Becoming a new parent brings on a great deal of stress. Hospitals help insure parents transition well from the hospital to your new life at home. “Only 6.4% of parents had a correctly installed Child Safety Seat” (Pediatrics, 2000). Properly securing infant’s car seats is crucial in maintaining the wellbeing of children. “Any variable of car seat misuse, independently or in combination with another, will impact the integrity of the car seat and in turn affect the safety of the child traveling in the car seat” (Mittelstaedt, 2004). The Centennial Hills Hospital in Las Vegas, NV needs to make sure the car seat is installed properly in the vehicle, give expert knowledge to the parents, and provide follow up classes for other stages in the child’s
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Centennial Hills Hospital is not required by law to check whether or not your car seat is installed correctly. The discharge nurses make sure you have a car seat for the infant, but because of liability issues they are not required to make sure the newborn is strapped in correctly or the car seat physically installed efficiently. Good Morning America featured a news segment about car seat safety and how it is hard for parents to install car seats correctly. Amy from ABC News stated that 70% of car seats were installed incorrectly and it could have lead to an infant death if there was an accident (Kerley, 2015). Centennial Hills Hospital should provide expert knowledge about car seat installation and safety upon being discharged from the hospital. In order to provide expert knowledge a person would need to become certified as a child passenger restraint …show more content…
Why is it a need? Is it really the safest option even though it is the most expensive option? In the Ted Talks by Steven Levitt, Steven begins by telling a story of a little girl that died when she was two while she was in a car seat. He explained how she would also have died if she was in a regular seat belt. His logic was whether or not she was in a car seat or a regular seat belt the outcome would still have been the same. He was explaining that whether your cure of automobile crash is cheap or expensive your child can still die during a crash (Levitt, 2005). What he did not find out is if the car seat that the young girl died in was installed correctly. Logically there is no way a 5-point harness would not save more lives compared to a regular seat belt. In the Texas Public Health Journal they did a pilot study on car seat installations and the proper use of them. During their study they found “the use of child safety restraint systems has been shown to reduce the number of childhood fatalities from motor vehicle collisions by up to 70%” (Robertson, 2012). During the Ted Talks by Steven Levitt, he never mentioned the state of the car seat the young girl was in when she was killed in the car accident. Also the death rate is not completely eradicated when an infant is in a car seat, but it is significantly lower. To find a study that proves that a
Centennial Hills Hospital is not required by law to check whether or not your car seat is installed correctly. The discharge nurses make sure you have a car seat for the infant, but because of liability issues they are not required to make sure the newborn is strapped in correctly or the car seat physically installed efficiently. Good Morning America featured a news segment about car seat safety and how it is hard for parents to install car seats correctly. Amy from ABC News stated that 70% of car seats were installed incorrectly and it could have lead to an infant death if there was an accident (Kerley, 2015). Centennial Hills Hospital should provide expert knowledge about car seat installation and safety upon being discharged from the hospital. In order to provide expert knowledge a person would need to become certified as a child passenger restraint …show more content…
Why is it a need? Is it really the safest option even though it is the most expensive option? In the Ted Talks by Steven Levitt, Steven begins by telling a story of a little girl that died when she was two while she was in a car seat. He explained how she would also have died if she was in a regular seat belt. His logic was whether or not she was in a car seat or a regular seat belt the outcome would still have been the same. He was explaining that whether your cure of automobile crash is cheap or expensive your child can still die during a crash (Levitt, 2005). What he did not find out is if the car seat that the young girl died in was installed correctly. Logically there is no way a 5-point harness would not save more lives compared to a regular seat belt. In the Texas Public Health Journal they did a pilot study on car seat installations and the proper use of them. During their study they found “the use of child safety restraint systems has been shown to reduce the number of childhood fatalities from motor vehicle collisions by up to 70%” (Robertson, 2012). During the Ted Talks by Steven Levitt, he never mentioned the state of the car seat the young girl was in when she was killed in the car accident. Also the death rate is not completely eradicated when an infant is in a car seat, but it is significantly lower. To find a study that proves that a