Developmental Considerations
THIS type of unintentional injury is the leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults.
What are MVC's (motor vehicle crashes)?
Nurses support injury and violence prevention not only through direct care but also by engaging in this type of policy-influencing activity to create broader community impact.
What is advocacy?
Secondary prevention program/initiative in the event of a fire.
What is Stop, Drop, and Roll?
THIS prevention focuses on strategies to prevent violence before it occurs in communities, such as conducting workshops on anger management and peaceful conflict resolution.
What is primary prevention?
Refugees, migrants, indigenous peoples, prisoners, LGBTQ+ persons
What are groups of people at increased risk of suicide or self-harm?
Drowning, as an unintentional injury, occurs the most in THIS age group.
What are toddlers (1-3 years) and preschoolers (4 years)?
This approach in public health focuses on preventing problems at their source, rather than just responding to them after they occur.
What is the upstream approach?
Swim lessons, wearing a helmet and monitoring the max temperature on a water heater are examples of THIS prevention.
What is primary prevention for unintentional injuries?
Promoting youth development, promoting social connectedness, and quality early education programs
What are strategies to decrease youth violence in communities?
It is a priority to assess for THIS type of violence when an unmarried, uninsured, low-income patient expresses feelings of fear, intimidation, and physical violence from their partner.
What is intimate partner violence
THIS and THIS age group are at the greatest risk of unintentional falls.
Who are children and older adults?
Whether working in trauma centers, community health, or public policy, nurses play this key role in preventing injury and violence across the lifespan.
What is being a frontline responder and public health leader?
Proper use and labeling, not sharing, proper storage and proper disposal of medication and other chemicals
What are prevention methods against unintentional poisoning?
Norms supporting gender equity, economic opportunities, job opportunities
What are protective community traits for community violence?
DOVE tool: evidence-based screening tool to identify women at risk for perinatal IPV and implement interventions during perinatal home visits
What is secondary prevention of IPV?
Increased curiosity, tendency to put things in mouth, limited understanding of danger
What are reasons young children are at risk for unintentional poisoning?
This organization includes injury prevention in its mission and supported trauma nurses in implementing community car seat fitting programs.
What is the Society of Trauma Nurses?
THIS, THIS, and THIS are behavioral risk factors related to motor vehicle crashes.
What are alcohol-impaired driving, distracted driving, and excessive speed?
Exposure to community violence is often associated with this psychiatric sequelae.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
Special needs, chronic health conditions, children younger than 4 years, economic hardship, caregiver joblessness
What are risk factors of child maltreatment?
Increased risk of falls and substance use are especially concerning in THIS population.
Who are older adults?
These two national nursing organizations partnered with physicians to speak out against workplace violence affecting health care workers.
What are the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Emergency Nurses Association?
Improve roads, installing traffic lights, installing pedestrian walkway signs, coordinate traffic lights to turn red with police/firefighter sirens
What are prevention strategies to decrease environmental risk factors and motor vehicle collisions?
Racism, discrimination, prisoner reentry, economically depressed and disorganize communities
What are risk factors of community violence?
Strict gun laws, increased social connectedness, access to mental health resources
What are prevention methods against self-directed harm?