Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion (Coursework Sample)

Environmental Factors: Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion
For Parents and Caregivers of Infants
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Environmental Factors: Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion
For Parents and Caregivers of Infants
As much as a society would like to live by the thought it has probably evaluated all the possible aspects that pose a threat to the infant life, it is still left venerable to factors which if not eyed carefully, will continue hiking infant mortality in a level that will be too late to offer a remedy. Such factor is indoor residential air. Dangerous chemical compounds such as carbon monoxide, lead, pesticides, radon, and a vast category of volatile organic chemical compounds (Davis, 20007) are constantly being flash into the air that these infants are inhaling. Therefore, if at all the society will want to expand mortality of their young ones, it better first look keenly the nature of the atmosphere it is breeding.
Part I: Indirect Care Experience
Hazardous Effects of Unclean Indoor Residential Air
In that case, it is important to sway light on the associated hazards. Talk of carbon monoxide and be provided with an unending evidence of the number of deaths that this gas has caused. The latter blocks the body’s ability to intake oxygen leaving the body organs highly deoxygenated which leads to a slow and calm death. On the other hand, medical facilities have tested and proved that gaseous forms of metals such as mercury, lead, and radon are direct neurotoxins to the body. Exposure to such gases have been linked with direct reduced capability of the brain, the Intelligence Quotient of the infants, memory ability, learning abilities, delinquency, asthma and even adoption of aggressive behaviors (Ramchev at al., 2004).
Recommendations
It is quite vivid that these gaseous forms of toxins are pretty dangerous. As a matter of fact, health institutions rank the pollution of residential air as one of the frontline factors causing injuries and exacerbating illnesses, with the most venerable population being children, pregnant women an most of all, infants. On the contrary, statistics provided by world health organization (WHO, 2002) states that the larger percentage (over 90%) of the population spend their time in daycare, home or workplace. Therefore, and considering the rising technology that increasing emphasize use of industrially processed chemicals, chances of encountering clean are thinning every day.
Therefore, even though the nursing community may try its best to provide educative lectures and enlighten the community, it is the primary role of every member in the society to get environmental cautious. In that case, prevention becomes the best medicine of all these risks. It would be polite if householders tried to employ preventive measures such as not to use stoves and gas ovens for heat and routinely clean and properly dispose of any susceptible organic materials in the surrounds as well as avoiding unvented gas space heaters.
Part II: Direct Care Experience
Summary
Clearly, the above is an absolute teaching the need to be integrated into the society’s day to day health handling. Taking a visit to one of the local child-care center and presenting the above pamphlet to one of the foster parents, it became very clear that it is true that the society is greatly neglecting the probability that air pollution is one of the primary death and illness causes in young children.
The foster mother is an elite, middle aged mother and literate enough no acknowledge...