ENVIRONMRNTAL FACTORS AND HEALTH PROMOTION PRESENTATION: ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROMOTION FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF INFANTS NRS 434
ENVIRONMRNTAL FACTORS AND HEALTH PROMOTION PRESENTATION: ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROMOTION FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF INFANTS NRS 434
Tobacco contains over 7,000 harmful substances that can affect infants if inhaled due to polluted air through smoke, especially secondhand smoke. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control asserts that about seventy of these substances can cause cancer. Due to their level of development, infants are vulnerable to this smoke and get disproportionate effects (CDC, 2020). Their developing lungs and other respiratory organs become susceptible to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. The essence of this presentation is to describe the harmful effects of secondhand smoke on infants and offer a health promotion plan to address the issue and ways to enhance overall health and wellbeing of the infants. The presentation also makes recommendations on how to prevent accidental events due to smoking and resources for parents in community to enhance overall infant safety.
Secondhand smoke is involuntary smoke inhaled by people in different environments. Referred to as environmental, secondhand smoke presents several harmful effects to the affected because of the thousand dangerous chemicals that it contains. Smoking during pregnancy leads to close to one thousand deaths each year. Health conditions associated with secondhand smoke among adults include lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke. Infants remain at the greatest risk for secondhand smoke because of the negative effects that it has on them (CDC, 2020). These include increased chances of health infections and respiratory complications due to their developing lungs.
Secondhand smoke causes several health problems in infants and children (CDC). These include more regular and severe asthma attacks, respiratory infections, and ear infections. More fundamentally, infants exposed to secondhand smoke are more susceptible to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Children, including infants, get exposed to secondhand smoke mainly at home (CDC, 2020b). Further, infants exposed to the secondhand smoke are susceptible to their dangerous effects like adults. The CDC says that children who live in homes where smoking is permitted have increased levels of cotinine (a biological marker of secondhand smoke exposure) than those who live in homes that do not allow smoking.
Women exposed to secondhand smoke while pregnant have increased chances getting lower birth weight babies. As such, these babies are weaker and have increased risk for many health problems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2020) posits that babies whose mothers smoke when pregnant or those exposed to the smoke after birth have weaker lungs than other babies and this increases the risk for different health complications. Secondhand smoke exposure causes acute lower respiratory infections that include bronchitis and pneumonia in young children and infants. Children with asthma experience more severe and frequent attacks due to secondhand smoke. Children and infants exposed to secondhand smoke have increased risk for ear infections and are more likely to require an operation for ear tube for drainage.
Health promotion plans are a critical component of attaining positive aspects of primary care among affected populations. In this case, the health promotion plan for secondhand smoke that impacts infants is essential in allowing parents and care givers reduce exposure and protect the affected infants. As illustrated through literature, secondhand smoke has a host of effects that are detrimental to the overall health of infants and even smoking adults and nonsmokers (Golechha, 2017). The essence of this health promotion plan is to reduce the risk of exposure and determine interventions that can help mitigate the problem. These include smoking cessation among other interventions that will reduce potential exposure. The plan also entails providing education and information to parents who smoke on the negative effects of their behaviors to their infants.
Assessment Description
The growth, development, and learned behaviors that occur during the first year of infancy have a direct effect on the individual throughout a lifetime. For this assignment, research an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants and develop a health promotion that can be presented to caregivers.
Create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint health promotion, with speaker notes, that outlines a teaching plan. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice over or a video. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for references at the end.
In developing your PowerPoint, take into consideration the health care literacy level of your target audience, as well as the demographic of the caregiver/patient (socioeconomic level, language, culture, and any other relevant characteristic of the caregiver) for which the presentation is tailored.
Include the following in your presentation:
- Describe the selected environmental factor. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
- Create a health promotion plan that can be presented to caregivers to address the environmental factor and improve the overall health and well-being of infants.
- Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
- Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. At least three scholarly resources are required. Two of the three resources must be peer-reviewed and no more than 6 years old.
- Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.
You are required to cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.
Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
Refer to the resource, “Loom,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on recording your presentation.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
