The Georgia ENA Injury Prevention Committee extends the objectives and mission of the national ENA Injury Prevention Institute at the local community level.  Our mission is to reduce injury and violence-related morbidity and mortality by promoting, evaluating and disseminating injury and violence prevention programs for emergency health care professionals and the community.  We are committed to reducing the number of preventable injuries through public education, professional training courses and legislative advocacy.  Injury Prevention Institute volunteers educate the young, the adult, and the mature adult communities. As of September, 2008 there were nearly 335 emergency nurses, EMTs, and law enforcement officers that have been trained to teach the ENA injury prevention programs in their local Georgia communities.  Injury Prevention volunteers do make a difference…one life at a time!

Are you are interested in becoming an injury prevention volunteer?  There are many benefits of this role:

  Help reduce preventable injuries and deaths

  Gain state/national recognition

  Influence public opinion and policy

  Be a leader

  Be a positive role model

  Network with colleagues and community leaders

  Build local/state/national/collaboration

  Showcase your local/state initiatives nationally

  Become an injury prevention resource specialist with ENA

  Develop public relations and public policy skills

  Gain speaking and teaching skills

  Develop administrative skills (i.e., finance, management, research, grant writing, organizational development)

  Receive Injury Prevention training

  Receive educational materials

“Many nurse volunteers report that educating children, young adults and the elderly about injury prevention gives them a great sense of satisfaction and serves as a powerful stress reliever.”

Programs of the IP Institute:

Alcohol Prevention Education                              Safety Education

Choices for Living                                                                       Bike & Helmet Safety

Alcohol Screening (SBIRT) Toolkit                                         Child Passenger Safety

Learning to Care                                                                          Gun Safety: It’s NO Accident

This program has been discontinued.

Healthy Aging Education

SAFER Medication Use

Stand Strong for Life

For more information on how you can become an injury prevention volunteer please contact one of these qualified Georgia Injury Prevention Instructors below:

ATTENTION GA INJURY PREVENTION INSTRUCTORS:  Please report all your injury prevention activities via email to the GA IP Chairman.   Please include the following details:  name of IP program, facility name of where the IP program was presented, number of participants, date of the program, and all names of IP volunteers involved in the program.  Please report any other injury prevention outreach activities as well.  The GA IP Chairman is responsible for submitting quarterly reports to the national ENA Injury Prevention Institute. 

If you would like to know any other information about the Georgia ENA Injury Prevention Committee and its activities please contact:

Betsy Jordan, RN, CEN

GA Injury Prevention Committee Chairman

bbjordan@ppmh.org

229-869-2229

Introduction:

            The Georgia ENA has not had an active nurse practice committee for over a decade. This year we are trying to revitalize this committee.  I am new to this committee as will all of the committee members be.  What I am including in this writing is not the official definitions, vision or plan of the committee but my vision for wanting to revitalize the committee.

Definition:

            What does a nurse practice committee do?  It is to promote excellence in Emergency Nursing practice.  I envision this to include identifying areas of Emergency Nursing practice that Emergency Nurses across the state of Georgia are concerned about and providing resources for our members.

Vision:

            To examine practice issues in Emergency Nursing of concern to our members in Georgia. These practice issues will be researched using literature and regulatory searches and research projects to develop and recommend evidence based best practice guidelines for consideration for use by Emergency Nurses across Georgia.

            A long term vision is for this committee to provide mentorship.  The committee would be available to mentor our members to do research, to educate their co-workers, to present at conferences, to publish and to provide assistance on questions related to nursing practice.

Action Plan: