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 educational materials
Receive Injury Prevention training
“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.”
Alcohol Prevention Education
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Safety Education |
| Choices for Living |
Bike & Helmet Safety |
| Alcohol Screening (SBIRT) Toolkit |
Child Passenger Safet |
| Learning to Care |
Gun Safety: It’s NO Accident |
This program has been discontinued.
For more information on how you can become an injury prevention volunteer please contact one of these qualified Georgia Injury Prevention Instructors below:
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Deana Allen |
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Tina Frey |
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Christopher Hatcher |
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Rebecca Holmes |
rhrnholmes@hotmail.com |
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Betsy Jordan |
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Sharon Knox |
sharonnp@bellsouth.net |
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Maureen Merson |
nursemers@aol.com |
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Sonya Self |
slself@gohs.state.ga.us, sselfern@eathlink.net |
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Sabrina Whittenberger |
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
229-869-2229
