Safety Assessment

1 Safety Assessment Children are at a greater risk of sustaining injuries from their home environments. The risk varies depending on the age or the developmental stage of the child. Common injuries associated with the home environment include choking, poisoning, burns, falls and cuts among others. It is therefore important to assess the child’s environment for safety depending on how the child interacts with the environment.

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2 For a six month old baby, the home environment is assessed for risks such as poisoning, cuts, burns and choking. At this developmental stage, the baby is able to crawl and therefore interacts with the environment more. Their safety risk is heightened by lack of understanding of things within their environment (Peden & Franklin, 2021). For a five year old, the assessment should include bicycle safety, pedestrian safety and water safety. All these can be assessed by use of the TIPP safety survey questionnaire.

The education plan and anticipatory guidance should equip parents with strategies to improve the safety of their environment. They should be made aware of what increases the risk of injury and measures to prevent injury (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). This can be achieved through intentional counseling for the parents. For a larger population, there is need to utilize communication tools such as social media, print media and public health sensitizations.

3 References Peden, A. E., & Franklin, R. C. (2021). Child Injury Prevention: It Is Time to Address the Determinants of Health. Children, 8(1), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/children8010046 Stanhope & Lancaster (2016). Public Health Nursing - Population-Centered Health Care in the Community. Evolve Resources for Public Health Nursing, 10th Edition Revised Reprint, (9th ed) St. Louis: MO: Elsevier Saunders. 9780323321532