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Register today in the online store for 2012's valuable certification review courses!

Spartanburg, SC-1/18 & 1/19

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Baltimore, MD- 2/28 & 2/29

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NEW!

Transport Certification Exam

Review Manual

Use this manual to take the stress out of test-taking. This new edition features a section on Preparing for Examination as well as Test Taking Tips. It contains 506 questions with the answers and rationales, allowing you to test yourself in preparation for the CFRN and CTRN exams. Designed as an adjunct to the Core Curriculum (2nd Edition), the TCRM helps to identify areas where further study is needed.

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Updated -01/27/2012
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President's Message

Happy New Year to all!  May 2012 be a prosperous and safe year for all of us.  I’d like to take this opportunity to familiarize you with the current ASTNA Board of Directors and myself.  I have the honor to have succeeded Michael Frakes as the President of ASTNA.  I am hoping that during my year in this role, I can engage more transport nurses to become involved within our national professional organization and to execute a plan to offer more to our members and to have ASTNA continue to be a primary resource for transport nurses in this industry.

Please let me acquaint you with the rest of the ASTNA Board of Directors:

Past President:  Michael Frakes, APRN, CFRN, CCNS, CCRN, EMT-P

President-Elect: Jim Mobley, RN, BSN, CEN, CFRN, CHS, NREMT-P, FP-C

Secretary/Treasurer:  Steven Neher, APRN, MSN, CEN, CFRN, NREMT-P

Board of Director at Large:  Kyle Madigan, RN, CTRN, CEN, CFRN, CCRN

Board of Director at Large:  Greg Wamack, RN, BSN CFRN, EMT-IV

Board of Director at Large:  Ami Brownlee, RNC, BSN, CEN, CFRN

Board of Director at Large:  Allen Wolfe, RN, MSN, CFRN, CCRN

Board of Director at Large:  Sharon Purdom, RN, CFRN, CEN

Board of Director at Large:  Deb Milliner, RN, MSN, FNP

Each of your BOD members has strong talents in many areas of specialty above and beyond that of clinical specialty.  You can find contact information for each of us on this website under About ASTNA then Governance then Board.  We are here for you, so please do not hesitate to contact us with any comments, concerns or questions.

ASTNA is always seeking volunteers to join us in carrying out the mission of our organization.  Currently, we have a call out for the following:

-TNATC Regional Directors

-TNATC Advisory Committee Members

If you are interested in any of the calls, please see the home page of the ASTNA website.  We are only as strong as our volunteers.

So, why join ASTNA?  This is a great question with many great responses:

              -Educational resources

              -Access to mentoring for becoming a flight or ground transport nurse

              -Wings, Wheels & Rotors Newsletter (which you can author an article for)

              -Air Medical Journal subscription

              -Discounts for certification examinations and TNATC & TraCER courses

              -Networking

              -Access to several position papers, which speak on standards of practice

              -Many volunteer opportunities

              -Discount for Air Medical Transport Conference (AMTC)

              -Discount for Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference (CCTMC)

              -Discount for online CEs

              -Being active in the industry of medical transport

              -Having access to the loudest voice within the industry of medical transport

              -Discount on published educational items

              -Opportunity to support your national professional organization that is            specific for medical transport

Thanks very much for what you do everyday.  Please be safe and get involved.

Sandy Correia, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, CFRN, CCRN, CMTE

President

News

April 2nd - 4th, 2012

Nashville, Tennessee

CCTMC registration is available on-line at www.ampa.org

 Click Here for CCTMC Brochure

October 22nd - 24th, 2012

Seattle, Washington

Current Calls

Call for Abstracts

Reed Brozen, MD

Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference – April 2-4, 2012

Nashville, Tennessee

The Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference (CCTMC) will once again feature a Scientific Forum with poster presentations of original scientific research.  Poster presentations will be formally judged during the conference on April 2^nd and an Outstanding Research Award bestowed.  Accepted abstracts will be published in the Air Medical Journal.  Abstracts presented at other meetings during 2011-2012 will be considered.  If abstracts have been published prior they will not be republished in the Air Medical Journal.  Our goal is to nurture and provide an appropriate forum for research in air medical transport.

Deadline: February 17, 2012

5:00 p.m. EST

Abstracts must be sent as E-mail attachment in MS Word format (Macintosh or Windows) without names or institutions listed. Objective, methods, results and conclusion sections should be included, 3200 maximum number of characters allowed (including spaces).  Use single line spacing. Leave one line of space between paragraphs. Left justify all text. Word documents should have 1 inch margins, and text in Times font, 12 point size.  Please use the “word count” feature under “Tools” in Word.   The E-mail cover should list names of participants in the study, institutional affiliations, funding sources, and identify the person who will present the poster at the conference.   In addition, the E-mail cover must state whether or not the abstract has been or will be presented and/or published prior to April 2012.  The reference must be supplied.  Submissions should be sent to Reed.Brozen@dartmouth.edu and must be received by 5:00 p.m. EST on February 17, 2012.

Call for Regional Directors

There are currently openings for Regional Directors in the Southeast Region and the Northeast Region.  The term of these positions will be January 2011 through December 2014, two years as Regional Director and one year as a mentor to their successor. 

Qualifications:

To qualify a candidate must be a TNATC Instructor and Course Coordinator, have experience in organizing or coordinating educational programs, be a member of ASTNA, and be actively involved with a transport program.  He / she must also be able to commit a minimum of three (3) years to the position.  Regional Directors may run an additional term.

Role: 

The Regional Director serves as a resource and quality management person for all TNATCs in his / her region.  The Regional Director may be requested to participate in planning, revising, and developing course material.  The Regional Director provides feedback as requested / necessary regarding the TNATC to the ASTNA National Office and the TNATC Advisory Committee.  The Regional Director is responsible for course budget approval and working with Course Coordinators on meeting budget expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate dates and locations for TNATC within his / her region.

• Communicate information regarding TNATC to all instructors within his / her region, in a timely manner.

• Comply with all TNATC guidelines and CE requirements.

• Attend all courses in his / her region at first-time sites, with first-time Course Coordinators, and / or if quality issues are a concern.

• Ensure monitoring / mentoring of all instructors in his / her region.  Review all annual individual instructor evaluations and report to the Advisory Committee every three (3) years (or more often if issues/concerns arise) using the Instructor Evaluation Form.  These forms will be submitted to the Advisory Committee and ASTNA National Office.  New instructors should be monitored in person at least once within the first two (2) year period.

• Provide evaluation summary and feedback of instructors from other regions to their Regional Director, when utilized for courses in his/her region.

• Maintain cumulative evaluations of instructors in his / her region.

• Monitor / mentor all Course Coordinators within his / her region at least once every 3 years.

• Review the preliminary budgets with Course Coordinators before submission to the National Office.

• Report any unavoidable budget overruns to the Advisory Committee for approval prior to the course.

• Review all post-course documents including post course budgets. 

• Monitor post-course evaluations.

• Maintain current Biographical Data Form and contact information on file with National Office.

• Intervene in issues of course or instructor quality, as necessary, after discussing these issues with the National Office and TNATC Advisory Committee.

• Notify the National Office and TNATC Advisory Committee of his / her intention to resign at least three (3) months prior to resignation date.

To apply contact the ASTNA National Office at astna@gwami.com for an application packet. 

Deadline to apply is Monday, February 13th.

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