Injury Prevention Priority Scoring: Using Data to Focus on What Matters Most
Originally aired: February 19, 2026
Injury prevention professionals are often faced with more priorities than time, resources, or funding allow. This webinar introduces the Injury Prevention Priority Scoring (IPPS) system, a practical tool designed to help programs make informed, data-driven decisions about where to focus their efforts.
Participants will learn how the IPPS... Details
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Original Broadcast: March 31, 2026
Learn how to align your message with personality styles, apply emotional intelligence in real time, and build authentic buy-in that drives action. This session explores practical personality assessment tools and teaches you how to tailor your communication so teams don’t just hear you, they engage, commit, and execute.
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Audra Roulet-Whaitiri, MLS, BSN, RN, is a Honolulu based trauma systems leader with ... Details
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EXTERNAL CAUSE CODING OF RECREATIONAL BOATING INJURY: THE HOWS AND THE WHYS!
Gear up for National Safe Boating week on May 17-23, 2026!
Please join our expert team, Jane McCormack and Hayle Boyle, as they help increase our understanding of external cause coding for boating traumas!
Injury prevention and trauma programs rely heavily on registry data to identify... Details
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Advanced Practice Providers in Trauma: Not Always Interchangeable
Aired on April 30, 2026
This webinar will explore the key differences in education, training, and clinical roles of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants working in trauma care. Discussion will include practice across multiple settings such as prehospital care, emergency departments, operating rooms, intensive care units, and inpatient units.
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Aired June 4, 2026
This webinar will review the appropriate identification and coding of various trauma-related interventions surrounding lines & drains and their impact on trauma registry data quality and reporting.
Dr. Blickenstaff and Amanda Truelove will discuss common documentation and coding challenges, provide a reference table of codes for specific line and drain types, and highlight how inaccurate assignment may affect ACS TQIP outcomes and... Details
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With the battle against COVID-19 actively underway, social distancing principles apply to all of the ways by which staff at trauma centers do their jobs. The same applies to Injury and Violence (IVP) Prevention programs, which are typically include classroom interaction and "hands on" practical sessions. Like all other members of the healthcare teams at our trauma centers, our IVP teams are being called on to make decisions about what key programs they can continue to provide and how ... Details
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On April 10, 2018, the American Trauma Society hosted an Educational Webinar - "Anatomy & Physiology of the Pelvis & Spine." The webinar covers a general overview of anatomy & physiology of the pelvis & spine with information geared towards trauma registry professionals. This course is perfect for a new trauma registrar to provide them with the foundation needed for understanding and coding common injuries to the pelvis & spine. It is presented by Constance Hymas, RNC-NIC, MN, MSHS.... Details
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The American Trauma Society presented a Trauma Program Management Webinar on August 4, 2022
"Understanding and Measuring Over and Under Triage."
The goal of properly triaging a patient is to ensure that the most critically injured have the highest level of trauma team activation and bring the right resources to the patient in a timely manner. This is measured by Injury Severity Score (retrospective) and level of hospital activation. The Cribari Matrix and the... Details
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The American Trauma Society presents an Injury Prevention Webinar on Sept. 7, 2022 - "Not Just a Statistic: The Importance of Addressing Suicide in the Trauma Population."
Injury survivors are at an increased risk of suicide, making this an important consideration and topic of conversation in the comprehensive care of trauma patients. Other relevant risk factors for suicide in the trauma population include brain injury, neurologic disorders, advanced age, and substance... Details
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Join the ATS, Amanda L. Truelove, RHIA, CSTR, and Haley Bolyard, CSTR, CAISS for a Trauma Registry Webinar - "Inter-Rater Reliability without Drama." Consistency of data collection between registrars is enhanced by regularly conducting inter-rater reliability reviews. Actually doing IRR successfully can challenge any trauma center. Good IRR is not punitive, but educational. Good IRR can be of great benefit to all members of the registry team. Join us for a discussion focusing on the... Details
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The American Trauma Society presents an Injury Prevention Professional Webinar
October 21, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern
"Trauma-Informed Safety Planning with Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault"
Abuse can occur in numerous forms, including physical, sexual, psychological, technological, or financial. A safety plan, likewise, can look very different from one survivor of abuse to the next.
Monica Diaz and Irene... Details
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Join the American Trauma Society for our session - "Gray Book Injury Prevention Webinar Series: Target at Risk Populations."
This webinar seeks to identify, understand, and target efforts toward at-risk populations while being sensitive to generational differences, as well as cultural, religious, and other established customs. This session also discusses how Injury Prevention Programs can engage target populations as a key stakeholder in development, implementation, and ... Details
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The American Trauma Society presents an Injury Prevention Webinar on Oct. 5, 2022.
"Gray Book Injury Prevention Webinar Series: Maximizing the Trauma Registry and Other Data Sets for Injury Prevention Programming."
Join the ATS and Sandy Arabian for a discussion to review the purpose of the trauma registry, the ACS requirements for data driven IP programs, and data elements that are in the registry that an injury and violence prevention (IVP) professional can... Details
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When providing care to the community as a trauma center, it is important resources are utilized appropriately.
For this reason, the Rapid Trauma Evaluation (RTE) was developed as a nurse-driven trauma evaluation process for EMS patients that did not initially meet trauma criteria, but were still at risk for deterioration.
Rapid Trauma Evaluation allows for identification of high-risk patients, streamlined and expedited evaluation and care of patients... Details
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Join the ATS, Amanda Truelove, RHIA, CSTR and Trauma Data Analyst, TQIP Coordinator at St. Louis Children's Hospital, and Lori Beck MSN, RN, CPEN, TNSA Pediatric Center’s, and Trauma Nurse Coordinator at St. Louis Children's Hospital for a Pediatric Center’s review of leveraging data to generate more data to drive the injury prevention program Initiatives for firearm injury and promote gun safety.
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Amanda Truelove, RHIA, CSTR and Trauma Data Analyst, TQIP ... Details
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Overhauling a Trauma System of Care: How We Improved Efficiency, Created Shared Awareness, & Optimized Continuity of Care
What if you could improve patient care—across your city, region, and even state—by streamlining communication and coordination between EMS and hospital teams? Learn how Texas hospital and EMS leaders are doing just that—utilizing new workflows built on a scalable telehealth communication and logistics platform. Since reworking their trauma system,... Details
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Advocating for injury prevention topics can be intimidating until you reframe it as educating law makers. This is a tactic to take the advocacy bull by the horns! Learn from a panel of experts who support advocacy at a variety of levels, local, state, and nationally.
Presented by:
Mary Ann Contreras, RN is the Violence and Injury Prevention Manager at JPS Hospital, a busy Level One Trauma Center in Fort Worth Texas. She has practiced nursing over four... Details
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The American Trauma Society presents a webinar on December 21, 2022 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Home Alone: Coding with Laughter a Holiday Bandit Special
Trauma injury coding is not a joking matter; join as Amanda Truelove, RHIA, CSTR and Trauma Data Analyst, TQIP Coordinator at St. Louis Children's Hospital codes the classic holiday comedy movie Home Alone bandit’s injuries… the scenes will have you laughing while learning some basic coding... Details
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On June 5th, 2018, the American Trauma Society hosted an Educational Webinar
"An Overview of Radiology & Lab Tests for Trauma Registrars"
This webinar will aid trauma registrars in understanding the difference between types of radiological and laboratory studies and the injuries they help diagnose. This session is perfect for a new trauma registrar to provide them with the foundation needed for understanding and coding common radiology and laboratory tests.... Details
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The American Trauma Society presents an Injury Prevention Webinar on December 7, 2022, at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET - "Gray Book Injury Prevention Webinar Series: Reframing Advocacy as Education."
Advocating for injury prevention topics can be intimidating until you reframe it as educating law makers. This is a tactic to take the advocacy bull by the horns! Learn from a panel of experts who support advocacy at a variety of levels, local, state, and... Details
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Trauma Registry Webinar
"Fracture Logic: Making Sense of Fracture Patterns & Flail”
November 3, 2025 at 1:00pm Eastern
Fracture coding got you feeling a little... cracked? You're not alone. From subtle breaks to chaotic chest wall injuries, coding fracture patterns (especially ribs and flail chest) can be a real puzzle. Robin Schrader will lead this lively and informative session. We’ll walk (not limp) through the complexities of fracture coding across... Details
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The American Trauma Society presents a webinar on July 14, 2022 "Gray Book Injury Prevention Webinar Series: Develop a Plan."
Designing an intervention or program can be a difficult process, however, there are strategies, like developing logic models, that can make the process easier. In this presentation, we will be discussing the importance, components, and process of developing logic models for program planning, implementation, evaluation, and strategic reporting.... Details
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The American Trauma Society is pleased to present an Injury Prevention Webinar
"Travel of All Kinds: Passenger Safety Risks Across Diverse Vehicles”
November 12, 2025
From highways to trails and everything in between, passengers face unique risks when traveling in ATVs and UTVs, snowmobiles, RVs, and golf carts. Held in recognition of National Injury Prevention Day, this webinar brings together four experts to explore emerging injury trends, risk factors,... Details
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The American Trauma Society (ATS) and The Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) have come together in the development of the annual National Trauma Awareness Month Webinar Series. An Injury prevention webinar was presented on May 4, 2023 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET - "CarFit in Your Community"
Once again, the American Trauma Society (ATS) and The Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) have come together in the development of the annual National Trauma Awareness Month (NTAM) campaign. With ... Details
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Join the American Trauma Society, with trauma industry experts, for a comprehensive overview of the latest National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) 2026 National Trauma Data Standards (NTDS) data dictionary changes. This session will break down key updates, highlight implications for trauma centers and registries, and provide practical strategies for adapting workflows to ensure compliance, data accuracy, and performance improvement.
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1. Understand Key... Details
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