a sudden event (such as a crash) that is not planned or intended and that causes damage or injury

an act or event that causes someone to no longer be fully healthy or in good condition (intentional or not)

Accident and injuries

All accidents are injuries not all injuries are accidents.

Developmental Considerations

To understand the type of accident and prevention strategies,nurses need to underst and developmental factors

Infants – causes of death and injury

Unintentional suffocation, homicide, motor vehicle accidents.

Infants and accidents

Infants have the second highest injury rate of all groups of children because small body, small airway, and handled on high surfaces.

due to small size, infants are easily propelled and crushed. Also, their immature motor skills inhibit ability to escape from injury.

Developmental Considerations:Infants

due to small size, infants are easily propelled and crushed. Also, their immature motor skills inhibit ability to escape from injury.

Ages 1-4 Development Factors

inquisitive, logical thinking abilities are immature, and active. Leading cause of death drowning, MVA, homicide.

Development Factors: Peer pressure, active, increases sports and athletic. Leading cause of death: MVA, drowning, fire/burn,suicde by suffoacation (10-14)

Developmental Factors: risk taking, use of weaons, alochol and drugs, suicide,gangs. LEADING CAUSE MVA,homicide (firearm), poisoning, suicide (fireman)

Developmental Factors: stress, alocohol & drugs, high accessibility to cars. Leading Cause: Poisoing, MVA, Suicide (firearms), homicide (firearm)

Developmental Factors

Developmental Factors: Impaired balance, decrease muscle strenght, reaction time, sensory acuity. Leading Cause: Falls, MVA , Suicide (firearm)

Public Health Approach

Surveillance: “ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination”

leads to what is the problem, risk id (what is the cause), intervention (what works?), implementation (how do you do it), outcome measurements.

Examples of effective injury prevention

National highway speed limit, Cycle” helmet laws, Child passenger restraint laws, Apartment window guards, Smoke detectors, Violence/penetrating injury programs

Nursing’s Role (injury)

Support legislative efforts, Collaborate with schools, Initiate community efforts, Support family efforts, Identify populations at risk,Support community efforts

Community-based Programs

Ownership and empowerment,Novel partnerships and coalitions, Community-based data about etiology, Develop & test solutions, interventions, Consensus-based process, Implementation and evaluation

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Accidents & Injury

Question	Answer
Accident	a sudden event (such as a crash) that is not planned or intended and that causes damage or injury
Injury	an act or event that causes someone to no longer be fully healthy or in good condition (intentional or not)
Accident and injuries	All accidents are injuries not all injuries are accidents.
Developmental Considerations	To understand the type of accident and prevention strategies,nurses need to underst and developmental factors
Infants – causes of death and injury	Unintentional suffocation, homicide, motor vehicle accidents.
Infants and accidents	Infants have the second highest injury rate of all groups of children because small body, small airway, and handled on high surfaces.
Infants and MVA	due to small size, infants are easily propelled and crushed. Also, their immature motor skills inhibit ability to escape from injury.
Developmental Considerations:Infants	due to small size, infants are easily propelled and crushed. Also, their immature motor skills inhibit ability to escape from injury.
Ages 1-4 Development Factors	inquisitive, logical thinking abilities are immature, and active. Leading cause of death drowning, MVA, homicide.
Ages 5-14	Development Factors: Peer pressure, active, increases sports and athletic. Leading cause of death: MVA, drowning, fire/burn,suicde by suffoacation (10-14)
Ages 15-24	Developmental Factors: risk taking, use of weaons, alochol and drugs, suicide,gangs. LEADING CAUSE MVA,homicide (firearm), poisoning, suicide (fireman)
Ages 25- 64	Developmental Factors: stress, alocohol & drugs, high accessibility to cars. Leading Cause: Poisoing, MVA, Suicide (firearms), homicide (firearm)
Developmental Factors	Developmental Factors: Impaired balance, decrease muscle strenght, reaction time, sensory acuity. Leading Cause: Falls, MVA , Suicide (firearm)
Public Health Approach	Surveillance: “ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination”
Survellience	leads to what is the problem, risk id (what is the cause), intervention (what works?), implementation (how do you do it), outcome measurements.
Injury primary prevention	eliminate the event
Injury secondary prevention	dimiinish the effect
Injury tertiary Prevention	improve the outcome
Examples of effective injury prevention	National highway speed limit, Cycle” helmet laws, Child passenger restraint laws, Apartment window guards, Smoke detectors, Violence/penetrating injury programs
Nursing’s Role (injury)	Support legislative efforts, Collaborate with schools, Initiate community efforts, Support family efforts, Identify populations at risk,Support community efforts
Community-based Programs	Ownership and empowerment,Novel partnerships and coalitions, Community-based data about etiology, Develop & test solutions, interventions, Consensus-based process, Implementation and evaluation

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