Chamberlain College of Nursing - NR 602 NRNR 602 week 4

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Alcohol/Substance Use 1. The mother states she takes anxiety pills around her son and will leave the pills unattended around her child. The mother also smokes in the home and often misplaces her ci... garettes, and one time her child was chewing on a cigarette. She carries alcohol in her purse and is requesting a sleeping medication to give her child. 2. Mother states she does not smoke in the child's room. She also states last time her child chewed on a cigarette she called poison controlled whose number is in her phone. 3. Those who are exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of lung cancer and other lung diseases. Children who are around secondhand smoke especially have it tough because it contributes to asthma as well as ear infections. Children of parents who smoke also have an increase likelihood of becoming a smoker themselves. 4. Section on Tobacco Control. (2015). Clinical practice policy to protect children from tobacco, nicotine [Show More]

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