MGH Guides: Safety and Injury Prevention: Safety & Injury Prevention

Safety & Injury Prevention

Here are a selection of Safety and Injury Prevention resources available in the Community Health library. We can't list everything we have here, so get in touch with us if you're looking for something specific! librarian@mghihp.edu

Web Resources

MedlinePlus Safety Portal
Collection of articles and informational materials on a variety of safety topics.
National Fire Protection Association Education Programs
Includes materials for Learn Not to Burn, Risk Watch, and Remember When.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Extensive collection of safety guides for specific products and more.
Injury Prevention and Control
From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Home and Recreational Safety
From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Injury Prevention Books

Preventing Injuries Injury Prevention Community Health Nursing

SAFE INJ PREVE SAFE INJ INJUR COM NURS COMM

Falls in Older People by Rein Tideiksaar
Call Number: ELD FALL FALLS
ISBN: 9781932529449
Publication Date: 2010-05-18
Presenting evidence-based practice throughout, this easy-to-read manual is a comprehensive guide to preventing and managing falls in hospitals and long-term care settings. Now in its fourth edition, the award-winning guide explores the internal and external causes of falls, analyzes their consequences, provides clinical assessments for actual falls as well as risks for falling, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to falls management.
Safety Skills Reader W/ PDF by Tom Kinney
Call Number: SAFE INJ SKILLS
ISBN: 9781578616565
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Safety Skills Reader features twenty-six illustrated stories covering essential everyday safety skills. Each story is wonderfully illustrated in a graphic novel style using adult characters with text written at a third grade reading level, making it ideal for transition students with development disabilities.
Injury Prevention in Children by David H. Stone
ISBN: 9781906716257
Publication Date: 2011-07-11
Injury, unintentional or intentional, is the largest single cause of mortality in children and young people. Although the subject has been neglected in the past, governments, professionals and public health agencies around the world now recognize the huge toll of avoidable suffering and expenditure that injuries cause.

Medication Safety + Management

Worksheets and Brochures

Medication Management: Lock Box and Timer Pill Box/Bottles
Call Number: CHR MED PILL MGMT (Borrow from the Library)

Tracking Medications
Worksheet from the National Institute of Health to help identify and track medications
Medications' Effect on Older Adult Brain Functions
Brochure discussing the cognitive side effects of medications
Safe Use of Medicines for Older Adults
Information for older adults from NIA

Evidence

Agreeing on global research priorities for medication safety: an international prioritisation exercise.
Sheikh, Aziz, Igor Rudan, Kathrin Cresswell, Neelam Dhingra-Kumar, Mei Lee Tan, Minna L. Häkkinen, Liam Donaldson, and Mei Lee Tan. 2019. “Agreeing on Global Research Priorities for Medication Safety: An International Prioritisation Exercise.” Journal of Global Health 9 (1): 1–11.
Improving medication safety through implementation of medication error reporting systems in different medical specialities.
Abuelsoud, Nermeen Nabeel. 2018. “Improving Medication Safety through Implementation of Medication Error Reporting Systems in Different Medical Specialities.” Journal of Pharmacy Practice & Research 48 (6): 537–42.
Pharmacy Educators' Knowledge of Medication Safety and Their Perception Toward Its Integration into the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum in Saudi Arabia.
Alkatheri, Abdulmalik M., Rami Bustami, Abdulkareem M. Albekairy, Hind Almodaimegh, Sahar Alghamdi, Shemylan Alharbi, Nabil Khalidi, John E. Murphy, and Amjad M. Qandil. 2017. “Pharmacy Educators’ Knowledge of Medication Safety and Their Perception Toward Its Integration into the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum in Saudi Arabia.” American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 81 (2): 1–8.
Rx for Addiction and Medication Safety (RAMS-PEER): Evaluation of an Education and Peer Program on Opioid Misuse.
Sun, Tianyu, Ashley L Buchanan, Jeffrey P Bratberg, Emily Patry, and Kelly L Matson. 2020. “Rx for Addiction and Medication Safety (RAMS-PEER): Evaluation of an Education and Peer Program on Opioid Misuse.” Preventing Chronic Disease 17 (May): E37.
Successful implementation of a medication safety program for Aboriginal Health Practitioners in rural Australia.
Khalil, Hanan. 2019. “Successful Implementation of a Medication Safety Program for Aboriginal Health Practitioners in Rural Australia.” Australian Journal of Rural Health 27 (2): 158–63.

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