Tim Murphy
MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, FAEN, Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey, USATim Murphy has been a Trauma Nurse for over 35 years. All of Tim’s clinical education has been in the field of trauma nursing and he has developed a Basic Trauma Nursing course for nurses targeted at non-emergency nurses.
Tim was invited to join a team of nurses by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in 2006 for an international dissemination of the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC).
This program has been recognized worldwide as the standard for educating nurses about trauma assessment and immediate life-saving interventions.
It promotes teamwork by all trauma care providers, physicians and prehospital providers, while emphasizing the importance of the nurse’s role on the team.
Tim has subsequently been invited to join other TNCC dissemination teams in Western Australia, a return to Abu Dhabi and most recently, to Trinidad and Tobago (TT).
During his trip to TT as team leader, a meeting was held with the President of the TT Registered Nurses Association. This organization was interested in hearing about the program as a model for continuing education in their country.
A total of four courses were held during 11 days in country; two provider and two instructor courses.
The main objective of this international dissemination was to set the country up with a self-sustaining program that maintains a high standard of care. Instructors are also able to establish long term relationships to provide long distance advice when questions arise.
These experiences have been further used as a model to work collaboratively with colleagues at Rutgers University Global Nursing program. The first collaboration was to conduct a trauma nursing and systems curriculum for visiting nurses.
To date, there have been nurses hosted from Kenya, China, Mexico and several South American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay). Tim developed the performance improvement curriculum which was used as a basis to identify student projects that could be implemented at their home institution.
Another program developed is the mini-disaster exercise for student and graduate nurses visiting the United States to learn more about disaster preparedness. These nurses were selected because of their personal experiences with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident following an earthquake and tsunami several years ago.
They are hosted by Johnson and Johnson and the Tomodachi corporations. While many students understand English, interpreters are often required and present interesting challenges.
The goal in each of these programs is to limit stress while providing the student with both didactic and psychomotor skills to enhance their practice. Tim continues, when invited, to share his trauma expertise with the global nursing community.
– Deb
Tim Murphy has been a Trauma Nurse for over 35 years. All of Tim’s clinical education has been in the field of trauma nursing and he has developed a Basic Trauma Nursing course for nurses targeted at non-emergency nurses.
Tim was invited to join a team of nurses by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in 2006 for an international dissemination of the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC). This program has been recognized worldwide as the standard for educating nurses about trauma assessment and immediate life-saving interventions. It promotes teamwork by all trauma care providers, physicians and prehospital providers, while emphasizing the importance of the nurse’s role on the team.
Tim has subsequently been invited to join other TNCC dissemination teams in Western Australia, a return to Abu Dhabi and most recently, to Trinidad and Tobago (TT).
During his trip to TT as team leader, a meeting was held with the President of the TT Registered Nurses Association. This organization was interested in hearing about the program as a model for continuing education in their country.
A total of four courses were held during 11 days in country; two provider and two instructor courses. The main objective of this international dissemination was to set the country up with a self-sustaining program that maintains a high standard of care. Instructors are also able to establish long term relationships to provide long distance advice when questions arise.
These experiences have been further used as a model to work collaboratively with colleagues at Rutgers University Global Nursing program. The first collaboration was to conduct a trauma nursing and systems curriculum for visiting nurses.
To date, there have been nurses hosted from Kenya, China, Mexico and several South American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay). Tim developed the performance improvement curriculum which was used as a basis to identify student projects that could be implemented at their home institution.
Another program developed is the mini-disaster exercise for student and graduate nurses visiting the United States to learn more about disaster preparedness. These nurses were selected because of their personal experiences with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident following an earthquake and tsunami several years ago.
They are hosted by Johnson and Johnson and the Tomodachi corporations. While many students understand English, interpreters are often required and present interesting challenges.
The goal in each of these programs is to limit stress while providing the student with both didactic and psychomotor skills to enhance their practice. Tim continues, when invited, to share his trauma expertise with the global nursing community.
– Deb
