TNCC pp5 final exam questions and answers

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TNCC pp5 final exam questions and answers What roles are vital to a trauma team? -The patient -The team leader -Core team -Contigency and support services What are the characteristics of an ef... fective team? - Clear roles and responsibilities - Shared mental model - Optimize resources - Strong team leadership - Engage in regular discipline of feedback - Strong sense of collective trust and confidence - Create mechanisms to cooperate and coordinate - Manage and optimize performance outcomes -Interdependent and adaptive What are key foundations to successful teamwork in the care of the trauma patient? ... What tools can be used to promote communication within a team structure? What are the benefits of each? - Brief: designed to form the team, designate team roles and responsibilities, establish climate and goals, and engage the team in short and long-term planning - Huddle: ideally convened prior to trauma patient's arrival; communicate critical issues and emerging events, anticipate outcomes and likely contingencies, assign resources, express concerns - Debrief: process improvement Define trauma Injury to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent; creates stressors that exceed tissue or organ's ability to compensate Define epidemiology [Show More]

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