Publication date: June 2024
Source: Social Science & Medicine, Volume 351
Author(s): Daniel C. Semenza, Ian A. Silver, Richard Stansfield, Patricia Bamwine
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School Nurses’ Role in Reducing Firearm Injuries and Deaths
This article discuss the important role school nurses can play in addressing responsible firearm storage and promoting safety within schools. By viewing the problem through a public health lens, school nurses can make a significant impact on reducing violence and creating safer environments.
Healthcare’s role in reducing gun violence
Nurses and providers can make a difference in reducing firearm injury in their communities.
Firearm Violence: A Global Priority for Nursing Science
This article is to frame firearm violence as a health and public health problem, to illustrate the magnitude of the problem, to examine factors that increase the risk to be injured by a firearm, or conversely, that confer protection, and to identify relevant priority areas for nursing science.
Free course to help health care providers reduce gun violence
The BulletPoints Project at UC Davis Health has launched a free online continuing education course to help physicians and other health care providers reduce gun violence. Although it is geared for clinicians, anyone can sign up.
The role of nurses in firearm safety
The perspective and experience of nurses and the nursing organizations that serve them can contribute to the national conversation about gun violence and firearm safety
Firearm Injury Prevention and Patient Safety: Online Course
ED nurses often provide care for patients with known preventable injuries such as those caused by a firearm. To address this widespread phenomenon, ENA in partnership with American Academy of Pediatrics developed a package of educational offerings focused on strategies to improve safety in this patient population.
The role of health and mental health care providers in gun violence prevention.
This article reviews developmental risk factors for involvement in youth gun violence, as well as evidence-based community programs to prevent gun violence. We then discuss ways in which health and mental health care providers can prevent youth gun violence and promote safety.
School Nurses Can Reduce Firearm Injuries and Deaths
The most effective approach to creating safe and supportive school environments requires a comprehensive, coordinated effort including school-wide, district-wide, and community-wide strategies. School nurses, healthcare partners embedded in school communities, can guide these efforts. This article reviews data on school located gun violence through a public health lens, as well as outlines a framework for levels of prevention, including downstream, midstream, and upstream strategies.
Pediatric Hospitalists at the Front Line of Gun Violence Prevention: Every Patient Encounter Is an Opportunity to Promote Safe Gun Storage
By adopting the mind-set of screening each child for unsecured guns in the home during every encounter and providing safe storage counseling, pediatric hospitalists can contribute to the medical community’s response to the epidemic of gun violence in our communities.