple of Helpful hints for all Course Directors:
1.
Students must have books at least 30 days ahead of time. (If National is not sending them to you on time let me know).
If the student signs up for the class after the 30 days (which should be
discouraged), be sure they know that the books were available and would have
reached them before.
2.
In your introductory letter, or data to Dept. Managers, remind the
students that they must come prepared. They will not be able to learn
what we are teaching them in class, they need to be familiar with the data ahead
of time.
3.
Address the issue of “No Shows” also set up a system with your Dept.
Managers if possible and let the students know ahead of time that they must show
up on the day of class because we still must pay $25.00 processing fee if their
name was on the list. Some of the things that we have done (as suggestions):
a. Don’t allow substitutes after the 30 days
b. Assign the people to a work schedule just as if they were scheduled on
the unit,
and if they don’t show it is counted against them, as is being tardy
c. Make the student individually pay the processing fee - or it will
automatically
be deducted from their pay
4.
Warn the students in your introductory letter about environment in the
rooms, they should come prepared for any temperature “Wear layered..”
Hopefully
some of these helpful hints will address issues that come up regarding payment
and evaluation data for those who are new to the development of this program.
For you who are more experienced - if you have other solutions to these
problems, let us know and we can add them to our next newsletter.