NR 602 Week 4 Pediatric Pearl Case StudyScored A 2026-2027 (9pages)

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