Injury Prevention Institute / ENCARE

Mission

To reduce injury and violence related to morbidity and mortality by developing, promoting, evaluating and disseminating programs for emergency health care professional and the community.

Programs

Alcohol Awareness Programs
Child Passenger Safety Technical Training Prevention
Gun Safety Program
Bicycle Safety

Updated call for SBIRT volunteers

ENA is currently recruiting nurse champions who are interested in having a positive impact on their community by promoting in the number of trauma related injuries with alcohol involvement. The SBIRT tool will be sent to 5,000 hospitals in the Spring of 2008. This tool will include:

Education Module for emergency health care professional
Motivational video
Power point presentation for nurse educators
Pocket guide
Fact sheet
Drinking agreement
Patient brochures and
Other resources

Many Champions are needed. Complete a SBIRT Champion Profile on the website www.ena.org/ipinstitute/SBIRT/Benefits.asp, contact the Injury Prevention Institute via email at ipinstitute@ena.org, or call 842-460-4112.

We welcome anyone interested in Injury Prevention. Together we can make a difference. You can get in touch with Alma Angeles on our Contact Us page.