Project Assignment
Population : The elderly
Communicator: Sidney
Topic: Injury prone (Nursing home, diseases, trauma, statistics
Title: Fall and Injury Prevent for the Elderly patients
Set age group: 60-75
Gender: Both male and female
Ethnicity: will briefly discuss how other ethnicities are correlates with this data
Goals and Objectives:
1. Reduce injuries in nursing homes
2. Educational programs for employers
3. Know signs and symptoms for serious trauma minor or huge
4. Documentation that prevention is key (objective)
5. Set specific needs for elderly, identify program focus
Come up with time line for statistics
Source: chapter 10 fall and injury prevention
Needs:
• Set more goals and objectives
• Data
• Basis of what We want to do for our program
• What moto will we use?
Program Ideas:
1. Offer a class over prevention
2. Send trained professional to admit training
3. Inform patients on a way to prevent falling
4. Certification of test after class
5. Proper equipment (gate belts, lifts, rails, and walkers)
6. Conduct survey than evaluate the results
7. Signs indicating reminders of safety tips
8. Cautious of prescribed medicines and,diets that they have
9. Assess patient risk
Implementation:
*precede procedure method
Precede: help with measurable objectives for projects
Proceed- monitor quality of methods to keep program going
Overview- program cost X amount
Whats 1st?
1. Send trained professional
2. Educate the workers + certifications
3. Assess patient needs
4. Inform patients over information
5. Assess what equipment is needed
6. Safety tips are posted
7. Look at increase + decrease of falls (stats)
8. Survey the effectiveness of programs
• Go in depth of how survey results affect the program and ETC
• Survey should go to nursing home administrator
• Make a short survey
Part 1. Program assessment- someone (Two Slides of power point)
Part 2. Planning- someone (Two Slides of power point)
Part 3. Goals and objectives- someone (Two Slides of power point)
Part 4. Development and implementation- someone (Two Slides of power point)
Part 5. Evaluating the results- Me : ( One page , One source And Two Slides of power point)
Text Book: An Introduction to- Community and Public Health by James F. McKenzie and Rober R. Pinger, Eigth Edition.
Chapter 5: Community Organizing/Building and Health Promotion Programming
Chapter 10: Community and Public Health and Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Attachment:- Attachments.rar