- Hours
- 0 hours
- Code
- 20-1159046
- Duration
- 0 minutes
Contact Hour(s):
1.5 contact hour
Author:
Sarah Schulze, MSN, APRN, CPNP, PMHS, CLC
This peer-reviewed course is applicable to the following professions:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Athletic Trainer (AT/AL), Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Midwife (MW), Nursing Student, Occupational Therapist (OT), Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTA), Physical Therapist (PT), Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), Registered Nurse (RN)
Accreditations:
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), Board of Certification for Athletic Trainers (BOC)
State Approvals:
Alabama, Provider #ABNP1485; California BRN Provider #CEP # 13509, Florida Physical Therapy Association Approval: CE26-1159046, Nevada Board of Physical Therapy; New York State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy
Course Description:
This course discusses the fact that accidental injury is the current leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States. The purpose of this course is to review the most common types of injuries and their consequences, the nursing care of injured children, and anticipatory guidance for preventing injuries and keeping children safe.
Outcomes:
≥ 92% of participants will have a better understanding of the mechanism for childhood injury, associated risk factors, nursing care, and anticipatory guidance for injury prevention.
Objectives:
After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:
- State why accidental injuries are a pediatric health concern.
- List the risk factors for accidental injury based on age, gender, race, and other variables.
- Determine the appropriate anticipatory guidance for the prevention of childhood injury and death by suffocation, strangulation, and choking.
- Differentiate the risks of drowning based on a child’s age.
- Identify the age-appropriate anticipatory guidance for motor vehicle safety.
- Describe the various mechanisms of injury that lead to falls, based on age.
- Examine the spectrum of care utilized in poisonings and how to determine what treatment a child needs.
- Explain how to determine the stage and surface area percentage of a burn.
- Recognize the risk factors for firearm injury in children with guns in their home.
- Explain the risks of social media usage.
- Identify the red flags for when an injury may be intentional or abuse rather than accidental.
Disclosures: CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
CEUFast, Inc. is an AOTA Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID# 14031. This distant learning-independent activity is offered at 0.025 CEUs, Intermediate, Categories: OT Service Delivery, Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.