ENA imposes specific criteria to take the TNCC or the ENPC Instructor Course. Please read below the steps to becoming a TNCC Instructor

Step 1: To take this course, you MUST have been recommended by the course director from your TNCC (or ENPC) provider course as having instructor potential. The course director will need to complete an instructor potential form or have flagged you as having instructor potential on the ENA's Course Management System. Please do not register for the instructor course without first having the instructor's potential form OR knowing you were flagged for instructor potential during your provider course. To check if you were flagged, you can log in to your enau.ena.org account and review your course record(s).

Step 2: Agree with a course director to mentor you through the instructor process. This person will enroll you in their course, complete your monitoring paperwork and assist you with completing the steps to become an instructor. It is also possible to work with more than one-course director to accelerate this process. Our center is offering mentorships if needed.

Step 3: Additionally, upon enrollment in the instructor course, you will take the online TNCC (or ENPC) instructor course modules via the ENA's website (enau.ena.org). After registering via our website, the Instructor Course Modules link will be issued to you. The email will come from ENA.org; this email can take 24-48 business hours to issue (and may often go to junk/spam).

Step 4: 28 days BEFORE the instructor course, you will need to arrange to test your TNP (Trauma Nursing Process) or PNP (Pediatric Nursing Process) psychomotor skills station. In many cases, we will do this on the morning of the Instructor course. Moreover, you must score 90% or greater on each test. (Note: The retesting of your TNP or PNP step is omitted if you tested at your provider course with a score of 90% on both the written exam and the PNP/TNP AND the test was within 90 days of your instructor course). Tip: You should prepare for this exam with your course textbook; we also have practice videos on the Learning Management System (LMS), which will be available after registration.

Step 5: Register, attend and participate fully in the TNCC (or ENPC) Instructor course (click below for the button for the schedule). 

Step 6: Work with your TNCC (or ENPC) Course Director to mentor you through the instructor process (see step 2 above). You must complete all the instructor course requirements within one year of attending the instructor course. At the course(s), you will participate as an instructor candidate in a provider course: at a teaching station, a lecture, and testing students for the Nursing Process -- while being mentored and monitored by a course director. Note: it can take more than one provider course to complete each of the teaching activities noted herein.

Please note: taking the instructor course allows you to teach the content at the same provider course; i.e., if you're taking the TNCC Instructor course, you can only teach at a TNCC provider course; similarly, if you're taking an ENPC Instructor course, you can only teach at the ENPC provider course. Becoming an instructor in one discipline doesn't allow you to teach at both courses.

• Length: 1 day; approx. 8 hours total (100% via Zoom)
• Prepare you for TNCC (or ENPC) Instructor status
• CEUs (6) available for RNs
• TNCC: 
  • Must have a current TNCC 8th edition provider card (or have observed a full 8th edition course)
  • Have obtained the current TNCC 8th Edition Textbook.
• ENPC:
  • Must have the current 5th edition provider card
  • Have the current ENPC 5th Edition Textbook.
• An active and unencumbered RN license is required to become a TNCC (or ENPC) Instructor.

The path to becoming an instructor is rewarding and includes learning about different teaching strategies, understanding how people learn, and being familiar with various types of teaching media. Once you complete the ENPC or TNCC instructor program, you can teach the course under a Course Director. 

If you have any questions about this process, please contact Kpenner@emergencyed.ca BEFORE registration.

Agenda:

At your instructor course:

• Competency Validation (pretesting of psychomotor skill station evaluation and validation of electronic examination scores) of Provider Status

• Welcome, Presentation of Disclosures, and Introduction

• *Exercise: Large Group Discussion and Review of Interactive Learning Strategies

• *Exercise: Teaching a Psychomotor Skill Station

• *Exercise: Evaluating a Psychomotor Skill Station

• Next steps in the Instructor Path/Review of the monitoring process

• Course Evaluations

*Topics will be assigned for you to present to the group. At the end of each topic, the group constructively critiques your efforts.