Pediatric Clinical Pearl Case Study Assignment
week 4 NR 602
PEDIATRIC CLINICAL PEARL CASE STUDY
, 2
Category Alcohol/ Substance abuse
The mother displayed a very unhealthy, careless, and unsafe demeanor
Issue - Pertinent around her toddler son, for example, the mother left an open container with
Negative prescribed anxiolytic medication around her son and she also said that her
What did you see son has eaten the cigarettes left lying around the house. The mother smokes
that was inside the house and drinks alcohol as well. Mother is clueless about the
inappropriate? developmental stages and what types of toys or verbal instructions a child
this age can do or perform.
Mother is aware of not smoking inside her son’s bedroom but yet is smoking
Pertinent Positive inside the house that is served by the same air conditioning unit. Mother keep
the phone number to the poison control center handy in her contacts list
What did you see
that was
appropriate?
Guidelines or
Recommendations A child who is exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke in a closed room
could be compared to having inhaled the toxins as if that child has smoked
ten cigarettes, it is a fact that children breathing is faster than adults and this
makes children more prone to inhaling higher amounts of toxins into lungs
that are developing resulting in increased respiratory infection s and other
conditions such as SIDS, asthma, pneumonia and ear infections.
References HEALTH EFFECTS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE ON CHILDREN -
week 4 NR 602
PEDIATRIC CLINICAL PEARL CASE STUDY
, 2
Category Alcohol/ Substance abuse
The mother displayed a very unhealthy, careless, and unsafe demeanor
Issue - Pertinent around her toddler son, for example, the mother left an open container with
Negative prescribed anxiolytic medication around her son and she also said that her
What did you see son has eaten the cigarettes left lying around the house. The mother smokes
that was inside the house and drinks alcohol as well. Mother is clueless about the
inappropriate? developmental stages and what types of toys or verbal instructions a child
this age can do or perform.
Mother is aware of not smoking inside her son’s bedroom but yet is smoking
Pertinent Positive inside the house that is served by the same air conditioning unit. Mother keep
the phone number to the poison control center handy in her contacts list
What did you see
that was
appropriate?
Guidelines or
Recommendations A child who is exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke in a closed room
could be compared to having inhaled the toxins as if that child has smoked
ten cigarettes, it is a fact that children breathing is faster than adults and this
makes children more prone to inhaling higher amounts of toxins into lungs
that are developing resulting in increased respiratory infection s and other
conditions such as SIDS, asthma, pneumonia and ear infections.
References HEALTH EFFECTS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE ON CHILDREN -
