title: A rewarding teaching experience: taking ATCN to the USNS MERCY (T-AH 19).
abstract: Navy nurses are challenged to maintain trauma competency between deployment settings. The Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) course provides trauma nurse training to Navy nurses. Presenting ATCN in a nontraditional environment aboard a Naval vessel during a training exercise provided a rewarding teaching and learning experience.
authors.affiliation: Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA.
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Pelton
authors.forename: Noelle
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Griffith
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education*; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000193:education*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011786:Quality Control; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*