Running Head: PEDIATRIC CLINICAL PEARL CASE 1
STUDY
Pediatric Clinical Pearl Case Study Assignment
Chamberlain University
NR 602: Primary Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family
Practicum
, 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
Negative
with prescribed anxiolytic medication around her son and she also
What did you see
said that her son has eaten the cigarettes left lying around the house.
that was
The mother smokes inside the house and drinks alcohol as well.
inappropriate?
Mother is clueless about the 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
Pertinent Positive
smoking inside the house that is served by the same air conditioning
What did you see
unit. Mother keep the phone number to the poison control center handy
that was
in her contacts list
appropriate?
Guidelines or
A child who is exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke in a closed
Recommendations
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 -
STUDY
Pediatric Clinical Pearl Case Study Assignment
Chamberlain University
NR 602: Primary Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family
Practicum
, 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
Negative
with prescribed anxiolytic medication around her son and she also
What did you see
said that her son has eaten the cigarettes left lying around the house.
that was
The mother smokes inside the house and drinks alcohol as well.
inappropriate?
Mother is clueless about the 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
Pertinent Positive
smoking inside the house that is served by the same air conditioning
What did you see
unit. Mother keep the phone number to the poison control center handy
that was
in her contacts list
appropriate?
Guidelines or
A child who is exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke in a closed
Recommendations
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 -
