Activate Trauma Alert by dialing x8888 and saying "I would like to activate a Category II Trauma in the Emergency Department. " (IF PEDIATRIC, SPECIFICY THAT: "PEDIATRIC CATEGORY II TRAUMA in the ED.")

• Write down the time that it is announced overhead. 

You will need to grab a PT sticker for the Trauma Alert Binder

Write Down patient's Arrival Time (Look on facesheet, then "REG DATE" towards the bottom, shows you the time they were registered.)

Maybe Call Trauma Surgeon (only if the doc tells you to call them.)

• If you do have to call the Trauma Surgeon, call their cell phone, don't perfect serve them

  • Click here for the Rolodex

Chart all alert details in Special Charting & Special Comments. 

Once the patient is discharged, you will scan in the Trauma Papers that the nurse fills out. 

• • Once the Nurse's Trauma papers are scanned in by you into the "Emergency Room Record" Section, make a copy of all 3 sheets and put the ORIGINAL in the medical records, and put the COPY in Candi's mailbox.