TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
What roles are vital to a trauma team? - (answer)1.
Patient
2. Team leader
3. Core team
4. Contingency and support services
What are the characteristics of an effective team? -
(answer)1. Clear roles and responsibilities
2. Shared mental model
3. Optimize resources
4. Strong team leadership
5. Engage in regular discipline of feedback
6. Strong sense of collective trust and confidence
7. Create mechanisms to cooperate and coordinate
8. Manage and optimize performance outcomes
9. Interdependent and adaptive
,TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
What are the key foundations to successful teamwork
in the care of the trauma patient? - (answer)1.
Communication
2. Cooperation
3. Coordination
What tools can be used to promote communication
within a team member? What are the benefits of
each? - (answer)1. *SBAR:* Situation, Background,
Assessment, Recommendations-To provide a
framework for communication among members of
the healthcare team
2. *DESC:* Describe the specific situation or behavior,
Express your concerns or how the situation makes
you feel, Suggest alternatives and seek agreement,
state Consequences in terms of impact on
,TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
performance goals-Used in conflict management,
paraphrasing the other person's comments is an
important technique that should be done throughout
the DESC support
3. *CUS:* I am Concerned, I am Uncomfortable, This is
a Safety issue/I am Stressed-Used to "stop the line" if
a team member senses or discovers an essential
safety breach
Kinematics - (answer)The study of energy transfer as
it applies to identifying actual or potential injuries
Biomechanics - (answer)The general study of forces
and their effects
Mechanism of Injury - (answer)How external energy
forces in the environment are transferred to the body
, TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
Newton's First Law of Motion - (answer)A body rest
will remain at rest, and a body in motion will stay in
motion
Newton's Second Law of Motion - (answer)Force =
mass x acceleration
Newton's Third Law of Motion - (answer)For every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
Law of Conservation of Energy - (answer)Energy can
neither be created nor destroyed, but can change
form
Describe how Newton's Laws of Motion and the Law
of Conservation affect energy transfer in traumatic
injury, and give an example - (answer)-1st: weight
What roles are vital to a trauma team? - (answer)1.
Patient
2. Team leader
3. Core team
4. Contingency and support services
What are the characteristics of an effective team? -
(answer)1. Clear roles and responsibilities
2. Shared mental model
3. Optimize resources
4. Strong team leadership
5. Engage in regular discipline of feedback
6. Strong sense of collective trust and confidence
7. Create mechanisms to cooperate and coordinate
8. Manage and optimize performance outcomes
9. Interdependent and adaptive
,TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
What are the key foundations to successful teamwork
in the care of the trauma patient? - (answer)1.
Communication
2. Cooperation
3. Coordination
What tools can be used to promote communication
within a team member? What are the benefits of
each? - (answer)1. *SBAR:* Situation, Background,
Assessment, Recommendations-To provide a
framework for communication among members of
the healthcare team
2. *DESC:* Describe the specific situation or behavior,
Express your concerns or how the situation makes
you feel, Suggest alternatives and seek agreement,
state Consequences in terms of impact on
,TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
performance goals-Used in conflict management,
paraphrasing the other person's comments is an
important technique that should be done throughout
the DESC support
3. *CUS:* I am Concerned, I am Uncomfortable, This is
a Safety issue/I am Stressed-Used to "stop the line" if
a team member senses or discovers an essential
safety breach
Kinematics - (answer)The study of energy transfer as
it applies to identifying actual or potential injuries
Biomechanics - (answer)The general study of forces
and their effects
Mechanism of Injury - (answer)How external energy
forces in the environment are transferred to the body
, TNCC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS RANKED A+
Newton's First Law of Motion - (answer)A body rest
will remain at rest, and a body in motion will stay in
motion
Newton's Second Law of Motion - (answer)Force =
mass x acceleration
Newton's Third Law of Motion - (answer)For every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
Law of Conservation of Energy - (answer)Energy can
neither be created nor destroyed, but can change
form
Describe how Newton's Laws of Motion and the Law
of Conservation affect energy transfer in traumatic
injury, and give an example - (answer)-1st: weight
