Trauma Education

Grady’s Trauma Program is committed to providing healthcare providers with access to world-class trauma education. We offer education to surrounding communities, partnering hospitals, and our employees with the goal of enhancing trauma care across the state and region.

The Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) Provider Course is an eight-hour course designed for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, therapists, firefighters/EMTs, and paramedics. This live, hands-on course is designed to provide the “how-to” of emergency care of the burn patient through the first 24-hour critical time period. Following a series of lectures, case studies are presented for group discussions. An opportunity to work with a simulated burn patient to reinforce the assessment, stabilization, and the American Burn Association transfer criteria to a Burn Center will be provided. Testing consists of a written exam and a practical assessment.

Course Objectives:

• Evaluate a patient with a serious burn
• Define the magnitude and severity of the injury
• Identify and establish priorities of treatment
• Manage the airway and support ventilation
• Initiate and monitor fluid resuscitation
• Apply correct methods of physiological monitoring
• Determine which patients should be transferred to a burn center
• Organize and conduct the inter-hospital transfer of a seriously injured burn patient

For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) is an advanced course designed for registered nurses interested in increasing their knowledge of managing multiple trauma patients.

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• January 8, 2025
• April 9, 2025
• August 20, 2025
• December 10, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

The Advanced Trauma Life Support^® (ATLS) course can teach you a systematic, concise approach to the care of a trauma patient. The program was developed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT).

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• January 23, 2025 – Instructor
• February 7, 2025 – Hybrid
• March 20, 2025 – Hybrid
• April 17, 2025 – Refresher
• September 25, 2025 – Hybrid
• October 16, 2025 – Refresher
• October 30, 2025 – Hybrid

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

Participants in the Basic Endovascular Skills for Trauma (BEST) course* learn endovascular techniques such as resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) to temporize life-threatening hemorrhage. This course is for physicians and advanced providers.

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• February 6, 2025
• May 7, 2025
• August 7, 2025
• November 6, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

The Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course is a two-day class offered by the Emergency Nurses Association. It covers accurately assessing a child with acute illness or injury, which requires special knowledge and skills. This course, taught by qualified nurses, provides the core-level pediatric knowledge and skills needed to properly assess and implement evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for this high-risk patient population.

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• January 16-17, 2025
• March 26-27, 2025
• May 8-9, 2025
• August 14-15, 2025
• October 9-10, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

The FCCS Curriculum is intended to introduce and expand the principles important to the care of critically ill/injured patients to all providers of critical care . As such, this course is designed:

• To better prepare the nurse for the management of the critically ill patient.
• To assist the nurse in dealing with the sudden deterioration of the critically ill patient.
• To support the understanding of all aspects of mechanical ventilation
• To evaluate and communicate concerns regarding oxygenation, electrolyte balance, glucose management and other underlying and potentially life-threatening metabolic conditions
• To provide a support structure for the management of acute and critical cardiac patients
• To develop a deep understanding of the mechanisms of shock
• To evaluate neurologic dysfunction rapidly and effectively

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• April 14-16, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

The Pediatric Trauma Across the Care Continuum (PTACC) course provides education to nurses who care for admitted pediatric trauma patients. The content was designed to close the identified educational gap for this group.

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• June 11, 2025
• August 4, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

Rural trauma has been termed the “neglected disease” of the 21st century. Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC™) has been developed to improve the quality of care in rural communities by developing a timely, organized, and systemic response to the care of the trauma patient. The course emphasizes a team approach to address common problems in the initial assessment and stabilization of the injured. Grady’s trauma education team will travel to your facility to conduct this interdisciplinary course.

Click HERE to request a course.

A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner is a registered nurse who has completed additional education and training to provide comprehensive health care to survivors of sexual assault. After completing this 40-hour course, you will be trained, certified, and prepared to conduct forensic exams and care for sexual assault patients.

For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

With three quick actions, anyone can be trained to save a life. The number one cause of preventable death after a traumatic injury is uncontrolled bleeding. That’s why we have certified Grady instructors who can train you on how to Stop The Bleed.

Please email [email protected] if you are interested in Stop The Bleed training.

Every second counts when stabilizing life-threatening trauma cases. This course, taught by qualified Grady nurses, prepares you with the knowledge, critical thinking skills, and hands-on training needed to provide high-quality trauma nursing care. After completing this course, you will be able to properly assess and implement evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for your patients.

2025:  (all courses pending confirmed scheduling)

• January 30-31, 2025
• February 27-28, 2025
• March 20-21, 2025
• April 24-25, 2025
• May 29-30, 2025
• June 19-20, 2025
• June 26-27, 2025
• July 24-25, 2025
• August 28-29, 2025
• September 28-29, 2025
• October 16-17, 2025
• November 20-21, 2025
• December 18-19, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

TNCC Renewal Course:

• March 12, 2025
• August 22, 2025
• November 12, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

TNCC Instructor Course (must be TNCC certified to register):

• February 19, 2025
• September 11, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

The TCRN exam is for nurses practicing across the continuum of trauma care who want to demonstrate their expertise and knowledge in trauma nursing. This one-day course presented by Solheim Enterprises will prepare you to sit for the BCEN TCRN certification.

Upcoming Course:

• January 31, 2025

Click HERE to register online. For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

The TOPIC course is taught to all members of the trauma system team who participate in the ongoing assessment, evaluation, and improvement of trauma care. TOPIC focuses on the ongoing assessment of the continuum of trauma care with a structured review of the process and discussions of strategies to monitor trauma patient outcomes.

For information on additional dates, please email [email protected].

Grady’s Trauma Education team offers courses to train caretakers at all levels, from support staff to nursing and advanced practice providers, and physicians, and the general public. Courses can range from single-day training for individual providers to multi-week programs.

For more information about our offerings, please email [email protected].