Injury Prevention

Emergency Nurses CARE

ENA’s Injury Prevention Institute

Iowa Injury Prevention Chairperson: Julie Hensley, RN, BSN: (319)752-0394 or jahensley@aol.com

Mission: The Mission of the Emergency Nurses CARE is to reduce preventable injuries and deaths by educating the public in order to raise awareness and promote healthy lifestyles.

Philosophy: As emergency health care professionals, we have an obligation to educate the public on health and safe lifestyles.

Injury Prevention Institute Logo Iowa ENA Injury Prevention News

Committee members: Julie Hensley, Iowa ENA EIC, Rachel Creamer, Moira Pyle, Kara Greenlee, Angela Mortoza, Pam Boat, Jan Chapman, Marcia Hyke, and Sarah Town(newest member-Welcome!).

ENA Injury Prevention Institute/ EN CARE Provider Training Update:

On April 29, 2008, twenty-one participants took the new Injury Prevention Provider Course offered at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines. Tiffiny Strever, Iowa ENA Board Liaison, Sharon Munns, Minnesota ENA EIC, and Julie Hensley, Iowa ENA EIC were the instructors. Three groups shared injury prevention information for the participants including: Iowa Safe Kids, Poison Control, and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau. Chad Thomas, Iowa THINK First also sent information to hand out.

Pictured (L to R): Julie Hensley, Tiffiny Strever,

Jeri Babb, and Sharon Munns.

Updates on IP programs from ENA

The Safer Medication Use program release date August 2008. The second program in the Healthy Aging Series along with the Stand Strong for Life-falls prevention program replaces the Take Care programs.

	The IP Institute will be releasing a self-study interactive DVD called STOP the Injuries at the end of 2008 or early 2009
	Child Passenger Safety Week is September 21-27,2008

For Injury Prevention information visit the ENA Web site at: http://www.ena.org/ipinstitute/

Watch the Iowa ENA Web site for information about Injury Prevention T-shirts you may order to do programs in the community at www.iowaena.org

If anyone has any pictures from any injury prevention programs you are doing please send them to me so they can be put on the web.

Please contact me for any information about ENA Injury Prevention Programs:

Julie Hensley, Iowa ENA EIC

Email: at jahensley@aol.com or jhensley@grhs.net

Phone: 319/750-0370

L-R. Lisa Roth (Instructor), Michele Alpen(UIHC, Iowa City), Sue Houselog (Mercy, Dubuque), Julie Hensley (Great River Medical Center, W. Burlington), Katrina Altenhofen (Instructor)

Three ENA members pictured in the middle completed their annual CPS Technician Update-Refresher in Davenport, Iowa.

Injury Prevention Programs

Injury Prevention Training Class

This program is designed to prepare healthcare providers to educate the public about alcohol and highway safety issues in order to raise awareness and promote healthy lifestyles.

Jeri Babb (Instructor), taught 13 participants in West Burlington, Iowa.

Back row L-R: Bobbi Ahlen, Linda Cockrell, Julie Werner, Jeri Babb, Sue Klein, Ann Torgler, Melisa Mc Connell, Karlee Webster, Heather Carter;

Front Row L-R: Julie Hensley, Florence Hensley, Erica Michaud, Susan Campbell.(Vicky Oge, not pictured)

The following items have been purchased by Iowa EN CARE and are available to be checked out on loan at no cost (except shipping expenses).

Alcohol Prevention Programs

	Choices for Living Designed to promote safe decison-making amongst teenage drivers to avoid risky behaviors such as speeding, binge drinking, and drinking and driving.
	Alcohol Screening (SBIRT)

Toolkit provides emergency and trauma nurses with information to implement SBIRT procedure in emergency care setting.

Healthy Aging

SAFER Medication Use

Educates health care professionals on in-hospital & community-based approaches to reducing adverse drug events among adults.

Stand Strong for Life

How to prevent falls among older adults in both community and hospital setting.

Safety Education

Child Passenger Safety
Educates nurses to teach child occupant protection to the public and other nurses and to be resources in their community. Both 16 and 32-hour child passenger safety courses are offered. Graduates of the 32-hour course receive NHTSA Certification.

Bicycle Safety

Bike with CARE-Programs and resources to educate children, their parents and caretakers about bicycle safety practices and proper helmet use. Great resources for providing in-school programs and community activities, such as bike rodeos.
Gun Safety
Program is designed to increase public awareness of firearm safety and reduce preventable firearm injuries and fatalities.

Information is presented to the public in a variety of ways: by providing exhibit booths at health fairs at schools and in the community, serving on community/government injury prevention task forces, working with government agencies, other advocacy groups, and presenting programs to audiences ranging from preschool to mature adults. All programs are presented free of charge.

Jan Chapman RN

demonstrating Jello"brain" and

importance of wearing bicycle helmet

Report your Injury Prevention Activities Online

The injury prevention program reporting (Quarterly Report) has converted to an online format. All injury prevention volunteers and Injury Prevention Chairpersons (EICs) will now be able to submit their injury prevention activities at any time with a click of a few buttons.

WHY REPORT INJURY PREVENTION ACTIVITIES?

Reporting is more accessible for all injury prevention volunteers.

Assists your state in gaining recognition for all injury prevention activities.

Serves as a benchmark tool for injury prevention activities.

Offers ENA and each state up-to-the-minute information on Injury Prevention training activities any time during the year.

Provides a continuous needs assessment.

EIC's will continue to receive a report of all injury prevention activities reported within their state at the end of each quarter. Reporting deadlines will still remain as follows:

1^st Qtr:     Jan 1 - March 31

2^nd Qtr:    April 1 – June 30

3^rd Qtr:    July 1 – September 30

4^th Qtr:    October 1 – December 31

HOW TO REPORT YOUR INJURY PREVENTION ACTIVITIES?

The online reporting can be accessed on the ENA Web site http://www.ena.org/ by clicking on "Online Reporting" or by going directly to the following link: http://www.ena.org/members/reports/index.asp.

If you have any questions about the new online reporting system, please contact the ENA Injury Prevention Institute/EN CARE at 847/460-4112.