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title: "Does More Mean Better? Rethinking Trauma Activation Criteria"
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url: "https://www.traumanurses.org/education/archived-webinars/item/does-more-mean-better-rethinking-trauma-activation-criteria"
date: "2026-06-24T19:39:19+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Does More Mean Better? Rethinking Trauma Activation Criteria

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**Presentation Date:** 06/17/2026

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This webinar will review key considerations for developing, evaluating, and refining trauma activation criteria to support timely team mobilization, appropriate resource utilization, and alignment with trauma center standards. The session will explore factors that influence over- and under-triage, the role of guideline-based criteria, and opportunities to improve consistency across trauma systems.

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**Speaker:**

Nina Yoes Wilson, MSN, RN, is a Field Research Coordinator with the Center for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at HCA Healthcare in Nashville, Tennessee, where she has worked since 2019. She has 16 years of emergency department experience and earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Western Governors University in 2014. A U.S. Navy veteran, Ms. Wilson served as Search and Rescue Helicopter Aircrew where she received training as a paramedic. She is a member of the Society of Trauma Nurses Research Committee and is a contributing author on more than 15 published articles. Her professional interests include emergency department resuscitation, prehospital emergency care, and implementation science.

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