Provider Education

All course dates are subject to change due to COVID restrictions and recommended precautions.

Educational Classes adapted to your facility’s needs, i.e., chest tube, central line insertion, etc.

Contact: emily.parker@erlanger.org or call 423-778-6705

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
Contact: emily.parker@erlanger.org or call 423-778-6705

ATLS: For doctors who infrequently treat trauma, the ATLS course provides an easy-to-remember method for evaluating and treating the victim of a traumatic event. For doctors who treat traumatic disease on a frequent basis, the ATLS course provides a scaffold for evaluation, treatment, education, and quality assurance. In short, ATLS is a measurable, reproducible, and comprehensive system of trauma care. Students are expected to read the ATLS Manual prior to the class.*

Each student course is limited to 24 providers. 

ATLS Refresher Course: Erlanger Trauma Services offers an ATLS Refresher Course in conjunction with the two-day ATLS student courses. This course provides doctors with current ATLS certification the ability to maintain their certification status. Erlanger Trauma Services highly encourages physicians who take the ATLS Refresher Course to be experienced in the frequent provision of trauma care as class content includes review of Core Changes in ATLS Content, with Skills Stations & Scenario Review only prior to testing. Students are expected to read the ATLS Manual prior to the class.

Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN)
Contact: jana.poulson@erlanger.org or tabitha.mills@erlanger.org (call 423-778-6742)

ATCN: The ATCN course is offered in conjunction with the ATLS program for physicians. This two day course is recommended for nurses with at least 18 months of trauma experience. Nurses attend components of the ATLS program with physicians and participate in interactive skill stations including initial assessment, head trauma, hemorrhagic shock, and pediatric trauma.  The stations emphasize a systematic, collaborative approach to the initial management of trauma patients.

Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
Every second counts when stabilizing life-threatening trauma cases. This course, taught by qualified nurses, prepares you with the knowledge, critical thinking skills and 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.

To register call 423-778-8390 or contact: Adrienne Chamberland: adrienne.chamberland@erlanger.org or Courtney Gross: courtney.gross@erlanger.org

All classes held at Erlanger Baroness Hospital except as noted.

Rural Trauma Team Development Course
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.

To schedule this course at your facility, contact Regena Young at 423-778-5620 or regena.young@erlanger.org

Erlanger’s Trauma Symposium
May 30th-31st, 2024 

Stop the Bleed – Bleeding Control Classes
Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign to educate first responders and the general public on how to stop severe bleeding and potentially save lives in an emergency. Erlanger Health System provides these classes free to the public. If you would like to request a course be provided for your church, business, school, or community group please submit a request. 

SUBMIT YOUR REQUEST