Since much less has been written regarding the incidence of injuries, the associated risk factors and consequences, and the impact of injury prevention programs for pediatric patients more research is needed. Children present a unique challenge in injury care because they are so different from adults, anatomically, developmentally, physiologically and emotionally. Health care providers can do their best to prevent a pediatric patient from injury but that is not all. Education and standards are major factors, the lack of education and lack of standardized treatment for the pediatric population is detrimental to their health and injuries will only continue to occur. In 2012, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention. It is an agenda to prevent injuries and promote the safety of children and adolescents in the Unites States. According to the CDC, "Every day in the United States, two dozen children die from an injury that was not intended". Injury deaths are only part of the picture. Each year, millions of children in the United States are injured and live with the consequences of those injuries. These children may face disability and chronic pain that limit their ability to perform age-appropriate everyday activities over their lifetime. Child injury prevention is achievable. Although the United States has seen declines in many injury causes over the past twenty-five years, more progress is needed.
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... is a Level III, a controlled trial without randomization. Since the schools and children in this study were conveniently selected from a metropolitan city, there is possibility for selection bias and can reduce accuracy of the results.
Educating children when they are young can decrease their risk for injuries reported in adulthood. With education and age appropriate interventions nurses can help children prevent injuries and become more knowledgeable about their health. Many diseases and injuries occur at a later age in life when our bodies are not functioning as they use to. Teaching children ways of taking care of themselves and preventing injuries increases their self-efficacy. Instilling good self care behaviors will be with the patient as they grow and can decrease their risk for injury because they were taught the risk verses benefits when they were younger.
Duff, John F. Youth Sports Injuries. A Medical Handbook for Parents and Coaches. New York: MacMillan, 1992. (pp.
Throughout Rajiv Joseph’s play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, the two characters, Doug and Kayleen, sporadically meet throughout the course of 30 years due to injuries ranging from getting “beaten up pretty badly” (Joseph 31) to going into a “coma” (Joseph 27). The play starts out with the two characters first meeting in the school nurse’s office with injuries of their own. This is the start of a relationship that is full of pain and healing throughout the years. Told in a very unique structure of five year increments, the play shows how injuries, a reoccurring image that may be self-inflicted or inflicted upon one, bring the pair together when either is in a dire situation.
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Parents usually start to worry about serious injuries around the time that their child enters high school, or even middle school
The article cites very little of the actual facts of the study making the claims harder to accept and more susceptible to critique. The study itself seems to have overlooked some added external effects and made some assumptions critical to the issue. One factor discussed in class is the size of the study and the people comprising the study. The study size is a decent study size of 37,000. However, the study does not specify some serious factors, such as family size, the structure of the family, the age of the participants and how long the study followed children.
There are many types of trauma that people experience everyday in our world. People can do awful things to each other, including violence, abuse, and neglect. Accidents happen that leave us feeling distressed. Some threaten our sense of safety and connection. These are all experiences that take time to heal and recover from. We must find a way to reconcile the life we had before it happened and the life as we know it after a tragic event. The pain of the memories alone can be devastating. It takes time and support to find a sense of self again, to feel safe in the world again. But what if the trauma happened before life ever really began? Is there any lasting effect on a person that was merely an infant when the trauma was experienced? The research is growing on this topic and it reveals that there can definitely be some significant effects from infant trauma.
Because nurses are the largest group of healthcare providers, they are in the best position to improve patient safety and quality of care. While teaching and preparing students to become nurses, nurse educators have a very important role in helping to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of upcoming nurses related to patient safety. Healthcare professionals, such as nurses, are highly skilled and well educated, but the healthcare system continues to be disrupted by quality and safety issues.
Because of that, a child may become injured early on. “There is high as 50% chance to repeat an incident that has already occurred” (Stevens, n.d). That means, repeated injuries are very common and can most likely happen again. People might wonder, “Why can’t doctors just released information about an athlete's injuries; therefore, companies could make better-protected helmets.” Unfortunately, doctors can not release any information about an athlete’s injury because of HIPAA. HIPAA prevents doctors from expressing crucial information to companies for making a better-designed helmet. Critics argue that it’s good for doctors not releasing information about an athlete getting injured. While that may be true, still these injuries are going to continue happening. If we don’t release information where the most common injury spot is, how are sports companies supposed to design a better-protected helmet. Ridell, a company designed for creating helmets stated, “We wish we had more information; creating a product and making money is one thing, but protected our children is another.” Many companies such as Ridell are struggling to make a better-protected helmet because of
It prepares a novice to be able to perform basic skills throughout their career. Learning is related in the classroom by simulation labs and clinical instructors. Educators consider nursing education to be serious. Their role in preparing nursing students is to convey safe practice for patients. They focus on educating students to learn the knowledge of essential care for different patients. New graduates who learn the sufficient knowledge and skills will be able to understand aspects to protect and design for the nurse and patient. Students are taught to recognize safety threats and will understand the significance of reporting errors for future prevention.
The goal of my learning plan for this semester is to develop skills in health education specific to adolescents. I chose this as my learning goal because my placement this semester at Sunnybrook Hospital, Injury Prevention Program, gives me an opportunity to provide health education to high school students every Tuesday at out P.A.R.T.Y. Program so I thought I should use this opportunity to develop my and improve my nursing skills in this area. As well as good health education skills to adolescents can benefit the students by proving them a motivating learning environment and better learning outcomes. I hope they can enjoy my teaching and absorb the information and use them in the future. I have considered many factors in the process of developing my learning plan such as the nursing standards of health promotion, prevention and health protection, professional relationships, capacity building etc… I brainstormed possible topics such as possible topics that are related to injury prevention itself for example, concussion prevention or preventing sports related injuries. I also thought about doing topics that are relevant specifically to the P.A.R.T.Y. Program such as teenage suicide and prevention or distracted driving. After assessing my placement and the clients which in this case are the students, I have recognized that one of the program’s goals is to educate the students about injuries and injury prevention. I also found that our clients had a lot of potential in learning about this subject which can greatly benefit their lives and influence change in their behaviour to increase control of their own health and make better choices. In terms of my personal needs, I felt that I had room for improvement in terms of my le...
Paddock, Catharine. "Young Athletes: Injuries And Prevention." Medical News Today. MediLexicon International Ltd, 9 Aug. 2012. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
One of the factors that influence a victim’s ability to cope is the degree of the threat to life and depth of physical injury incurred during the crime (Cook, David & Grant, 1999). A victim would have a more difficult time adjusting to life and coping after a crime when the possibility of death was eminent. Here, the level of trauma would be immense when they narrowly escape death. The same applies when there is a lot of physical injury. The rationale for this is that one would be reminded of what happened all the time, which makes it harder for them to cope.
...rmation to nurses about the patients hands on bodily care using the self in relationship to the patient and teaches how to apply medical knowledge on the patient during the illness period of the patient, which will ultimately help allow nurses to do more than just the basic daily nursing activities and lead to better patient outcome.
Everyday, approximately 8,000 children in U.S are treated in the emergency rooms for fall-related injuries, almost 2.8 million children each year [2] . In Pakistan, a research was conducted about childhood injuries at The Agha Khan University Hospital and found that fall related injuries were the most common type of injury (44.5%). Injuries in children up to the age of 5, was head and face the most common, while in older children, extremities were more frequently involved [3] . Eighty-seven patients (6.2%) were admitted to the hospital, and six patients died (0.42%) [3] .
More than 38 million children and adolescents participate in organized sports in the United States each year. The most sports related injuries in kids are scrapes and bruises, brain and spinal injuries, teeth, ankles, knees, ACL, eyes, pulled muscles, sunburn and broken bones.... ... middle of paper ... ...