TNCC Questions With Correct Answers

What roles are vital to a trauma team? - ANSWER--The patient -The team leader -Core team -Contigency and support services What are the characteristics of an effective team? - ANSWER-- 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? - ANSWER- What tools can be used to promote communication within a team structure? What are the benefits of each? - ANSWER-- 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