Question

Develop a plan for how childhood injuries could be decreased by nurses in your community. Make sure you understand the following nursing concepts: a. Epidemiology b. The nursing process c. Critical thinking. d. Evidence-based practice.

Answer 1

Childhood injury reduction strategy by nurses:

1. Close supervision for children

2. Smoke alarm system

3. Keep medicine under lock and key

4. Use helmet during cycling

5. Protect child from abuse

6. Monitor child neglect and small treatment

7. Community education

8. Environment modification

9. Enact and enforce safety law

10. Emergency services in community

a) Epidemiology:

Its a branch of medicine deals with incident, distribution and possible control of disease and other factors relationship to health.

b) Nursing Process:

Nursing process is a scientific method make the nurses to provide quality of nursing care. It has five steps

Assessment

Nursing diagnosis

Goal

Intervention

Implementation

Evaluation

c). Critical thinking:

It is a objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to firm a judgment.

d) Evidence based practice:

Evidence based practice is a conscientious use of current best evidence in to clinical practice.