New Trauma Nurse Help

TNCC will help a lot, also if you could sit in on an Advanced Trauma Life Support Class (ATLS), that will be helpful. Ask if you can keep your TNCC book and then self study it even after you've passed the course. It'll take time, you can't come in new and expect yourself to operate in the same capacity of someone with 15 years under them. Where I work, we do way more in trauma than charting and blood transfusions.

A lot of good stuff here. A piece of advice that I have heard before is to be the "scribe" during a code. Everyone is supposed to shout their stuff out as things are being done (Epi at 0400, followed by flush, etc). If you are in charge of writing down what is happening, you can more quickly understand the flow of a code. Your ACLS will become more based in reality vs. theory if you have a few codes under your belt where you wrote stuff down. Another piece of advice is to do all parts of a code at least once. It is only scary if you've never done it before. You will probably mess something up at least once, and that's OK because your team will have your back if they're a good team. I don't sweat missing an IV because there are 3 others who are better at IVs than me (and I'm pretty good). It is a journey, and a scary one, but dive in head first and you'll be just fine.