Are ALL Nurses Trauma Informed? Take the Survey

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Although being trauma-informed is an assumed philosophical underpinning within the nursing profession, there is little evidence demonstrating the expanse of such claims in various aspects of nursing knowledge and practice. Furthermore, being trauma informed may seem more relevant to certain specialties, such as psychiatric nursing or critical care. Since nurses may be affected by others' traumatic experiences as well as their own; and may retraumatize patients through their own actions and biases, it is imperative that all nurses are trauma informed (Foli & Thompson, 2019).

Are all nurses trauma informed? What does it really mean to be trauma informed? How do nurses practice trauma informed care? These are some of the questions that this survey will tackle! Please complete the Nurses Trauma Informed Care (TIC) survey to advance nursing science and practice in this area.

TICNurseRecruitFlyer_v2.0.pdf

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

with an attachment that has "nurse recruitment" in it-not going there. Is the really AN approved? 

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mmc51264 said:

with an attachment that has "nurse recruitment" in it-not going there. Is the really AN approved? 

If you open the attachment, it is a flyer describing her study although I agree with you that the document title is poorly worded.

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Admin note: this research study has completed the approval process and is approved to be posted. 

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Thanks for your interest in the Nurses TIC Survey. The survey post has been approved. Clicking the 'survey' link is the easiest way to get to the survey. The flyer filename 'TIC Nurse Recruit' was not intended to be a deterrent from such important research.

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Love it when vague, novel phrases like 'trauma informed' that have no broad  understanding are used as if everyone just takes for granted that everyone knows what they mean. Yeah...not taking the survey....

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offlabel said:

Love it when vague, novel phrases like 'trauma informed' that have no broad  understanding are used as if everyone just takes for granted that everyone knows what they mean. Yeah...not taking the survey....

Trauma informed care is not a "vague, novel phrase."  The concept has been around for decades.

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chare said:

Trauma informed care is not a "vague, novel phrase."  The concept has been around for decades.

Did not know that. Been a nurse for over 30 years and never heard of it despite practicing in pre-hospital, trauma, emergency, critical care, anesthesia for all of it.  It's  like when nurses use words like ECMO, CRRT and inopressor when talking to families expecting them to know what it all means... 

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I've never heard of "trauma informed care"...sounds like something a PhD would know but not the average floor nurse in the trenches or maybe I'm just out of touch.  

I started the survey but ran out of steam...it's way too long.  Sorry.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

I completed the survey and it was a little long. Though there is one question toward the end that cracked me up....where you born on planet earth? You have no idea how tempted I was to answer no, LOL

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

If you work at a safety-net organization, or for an organization that sees a lot of disenfranchised patients, you would be more likely to be familiar with trauma-informed care. As the manager of an HIV clinic that is part of a larger safety-net organization, trauma-informed care is a very important part of what we do. It's even taught at new employee orientation at our facility. 

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I started the survey but ran out of steam...it's way too long.  Sorry.

Same. Sorry, OP. I only got about 25% through it.

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Thanks for your interest in this topic and for completing the survey. From the responses, it's clear that as nurses we do not have a shared understanding of trauma informed care. I hope this survey (albeit it long), will help all nurses engage in the conversation about their experiences of caring for traumatized patients, especially the impact it may have on them.

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