The Emergency Education Center at UW Health offers a wide variety of classes to professionals seeking additional training and certification.

 

Learn more about our courses through the descriptions below:

 

 

 

CATN II offers education to the next level in trauma nursing. The course goals are to strengthen the crucial decision-making skills and optimally impact the outcome of your critically-injured and ill patients. CATN II uses case studies to help discern commonalities among clinical problems, determine priorities of care and establish criteria to evaluate ongoing clinical conditions.

 

The Emergency Nursing Pediatric course is designed to provide core-level pediatric knowledge and psychomotor skills needed to care for pediatric patients in the emergency setting. The course presents a systematic assessment model, integrates the associated anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, and identifies appropriate interventions. Triage categorization and prevention strategies are included in the course content.

 

The Trauma Nursing Core provider course is designed to provide the learner with cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills. Nurses with limited emergency nursing clinical experience, who work in a hospital with limited access to trauma patients, or who need greater time at the psychomotor skill stations are encouraged to attend courses scheduled for the 20-hour format. The TNCC instructor course is an 8-hour course designed to prepare nurses to become TNCC provider instructors. The nurse must have successfully completed the provider course prior to attending the instructor course.

 

The GEMS course is designed to address all the special needs of the older population, including the geriatric objectives as identified in the EMT-Basic, Intermediate, and Paramedic National Highway Traffic Safety Administration National Standard Curricula.

 

The Pediatric Education for Pre-hospital Professionals course represents a complete source of pre-hospital medical information for the emergent care of infants and children. Developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, PEPP's curriculum is designed specifically to teach pre-hospital professionals how to better access and manage ill or injured children.