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Safety Education to all patient parents!!!

Posted by The Florida Chapter of NAPNAP on
Florida
The Florida Chapter of NAPNAP

Posted on the AANP smart brief...read below:

Parents, caregivers lack knowledge of child-safety hazards
Parents were able to identify only 47% of the potential safety hazards for young children in the home, while day-care workers identified only 37% and health professionals identified only 29% of the hazards. Parents found only 40% of hazards when asked to find those that would be problems for their own children.

 Yahoo!/HealthDay News (8/11)