Summary of Teaching /Learning Interaction on Accident Prevention/Safety Promotion for the Parent of Four Month Old Infant
This teaching and learning focused basically on the environmental secondhand smoke on infants. Young adult woman of about 28 year old African American and her daughter of four months old were involved in the teaching and learning experience. Her name is Tonya and her daughter’s name is Casandra, a single parent with part-time job at one of the grocery store. She only finished high school, according to her; she is still contemplating of going back to college. According to Ms. Tonya and my observable, the child looks healthy. I give details of the secondhand smoke and the effects on the babies. Ms. Tonya admitted she smokes, but denied …show more content…
Tonya feels reluctant and very obdurate as she claimed that she does not smoke beside or around her daughter. Secondhand smoke was defined and is similarly acknowledged as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), that is, passive smoke, or involuntary smoke, which is expelled to the air as soon as tobacco is burning end, is exhale out by the smoker. Cigarettes, cigars, and pipes release toxic secondhand smoke (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) California Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.). Contact with secondhand smoke declines lung effectiveness and weakens lung function in infants and children. It aggravates the occurrence and severity of infant asthma. It also exacerbates sinusitis, rhinitis, cystic fibrosis, and chronic respiratory problems like cough, bronchitis and pneumonia. In 1992 study showed that 150,000 to 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections occurred yearly in infants and children under 18 months old and resulted in about 15,000 hospitalizations (American Academy of Otolaryngology— Head and Neck Surgery,
This teaching and learning focused basically on the environmental secondhand smoke on infants. Young adult woman of about 28 year old African American and her daughter of four months old were involved in the teaching and learning experience. Her name is Tonya and her daughter’s name is Casandra, a single parent with part-time job at one of the grocery store. She only finished high school, according to her; she is still contemplating of going back to college. According to Ms. Tonya and my observable, the child looks healthy. I give details of the secondhand smoke and the effects on the babies. Ms. Tonya admitted she smokes, but denied …show more content…
Tonya feels reluctant and very obdurate as she claimed that she does not smoke beside or around her daughter. Secondhand smoke was defined and is similarly acknowledged as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), that is, passive smoke, or involuntary smoke, which is expelled to the air as soon as tobacco is burning end, is exhale out by the smoker. Cigarettes, cigars, and pipes release toxic secondhand smoke (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) California Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.). Contact with secondhand smoke declines lung effectiveness and weakens lung function in infants and children. It aggravates the occurrence and severity of infant asthma. It also exacerbates sinusitis, rhinitis, cystic fibrosis, and chronic respiratory problems like cough, bronchitis and pneumonia. In 1992 study showed that 150,000 to 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections occurred yearly in infants and children under 18 months old and resulted in about 15,000 hospitalizations (American Academy of Otolaryngology— Head and Neck Surgery,