Are you interested in preventing injuries at home or your work place? Do you need to update your knowledge about injury prevention?

The basic certificate course is designed for any individual who provides injury prevention services. Individuals include but are not limited to: health care providers and educators, licensed childcare providers, emergency medical service personnel, risk managers, and representatives of community and consumer agencies.

Course Purpose

This certificate program presents information related to injury prevention. The course purpose is to prepare competent injury prevention practitioners to provide injury prevention services to the community. Although the focus of the course is on unintentional injury in Delaware, the course content is applicable to individuals who provide injury prevention services in other states and countries. The basic certificate course addresses core competencies defined by the National Injury and Violence Prevention Training Initiative.

Course Goals

Individuals who complete the basic certificate course will be able to:

• distinguish between intentional and unintentional injury using the public health framework.
• use existing injury data to explain the “who, when, where, what and how” of unintentional injuries.
• analyze risk behaviors, protective factors, and mechanisms of injury associated with the “why” of the most prevalent unintentional injuries.
• discover and use available resources for injury prevention interventions.
• implement appropriate injury prevention initiatives for target populations.
• evaluate the impact of injury prevention initiatives on injury prevention outcomes.
• develop partnerships with others involved in injury prevention.

Course Format

Each of the eight CD-ROM modules explains how to plan and implement strategies for preventing various types of injuries. Modules include: a pretest, content related to the public health approach and a mechanism of injury, case studies, resources to access via the course web site, and a summary of content. Following completion of the eight modules, participants will take an online multiple choice post test.

To earn 16.3 contact hours for nursing continuing education, you must achieve a passing score of 75% and complete an online program evaluation form. Certificates are mailed within two weeks of receipt of the completed post test and evaluation form.

Continuing education credit (16.3 contact hours for nursing/1.4 CEUs) is provided through Corexcel.

Corexcel is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).

Corexcel is also accredited through the State of Florida, Board of Nursing (provider no. FBN 2479) and the State of California, Board of Nursing (provider no. CEP 13687). Corexcel is an Authorized CEU Provider of the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Technology Requirements

Participants must have access to a computer with an Internet connection and CD-ROM drive. To view lectures on the CD-ROM, you must have RealPlayer® downloaded on your computer. For help on downloading, click on the following link. RealPlayer® help is available at: www.udel.edu/UMS/itv/realplayer

To view printable slides, as well as some additional resources, you must have Adobe Reader® downloaded on your computer. For help on downloading click on the following link: AdobeReader ®help is available at: www.lib.udel.edu/adobe

Distance learning and the University of Delaware
The University of Delaware has been offering distance learning courses since 1988 and is a national leader in the use of educational technology. Numerous awards recognize the University’s electronic campus and its achievements in technology and distance learning. UD Online distance learning courses capitalize on the University’s unparalleled campus technology network to support and enhance learning, enabling students to connect ideas, people, and information from around the world.

University of Delaware’s College of Health Sciences/Division of Special Programs
The Division of Special Program’s three-fold mission includes coordinating technology-based, distance education initiatives within the College of Health Sciences, developing and delivering professional continuing education programs serving the global healthcare community, and establishing educational partnerships with healthcare agencies and corporate visionaries. Through various distance delivery formats, including web, CD-ROM, DVD, video/videoconferencing, satellite, and podcasting, the Division strives to meet the diverse educational needs of healthcare practitioners in the 21st century.

In 2007, The Division of Special Programs received two awards from the Learning Resources Network, an international association of lifelong learning programming, for exemplary work in the field of life long learning - Exceptional Practice in Online Learning and Exceptional Practice in Website Design.

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Course Modules

Module 1
Course Overview and Introduction to the Public Health Framework with Examples of Various Types of Injuries

Module 2
Gathering Information and Data to Identify the Injury Problem - Falls

Module 3
Analyzing Data about Populations "At Risk" - Risk Patterns with Case Exemplars of Children, Hispanic Americans, and African Americans

Module 4
Using Injury Data to Identify and Select Intervention Strategies - Poisoning

Module 5
Developing an Action Plan to Prevent Injuries - Sports Injuries

Module 6
Implementing Interventions for Prevention of Injuries - Burn Injuries

Module 7
Evaluating and Revising Interventions - Drowning / Submersion Injuries

Module 8
Using a Dynamic Approach for Preventing Unintentional Injuries - Motor Vehicle Injuries

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