Trauma Services, Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana.
J Trauma Nurs. 2023;30(4):235-241. doi: 10.1097/JTN.0000000000000734.
The American College of Surgeons and state regulations mandate that trauma facilities offer trauma-specific continuing education throughout the region they serve. These requirements come with unique challenges when serving a rural and sparsely populated state. A novel approach to providing education was necessitated by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, travel distance, and limited local specialists.
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a virtual educational program used to improve access to quality trauma education and decrease barriers to obtaining continuing education hours inherent in the region.
This article describes the development and implementation of the Virtual Trauma Education program, which provided one free continuing education hour per month from October 2020 to October 2021. The program reached more than 2,000 viewers and established a method to provide continuous monthly educational offerings throughout the region.
After the Virtual Trauma Education program implementation, monthly educational attendance increased from an average of 55 to 190. Viewership data indicate that trauma education across our region is far more robust, available, and accessible using a virtual platform. With more than 2,000 views from October 2020 to October 2021, Virtual Trauma Education offerings have spread far beyond regional borders, reaching 25 states and 169 communities.
Virtual Trauma Education delivers easily accessible trauma education and is a program that has proven its sustainability.
美国外科医师学院和州法规要求创伤机构在其服务的区域内提供创伤专科继续教育。在服务一个农村和人口稀少的州时，这些要求带来了独特的挑战。由于 2019 冠状病毒病大流行、旅行距离和当地专家有限，需要采用一种新的方法来提供教育。
本文旨在描述一个虚拟教育计划的开发，该计划用于改善获得高质量创伤教育的机会，并减少该地区继续教育固有障碍。
本文介绍了虚拟创伤教育计划的开发和实施情况，该计划在 2020 年 10 月至 2021 年 10 月期间每月提供一个免费的继续教育小时数。该计划吸引了超过 2000 名观众，并建立了一种在该地区提供持续每月教育的方法。
实施虚拟创伤教育计划后，每月的教育参与人数从平均 55 人增加到 190 人。收视率数据表明，通过虚拟平台，我们地区的创伤教育更加健全、可用和普及。自 2020 年 10 月至 2021 年 10 月，虚拟创伤教育课程的浏览量超过 2000 次，已经远远超出了地区范围，覆盖了 25 个州和 169 个社区。
虚拟创伤教育提供了易于获取的创伤教育，并且是一个已经证明其可持续性的计划。
