SUMMER 16 NURS 440 GROUP 8 Home Safety Magazine

May – June 2016

TIPS FOR NEW PARENTS

YOUR GUIDE TO

FIRE PROOFING YOUR HOME 0

© 2016 by NURS 440 Group 8: Neltada Charlemagne, Tianna Laguna, Jun Jun Li & Ivana Lianto

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04| Overview:

letter from editors

15| Fire Safety

07| Infant suffocation

17| Poison control

09| Water safety

21| Equipment safety

10| Second hand smoke

22| Electrical safety

12| In the kitchen

24| CPR training

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Dear parents, We understand that your home may present you with some potential hazards to your children. But even when you think that you have removed all noticeable hazards, in reality, children can still stumble upon new hazards. You can keep your children safe by finding potential risks and remove or rearrange its placement.

This magazine is created to provide you with some information and some suggestions to ensure that your home is a child-friendly environment. The purpose is to reduce the number of incidents at home that can be easily prevented and promoting home safety for your children.

Our goal is to enable you to provide a safe environment for your children to play and explore.

Sincerely, Home Safety team editors

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v Most

suffocations occur at

vSuffocation remains the

home; play pens and cribs are

number one cause of death

major contributors.

for children under one year of

v Prevention

of unexpected Infant

age, and is often associated

death, including suffocation, is

with the sleep environment

one of the goals set for by

(Safetykids.org).

Healthy People 2020 (healthypeople.gov).

vThese death rate are 100% preventable!

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Infant Suffocation v

The safest sleep environment for infants is in a crib, on their backs (not their sides).

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Do not place cribs next to hanging drapes. Place the crib away from walls or hanging objects

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Avoid placing stuff animal and accessories in cribs.

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Avoid soft surfaces for sleep. Instead of extra blankets, use a sleep sac

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Make sure the slats of the crib are not space too far apart

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If you can fit a soda can in between them, so can your baby’s head

(Safetykids.org)

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Your home may have ponds, pool, bath tub, or even buckets of water that may present as danger to your children. Most of the time safety in regards to water relies on close supervision.

List some of the water land marks that are present in your home:

- For bath time safety, make sure your children are supervised at all times

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by an adult. Do not assign siblings to

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supervise bath time or allowing

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children to take bath independently without supervision.

If you have a pool or pond, you can install a fence or self-

Removed unused or

locking gate around the pool or

uncovered buckets of water

pond

Always use safety lock for hot water knob or hot water dispenser.

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Smoking is very dangerous to both you and

Did you know that third-hand smoke is

your child. Even though the child is not

also a danger to children? Circle the areas

inhaling the poisonous chemicals directly

where you think third-hand smoke can be

from the cigarette, the second hand smoke

found. a. in upholstery

they are breathing in carries about 4000

b. in hair

chemicals, with more than 50 of them

c. in walls

known to cause cancer (American

d. on the caregiver themselves

Academy of Pediatrics, 2015).”

e. all answers are correct **answer: e. all answers are correct

• Do not smoke around children! If you currently smoke, there are ways to quit.

Please refer to the website below to find ways to say goodbye to cigarettes forever!

• Have smoke free zones such as your car and your home. Do leave cigarettes or ashtrays out as children may grab them.

Smoking in your car can put your child at risk of third-hand smoke and driving with the windows down will blow the smoke into the faces of your children.

• Lastly, choose a babysitter who does not smoke. This will ensure that your child is safe from the dangers of smoke even when you are not with them.

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As you know, your child is very curious and can get around the house rather quickly. The kitchen is no place for a child as the stove is very hot and the cabinets and appliances have sharp corners and hard surfaces. Burns from a stove can vary in severity from first-degree to thirddegree. Would you know what to do if your child got burned?

TIPS for KITCHEN SAFETY • Use the backburners and turn the pot handles towards the center of

for BURN

the stove.

• Keep oven doors locked at all times and use stove knob covers.

• Use a safety gate to keep children out of the kitchen.

• take your child from the heat source immediately • remove clothes from the burned area • run cool water over the burn for at least 5 minutes, • “Do NOT apply ice, butter, or powder to the injury since this could aggravate it. And do NOT break any blisters since this makes the wound more vulnerable to infection (Whattoexpect, 2016).”

• Gently pat area dry and cover with sterile dressing or bandage • call doctor as soon as possible.

• If the burn is severe, call 911 immediately.

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• Smoke alarms save

lives. A working smoke alarm cuts

the chances of dying in a reported fire in half.

• They can be purchased at many locations and are fairly inexpensive.

• When properly installed and maintained, smoke alarms can play a vital role in reducing fire deaths and injuries.

• Smoke alarms should be purchased with intact label from a recognized testing laboratory.

• They should be tested monthly and replaced every ten years.

• (National Fire Protection Association, 2016)

Tips for

maintenance

• Smoke alarms should be installed outside every sleeping area and in every room.

• Install a smoke alarm in all rooms, halls, storage areas, finished attics, and basements, where temperatures normally remain between 40° F (4° C) and 100° F (38° C).

• Smoke alarms should be placed high up on wall or the best location is on ceilings and away from doors, windows, or any other areas of ventilation • If you install smoke alarm detector in a wrong spot, its response to smoke could be delayed or smoke alarm may not sound an alarm at all.

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(National Fire Protection Association, 2016)

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Tips for Some common household

Remove all common household

chemicals can present as a

chemicals from easy to reach

for your children. For example detergent liquid, pesticides

area.

Rearrange them in high places or locked cabinet

spray, sanitizer wipes, bleach,

Put child safety latch on doors

essential oils, etc.

or cabinet where you plan to

Can you list some of possible

put your chemicals

poisonous hazards at your home?

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Tips

Although being physically active is an essential part of total wellness, it is important to make sure that your children are not in harm’s way when it comes to workout equipment.

Did you know that there are over 25,000 child

injuries each year from

exercise equipment? This includes things like weights, stationary bikes, treadmills, and stair climbers (Haupt, 2012).

Children aged infant to adolescent are at risk. How can you keep your child

safe?

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It important for moms to learn CPR (any place, such as the Red Cross).

Parents can go to their nearest YMCA or other places for swimming lesson as well.)

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