Study
Week 4 Clinical Pearl Case
Clinical Pearl Issue # 1: Alcohol/ Substance Abuse
Category: Alcohol/ Substance Abuse
Issue-Pertinent Negative: The mother states that she takes anxiety pills around her son and
will leave the pills unattended around her child. The mother also
smokesin the home and often misplaces her cigarettes. She states
that one time her son was chewing on one of her cigarettes. The
mother took a bottle of alcohol out of her purse and is also asking
for a sleeping medication to give her child.
Pertinent Positive: The mother states that she does not smoke in the child’s room.
She also states that the last time that her child chewed on a
cigarette she called poison control; whose phone number is in her
phone.
Guidelines or
Recommendations: 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 people
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